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Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:08:54 David Rosenthal Member of the PayPal mafia.
- ▶ 1:11:33 David Rosenthal To another member of the PayPal mafia, Elon Musk.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01:56 David Rosenthal In early, 2005, three PayPal employees, part of the PayPal mafia, actually fairly junior employees at PayPal,
- ▶ 1:02:06 David Rosenthal Chad Hurley, Javid Kareem, and Steve Chen leave PayPal and create YouTube.
- ▶ 1:03:39 David Rosenthal So not only were they part of the PayPal team and PayPal Mafia, like, they had the best
- ▶ 1:08:29 David Rosenthal So it was basically incubated at Sequoia when the three founders left PayPal.
- ▶ 1:08:39 Ben Gilbert Because Ruloff knew them from PayPal.
- ▶ 2:25:07 David Rosenthal Powering companies like PayPal, RAMP, Under Armour, Notion, Runway, Cursor, and many more.
- ▶ 2:27:36 David Rosenthal Would also later be the office that PayPal
The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bank · Acquired
- ▶ 26:17 Ben Gilbert Vercel calls this the AI cloud, purpose-built for the next era of apps and already in production across companies like Under Armour, PayPal, Notion, and AI startups like Runway, Decagon, and BrowserBase.
- ▶ 27:54 David Rosenthal They have pre-built integrations with Gmail and Google Docs, and also services like Jira, Asana, Linear, Square, PayPal, as well as custom integrations for any internal tool that you have.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:21:09 Ben Gilbert So if you want to learn more about what Vercel can do for AI and web development at your company, join customers like Runway, Supreme, PayPal, Ramp, NerdWallet, Leonardo AI, Zapier, and Scale AI.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:41:14 Ben Gilbert And join customers like OpenAI, Granola, Runway, Supreme, Chick-fil-A, Ramp, PayPal, Under Armour, and NerdWallet.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:25:06 Ben Gilbert I worked with this guy at PayPal.
- ▶ 1:25:08 David Rosenthal My old colleague from PayPal, who actually, as luck would have it, is thinking about starting his own venture capital fund.
- ▶ 1:26:02 David Rosenthal And of course, PayPal has its own crazy history where you can understand why Peter would arrive at this conclusion, but he really was, like, maybe the only person in Silicon Valley that hit that Venn diagram that I talked about a minute…
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:58:53 David Rosenthal I mean, you could use PayPal, I guess.
- ▶ 3:19:30 David Rosenthal and yeah, you know, PayPal and all that, but that would have been a long slog if PayPal had to get an adoption for all payments on the internet to happen.
- ▶ 3:19:39 Ben Gilbert Which, by the way, PayPal is on a shockingly large number of websites today.
- ▶ 3:19:44 Ben Gilbert PayPal has a lot of market power because they
- ▶ 3:19:48 Ben Gilbert They are deep in terms of people's preferred payment method, which was something I've been kind of blind to.
- ▶ 3:20:01 Ben Gilbert PayPal's an especially interesting company right now because they're strategically pretty well positioned, but they're going through a leadership transition, and so you don't actually know what the new strategy is going to be yet.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:22:51 David Senra I was like, man, Jimmy Sony would be great to do a sessions with just because he's got this historical knowledge of PayPal, PayPal being so important to like Silicon Valley history.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 1:27:43 David Rosenthal PayPal doesn't exist at this point.
- ▶ 1:28:41 David Rosenthal And that's what leaves the window open for PayPal a couple of years later.
- ▶ 1:28:46 David Rosenthal There were so many points in time where like the window should have closed for PayPal to be started.
- ▶ 1:33:04 Ben Gilbert But after going up and down and buying PayPal and divesting PayPal, after all this, do you know where it is today, David?
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 2:18:52 David Rosenthal Now eBay did not have PayPal at this point in time.
- ▶ 2:19:16 David Rosenthal There's no PayPal yet.
- ▶ 2:19:54 David Rosenthal If that had gone otherwise, I don't know about PayPal.
- ▶ 2:19:56 David Rosenthal Like, there's probably no PayPal.
- ▶ 2:52:10 Ben Gilbert It's a little bit weird to look at that number because it comes, you know, it's got the divestiture of PayPal in it.
- ▶ 3:07:31 David Rosenthal Also, like, just wild that, like, if Amazon and Bezos hadn't acquired accept.com, like, probably no PayPal, which means Elon doesn't have the money, which means.
- ▶ 4:04:04 Ben Gilbert PayPal, it worked.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:35:27 Brendan Eich You know, PayPal is going to do their own stable coin or whatever.
Complexity Investing & Semiconductors with NZS Capital (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 29:09 Brinton Johns Um, they had PayPal, uh, and really you weren't paying for any of PayPal.
- ▶ 29:24 Brinton Johns PayPal ended up being great.
- ▶ 29:30 Ben Gilbert So in that situation, you've got a fairly resilient business, or the, the hope is that the marketplace is a resilient business, and then the PayPal is the out of the money option that you sort of have that's being valued at zero, but…
Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:28:32 Ben Gilbert Or even going back to our eBay episode with PayPal, like, how good of an idea was it to do the spinoff for shareholder value?