PayPal, every mention
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every year anyone Matt Lerner 10Tara Seshan 2Brett Berson 2Zack Kanter 1Imad Akhund 1David Cramer 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where PayPal comes up
How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
- ▶ 4:59 Zack Kanter So I had a website, took PayPal, and I would sell on these online car forms.
Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury)
- ▶ 29:49 Imad Akhund it was already Stripe and Square and PayPal and things like that.
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
- ▶ 1:08:55 David Cramer It was like him talking about PayPal days and stuff.
How to find & pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder of SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)
- ▶ 0:06 Matt Lerner I was, when I started at PayPal early on, I was living in San Francisco, and I came home to my apartment, and there was a sticker on the gate that said, 24 hour emergency locksmith, and it had a phone number.
- ▶ 1:25 Brett Berson He led B to B startup growth teams at PayPal for over a decade before transitioning and becoming an investor for a brief period of time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:53 Matt Lerner But I thought about my time at PayPal and like, when I look back on it, all of our growth, all of like, 95% of it came from like five things.
- ▶ 47:45 Matt Lerner I mean, I said PayPal, all their growth came from five things, but they did more than five things, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:35 unnamed speaker So I gave early on the example of PayPal partnered with all the shopping cart and e-commerce platforms. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:24 Matt Lerner And what this is, is I was, when I started at PayPal, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:33 Matt Lerner But I worked for him when I was at PayPal, and he was running, I think, the North America P&L.
Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, and fundraising | Wade Foster (Co-founder & CEO at Zapier)
- ▶ 10:52 unnamed speaker I can just integrate, um, PayPal and QuickBooks, um, one click, like they wanted a SAS product. 2 times in the scene
Lessons from Stripe on adding new products | Tara Seshan (Watershed, Stripe)
- ▶ 52:41 Tara Seshan Back in the day, the context was, like, the best alternative was PayPal. 2 times in the scene