David Marcus
person on 7 shows · 7 statements across 3 episodes · said 16 times in 11 episodes since 2016
20VC 6 
All-In 3 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 2 
Lenny's Podcast 2 
American Optimist 1 
My First Million 1 
the a16z Podcast 1
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2025 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- How AI Might Solve the Alien Mystery: Thought Leader's Paradox · Joe Lonsdale
- Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Kevin Weil: Lessons from Leading Product at Instagram & Twitter | 20VC #934 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Solana Billionaires, MFM Goes Viral on TikTok, Right to Be Forgotten, and More
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7 statements about David Marcus, every show
Lonsdale: PayPal's $2,500 misinformation fine red-pilled former CEO David Marcus
“PayPal, they threatened to take away 2500 dollars out of your account if you were caught inciting hatred or misinformation, which they were defining as they wanted. This actually red pilled the former PayPal CEO, David Marcus, who ended up speaking out on the …”
Marcus: Naivety is essential for founders to achieve the seemingly impossible
“Oh, of course. It's essential because if you know too much for your own good, then you know all the things that are not possible. And that basically prevents you from doing the things that everyone else think are impossible. And that's one of the hallmark of e…”
Marcus: Acquirer of his first startup went bankrupt during his stock lockup
“We sold the company to a company that was listed on the NASDAQ was worth about Three, four billion dollars, which at the time was a lot. And then, you know, we did that deal. We took a stock payment for the acquisition and I had a 12 months lockup to get, you …”
Marcus: Mid-sized European markets are the worst size for scaling tech startups
“But the reason I think it's harder is because, you know, if you start, let's say in France, then you have an addressable market that is, you know, basically the worst size, right? Because it's actually too big for you to branch out early. But too small for you…”
PayPal launched its first hardware product within six months under Marcus
“And in the span of six months or less, we basically had our product in the market, which was the first hardware product that PayPal had shipped.”
Marcus intentionally shocked PayPal's culture to force non-aligned employees out
“I proactively decided to do it in a brutal way as I wanted it to be a shock to the culture so that it became uncomfortable to the people who wouldn't be a cultural fit for the company.”