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every year anyone Reid Hoffman 5Mike Maples Jr. 3Shane Parrish 2Ryan Holiday 2Michael Ovitz 1Elad Gil 1Alfred Lin 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where PayPal comes up
Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain
- ▶ 26:36 unnamed speaker PayPal. 2 times in the scene
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
- ▶ 1:16:00 Michael Ovitz I was up in the valley once, and Max Levchin is a great guy, founded Affirm and PayPal, co-founded PayPal.
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:38:45 Alfred Lin And if you decided not to invest in that time, you would have missed out on Google, Salesforce, PayPal, Zappos, OpenTable.
Best of 2022: Conversations of the Year
- ▶ 54:30 Reid Hoffman But like, for example, one of the things I learned very early days in PayPal was, um, when I'm making decisions at startup speed, even confronted with very large decisions, do you buy the company, uh, you know, this company, do you, 2 times in the scene
Reid Hoffman: Better Decisions, Fewer Mistakes
- ▶ 2:19 Shane Parrish I think the place that I want to start is you've been involved in some of the biggest sort of like scaling companies that we know of today, either through investing like Airbnb, hands-on sort of like PayPal and LinkedIn.
- ▶ 23:14 Shane Parrish You've had over a thousand board meetings between Microsoft, Airbnb, LinkedIn, PayPal, and more.
- ▶ 38:22 Reid Hoffman But like, for example, one of the things I learned very early days in PayPal was,
- ▶ 40:37 Reid Hoffman And so, you know, a little bit of like when I was learning how to make decisions much faster at PayPal, I said, all right, well, what I will do is I will get into the ritual of confronted with a major decision, right?
- ▶ 50:36 Reid Hoffman Cause even PayPal has elements where it's a social product.
#128 Ryan Holiday: A Stoic Life
- ▶ 25:20 Ryan Holiday And it's also, I think it's, it's why it can be adaptive early on is like, okay, look, um, if Elon Musk was balanced, um, he probably would have been happy and satisfied with PayPal. 2 times in the scene
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- ▶ 1:07:03 Mike Maples Jr. So, for example, if you look at the PayPal mafia, none of them were established in tech before they joined PayPal. 3 times in the scene