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Thiel: PayPal Scaled From 100k to 1M Users in 10 Weeks
“The customer base was growing at sort of a five to seven percent daily compounding rate. It had hit a 100,000 users in, on February third, 2000, and got to a million by mid-April of 2000.”
Thiel: PayPal Raised $100M Days Before Dot-Com Crash
“And so we closed on, yeah, we closed on a hundred million on Friday, March 31st, and the following Monday, the bottom fell out of the market.”
Thiel: PayPal reached break-even in September 2001, first post-9/11 IPO filing
“We got to break even in September, 2001. We were the first company in the U.S. To file after nine 11, filed end of September.”