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4 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 24, 2019 by Jeremy Stoppelman · said 20 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jun 24, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Elon Musk pitched taking down Visa and MasterCard in 1999
“He was gonna, he's, you know, said right out of the gate, oh, we're gonna take down Visa and MasterCard.”
Jeremy Stoppelman Jun 24, 2019 ▶ 7:21 Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
Jun 24, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
Early PayPal operated solely as a money transfer service, not a bank
“PayPal was doing something very similar. The only difference is they weren't running a bank. They were just kind of a money transfer service.”
Jeremy Stoppelman Jun 24, 2019 ▶ 8:20 Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
Jun 13, 2022 negative
Insight
A 50/50 equity split caused the bitter internal battles at PayPal
“And then you merge, and it's a fifty-fifty merger, which means just no one knows who won. And that's, by the way, sort of the root of all complexity at paypalx.com story is that because we sort of settled on this, well, there's not really a senior partner. Equ…”
Max Levchin Jun 13, 2022 ▶ 1:07:46 PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
Jun 13, 2022
Assertion Supported
Levchin: PayPal and X.com copied each other and competed on eBay incentives
“They came at payments a little bit after we did, but they had some really good ideas that we didn't have. So very quickly, we start just looking at each other and going, oh, that's a good idea. We'll copy that, and vice versa. And we were in the market just be…”
Max Levchin Jun 13, 2022 ▶ 1:02:18 PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
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