Levchin: Mobile payments must be easier and faster than cash and cards
Max Levchin · PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2) · Jun 13, 2022 · at 49:52
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin reflects on why 1990s digital cash predecessors like DigiCash failed to capture the consumer market.
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“And if it's not easy, it's just not going to work with money. Money works pretty well when it's in paper form and it works Really well when it's a card form. So if you're trying to push it into an application or into a mobile device, it better be easier and quicker than the existing systems.”
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