PayPal, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where PayPal comes up
Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: "I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them"
- ▶ 5:17 Michael Ovitz Max Levchin, who was the founder of Affirm and PayPal, and I think you know Max.
How Elon Thinks
- ▶ 11:48 unnamed speaker He set their initial launch date, uh, for PayPal on like Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend.
- ▶ 17:59 unnamed speaker And he earned his first seed money from everything that most of what he made from zip to, he rolled right back into starting like the week later, starting x.com, which became PayPal.
- ▶ 1:13:11 unnamed speaker Um, the story from PayPal is like a little more generalizable, which is,
- ▶ 1:27:29 unnamed speaker Also a PayPal thing, like make the decision as quickly as possible, and then just like keep moving.
- ▶ 1:29:58 unnamed speaker Massive order of magnitude breakthroughs were possible was when they actually sold PayPal.
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 1:43:31 David Senra Predictable or knowable when he's much younger, because like the, the famous example of this and, um, is Michael Moritz passing made all his money in PayPal with Elon.
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 44:56 Brian Armstrong So then I was like, hey, we've got to make it possible to get bank transfers hooked up, kind of like PayPal or debit cards.
- ▶ 51:42 Brian Armstrong There was a book called PayPal Wars, which talked about the early days of PayPal, and it's actually pretty remarkable.
How Todd Graves Built Raising Cane's
- ▶ 1:13:31 David Senra He invested in PayPal, which is a successful exit. 2 times in the scene