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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where PayPal comes up
93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever
- ▶ 17:34 Slava Rubin Again, my background connected to this is my dad died of cancer, and I tried to raise a bunch of money, and I was using MySpace and PayPal and email, which is really painful to try to get people to contribute towards a bigger project.
Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
Craigslist: Craig Newmark — The Forrest Gump of the Internet
Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith
Skype and Kazaa: Niklas Zennström
- ▶ 56:22 Niklas Zennström The largest Internet M&A before us was PayPal to eBay, right?
Fanatics: Michael Rubin
- ▶ 37:25 Michael Rubin They had two businesses, the eBay Marketplace and PayPal.
Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
- ▶ 45:01 Scott Tannen I'll be patient, but PayPal's patience will wear out at some point, and, and so, but the benefit was they were pre-ordering, so we were kind of getting interest-free financing on our next purchase orders.
SmartSweets: Tara Bosch
Dhar Mann Studios: Dhar Mann
Poshmark: Manish Chandra
- ▶ 38:37 Manish Chandra Can you PayPal me the money?
- ▶ 41:40 Manish Chandra Bring your money or PayPal me the money and then meet us.
- ▶ 53:03 Manish Chandra Went to PayPal. 4 times in the scene
KiwiCo: Sandra Oh Lin
- ▶ 9:33 Guy Raz Um, and then you moved out West to work for, for PayPal and then eBay. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:48 Sandra Oh Lin And then I also brought on a technical co-founder, somebody who had been actually a founder of PayPal, was the first engineer at YouTube.
- ▶ 25:22 Sandra Oh Lin Um, I think the experience that we collectively had at PayPal, at eBay, um, one of the co-founders had been at Yahoo before, um,
Kona Ice: Tony Lamb
Etsy: Rob Kalin
Roku: Anthony Wood
Rivian: RJ Scaringe
Affirm: Max Levchin (Part 2 of 2)
- ▶ 1:02 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Max Levchin regained his sense of purpose after losing himself in the long shadow of PayPal and eventually built Affirm, another multi-billion dollar fintech company that's changing how we buy things… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:13 Max Levchin Start inviting my nerdy PayPal friends to come to my loft and have dance parties.
- ▶ 6:34 Max Levchin And I'd sort of went back in my mind to the earliest days of PayPal and sort of the happiest moments was 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:32 Guy Raz Not, not just a PayPal, but just like, it was different from your interests and like cryptography and, and just like really intense, like mathematical problems. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:11 Guy Raz I'm curious, having gone from running PayPal, which was about, you know, financial transactions to a really sort of much more consumer-facing
- ▶ 17:27 Max Levchin Probably the most important learning from, from the problems is that, this is going back all the way to PayPal, but PayPal was this unbelievably combative, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:32 Max Levchin And going all the way back to PayPal, one time I was working, you know, very late at night. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:37 Guy Raz And he starts to formulate a plan around this very embarrassing thing that had happened just after he left PayPal. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:25 Guy Raz But you did have those moments, like going to that lecture at Stanford and, you know, eventually, you know, being part of PayPal, which is the kind of the history of, of, of Web two point 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:32 Guy Raz That's Max Levchin, founder and CEO of Affirm and co-founder of PayPal. 2 times in the scene
PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
- ▶ 0:51 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Max Levchin took an idea nobody cared about and transformed it into PayPal, a brand that embodied startup culture with its rapid rise, hairpin turns, and world-famous founders. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:04 Max Levchin And that that's kind of the, the starting point of PayPal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:26 Guy Raz And you, and, and you changed the name to PayPal at that point. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:20 Guy Raz PayPal sort of begins operations. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:05 Guy Raz When we come back, how in the space of a year, PayPal goes from 17 users to hundreds of thousands, and how in the space of three years, it goes through a merger, a management shakeup, an acquisition, and an IPO.
- ▶ 56:04 Guy Raz So, it's 1999, and Max and his partners have built a new peer-to-peer payment system, soon to be called PayPal. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:40 Guy Raz I mean, there was, I mean, the company was like losing millions of dollars a month from fraudsters, um, who were, who were trying to figure out how to outwit the system.
- ▶ 1:01:26 Guy Raz He was working with Elon, and to him, PayPal, you guys were like the enemy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:05 Guy Raz And from what, everything I've read about, and there's a new book, of course, about PayPal and all the people who came out of, out of it, um, was that he really kind of saw this as X.com was the sort of the, the senior partner in this…
- ▶ 1:06:56 Guy Raz Um, I mean, clearly there were tensions growing within PayPal. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:52 Guy Raz At, you know, PayPal, and it sounds, I don't want to caricature it, but it sounds like a little bit of a frat culture, you know, and I know that you didn't, one of the things that you did not want, I think specifically were, quote unquote,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:27 Guy Raz How did, how did PayPal survive the dot com crash of 2002 1001? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:00 Guy Raz The company went public in February of 2002, and I think on like day one, the shares were up like 55%. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:59 Max Levchin That was the great, uh, unspoken or maybe spoken in, in the PayPal halls concern. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:59 Guy Raz eBay purchased PayPal was the worst year of your life. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:16 Guy Raz Next week, we'll be back with part two of our conversation, where we'll hear about all the things that Max built since PayPal. 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! ClassPass: Payal Kadakia
Discord: Jason Citron
- ▶ 8:03 Jason Citron so, you know, they helped me set up, like, a PayPal account.
Coinbase: Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 17:22 Brian Armstrong I was worried that I had missed my moment with the internet because I had seen these internet companies get created like Google and Amazon and PayPal.
- ▶ 30:26 Brian Armstrong Yeah, I liked that name because it had a double B sound in it, like, like PayPal and Coca-Cola, like, it was a great name, but the problem with it was, which, one of the things that Y Combinator does is they have a couple lawyers on staff…
- ▶ 38:11 Brian Armstrong And these people were telling me, well, PayPal is already there. 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp
- ▶ 5:01 Guy Raz I remember one was when you were at x.com and you were just totally terrified that I think that PayPal was going to like crush you guys and, and you had sleepless nights about that.
- ▶ 23:01 Jeremy Stoppelman You know, there was an important lesson I remember from my PayPal days. 2 times in the scene
Khan Academy: Sal Khan
How I Built Resilience: Sandra Oh Lin of KiwiCo
- ▶ 2:43 Sandra Oh Lin And R and D at Procter and Gamble, and then had been at PayPal and at eBay.
How I Built Resilience: Niraj Shah and Steve Conine of Wayfair
Birchbox: Katia Beauchamp
- ▶ 27:35 Katia Beauchamp And it was just a short description and a link to a PayPal that
- ▶ 30:54 Katia Beauchamp And PayPal.
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018)
- ▶ 14:07 Patrick Collison And then, you know, coupled to that was the fact that, I mean, PayPal existed. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:31 Patrick Collison We had a meeting with Peter Thiel, uh, and sort of, uh, you know, just as in this conversation, we sort of told him structurally what we saw as being all the kind of major flaws in PayPal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:30 Guy Raz Why didn't like PayPal or these other transaction, um, companies, Square and stuff say, we're just gonna do what they do.
Eventbrite: Julia Hartz
Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
- ▶ 8:20 Jeremy Stoppelman PayPal was doing something very similar. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:50 Jeremy Stoppelman Someone would win an auction on eBay, they'd want to pay, and at that time, there weren't a lot of really fast, efficient, easy online options, and so X.com filled that gap, and then also Confinity, which was running the PayPal service,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:54 Jeremy Stoppelman Um, after PayPal was bought by eBay, especially since I'd gone through a merger, X.com and PayPal, that was pretty traumatic, frankly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:42 Jeremy Stoppelman And, uh, as I thought about and talked about it with my co-founder Russ Simmons, who was another early PayPal person, you know, reviews, capturing word of mouth, bringing it online, you know, marrying it with social networking, which was… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:36 Jeremy Stoppelman So then two other folks overheard the conversation in the incubator and came over and one of them was Scott Bannister, who had been involved, funny enough, in the naming of PayPal. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:56 Jeremy Stoppelman Uh, you know, obviously I worked hard to be able to understand technology, and, but, you know, you have to look at the timing of the fact that I joined PayPal, PayPal was a success, that entire group of people was sort of dumped out back… 3 times in the scene
Airbnb's Joe Gebbia At The HIBT Summit
- ▶ 1:47 Joe Gebbia I can tell you all the times and show you all the emails from, from really credible investors, like people that, these, they're investors that picked Google and PayPal and YouTube and Facebook and all of the kind of internet greats that…
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison
- ▶ 14:15 Patrick and John Collison And then, you know, coupled to that was the fact that, I mean, PayPal existed. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:38 Patrick and John Collison We had a meeting with Peter Thiel, uh, and sort of, uh, you know, just as in this conversation, we sort of told him structurally what we saw as being all the kind of major flaws in PayPal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:37 Guy Raz Why didn't like PayPal or these other transaction, um, companies, Square and stuff say, we're just gonna do what they do.
Stitch Fix: Katrina Lake
- ▶ 25:39 Katrina Lake And then I would, I would send you a PayPal request for 20 dollars. 4 times in the scene
LinkedIn: Reid Hoffman
- ▶ 21:12 Reid Hoffman And Peter said, come join PayPal full time, right? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:04 Guy Raz So you, you joined PayPal as the COO, and you, what was your role? 6 times in the scene
Airbnb: Joe Gebbia
- ▶ 16:09 Joe Gebbia And to put it in front of very credible investors, the guys that have picked the Googles and Paypals and YouTubes of the world, and for them to look you square in the eyes and go, well, this is weird.