PayPal
5 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 30, 2019 by Joe Lonsdale · said 35 times in 16 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Joe Lonsdale (11), Seth Ginns (4), Justin Fishner-Wolfson (3), Sanjay Ayer (2), Olaf Carlson-Wee (2), Chas Cocke (2), Ted Seides (1), Stephen McKeon (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
- Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek – Renegade Spin-Out in the Supercritical Stage, Venture is Eating the Investment World 11 (Capital Allocators, EP. 242)
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 12 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Crypto for Institutions 3: Seth Ginns – Investing Beyond Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.182)
- Justin Fishner- Wolfson - 137 Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.25)
- Chas Cocke - From Allocator to Manager (Capital Allocators, EP.224)
- Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques – Harlem Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.24)
- Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain - Multicoin Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.20)
- Crypto for Institutions 1: Eric Peters – The Macro Case for Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.180)
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2019 12 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about PayPal, oldest first
Sep 30, 2019 neutral
Sep 30, 2019 neutral
Max Levchin rejected Lonsdale from PayPal before Peter Thiel hired him
“So I actually got turned down the very first time I applied there as a programmer when I was quite young, Max Loachin. Who's now a friend. I mean, do stuff on the whiteboard and we debated things and I never got an offer from that, but then Peter brought me ba…”
Mar 15, 2021 positive
Mar 15, 2021 positive
Ginns: PayPal's Spinoff Filing Was the First SEC Filing Mentioning Bitcoin
“I remember the first SEC filing that mentioned Bitcoin and kind of feeling a level of validation, a level of
Excitement around this coming into the, just the first fold of mainstream.
And it was the S one where PayPal spun out of eBay.”
Dec 23, 2021
Fishner-Wolfson: Ken Howery raised Middle East capital for PayPal in 2001
“I actually met Ken Howery because at that point in time, it was close to the dot com bust and PayPal was still burning. I believe the technical term is a ton of money, and he was in the Middle East raising money because there was money to be raised in the Midd…”