PayPal, every mention
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Conferences are (mostly) a waste
- ▶ 14:17 Alex Lieberman Who started Braintree, a payments company that was acquired by PayPal for eight hundred million dollars.
How to Identify Top 1% Talent (Keith Rabois, Investor in Doordash, YouTube, Airbnb & Lyft)
- ▶ 1:14 Alex Lieberman And prior to all of this, he had senior leadership roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square.
- ▶ 5:28 Keith Raboi Literally in January, 2001, we had a conversation when I was about to spend time with Max for the first time and really debate a sort of series of initiatives at PayPal with him.
- ▶ 19:43 Keith Raboi So one of the critiques I was trying to get promoted at PayPal from, like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:17 Alex Lieberman But when you were first thinking about what you were noticing about the really good undiscovered talent internally at PayPal, what did you notice about those people? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:26 Keith Raboi Um, an organization like PayPal, maybe we had between, um, 10 to 15 barrels of PayPal out of, like, 254 people.
How to Reverse Engineer Great Business Ideas (Sam Parr, The Hustle & Hampton)
Why Software is Eating the World
- ▶ 16:32 Alex Lieberman And many of the leading innovators in financial services are software companies, such as Square, which allows anyone to accept credit card payments with a mobile phone, and PayPal, which generated more than a billion dollars in revenue in…
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
- ▶ 8:13 Alex Lieberman They're behind many of the most successful technology businesses, including PayPal, Facebook, and Twitter.
How to Get Your First 1,000 Users
- ▶ 7:01 Alex Lieberman He said, inviting people from our network, mostly former co-workers from PayPal, drove our initial users.
Avoiding an OpenAI Fiasco by Successfully Building Your Board
- ▶ 8:36 Brett Adcock And then, you know, obviously at PayPal, um, and there were things that Elon did, uh, in twenty-twenty-one at SpaceX and into twenty-twenty-three, uh, Tesla that really helped, uh, um, kind of basically cement his position as a founder-led…
How Tyler Denk Took Beehiiv from 0 to $750,000/month in 2.5 Years
- ▶ 38:55 Alex Lieberman We still have ways to go in building, like, the PayPal mafia, but thinking about, like, the Morning Brew mafia, and then ultimately when you think about, like, the Beehive mafia, I feel like that is, like, one of the coolest feelings you…
Why Coffee Chats Have Energized My Ideas
- ▶ 15:12 Alex Lieberman And when I brought up things like Stripe or PayPal with him, he's like, yeah, UPI is literally decades ahead of any other technology.
Why Airlines Are Banks, How to Annual Plan for Your Business & The Biggest Myths About Founders
- ▶ 19:34 Alex Lieberman If you're a company like Venmo or PayPal, who, again, you can load money into your Venmo account, but then you want to be able to get dollars out, there's way more regulation on how those businesses can use that money to actually fund…
Can Elon Turn the Twitter Ship Around?
- ▶ 11:51 Alex Lieberman David Sachs, who was part of the PayPal mafia, was the COO, I believe, of, uh, PayPal. 2 times in the scene
Great Startup Ideas, Bad Businesses
- ▶ 10:54 Alex Lieberman PayPal, you have cardholders and retailers.
Thoughts on Employees Leaving
- ▶ 9:57 Alex Lieberman Max Levchin, who was the CTO of PayPal and went on to start Affirm.
Default to action and consistency
- ▶ 13:09 Alex Lieberman Honey was bought by PayPal for four billion dollars in 2019.