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every year anyone Tobi Lütke 1Matt Huang 1John Collison 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where PayPal comes up
Creating prediction markets (and suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara
- ▶ 1:52 John Collison And secondly, I feel like the Silicon Valley standard that people sometimes trot out as a criticism is sort of the PayPal, Uber early days model where you start doing the thing and maybe retroactively a structure is put on top of it, but…
- ▶ 13:19 Matt Huang So to John's point on PayPal and Uber and asking for forgiveness, there were other prediction markets operating, uh, and showing real usage, uh, offshore, and so I'm wondering how much did that help demonstrate that election markets…
Tobi Lütke is still captivated by internet commerce, 20 years later
- ▶ 51:00 Tobi Lütke Um, there was all these efforts, Apple Pay, like, I think actually PayPal was around, but then sort of didn't do anything.