PayPal
includes PayPal Working Capital
12 statements across 11 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Mar 24, 2021 by Shaan Puri · said 90 times in 47 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2024 35 mentions in 13 episodes 3 per episode
- From PayPal Intern to Starting 4x Billion-Dollar Companies | Joe Lonsdale Interview
- The Dark Story Behind Pornhub’s $1.5B Business Empire
- $250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal
- The AI App Doing $6M With 1 Employee
- Building A 100+ Year Legacy + Peter Thiel’s Fellowship + Bomb Hiring Questions
- How To Go Beast Mode As A Founder
- Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
- 10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 10 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- My $100M Mistake + 6 Company Exit F**k Ups To Avoid (#522)
- Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410)
- From $0 to $100 Million In 3 Years Selling Cold Plunges (#527)
- Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508)
- CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO' (#505)
- Sam Reveals The Company He's Worked On For The Last 8 Month
- How Dave Ramsey Built A $300M/Year Media Empire (#428)
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2021 28 mentions in 20 episodes 1 per episode
- Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps | My First Million #189
- Fitness Hotels, Steel-Manning, and Why the Creator Economy is Overhyped
- 12 Startups Where Stock Grants Can Make You a Millionaire | My First Million #220
- The 3 Cheat Codes Startups Use to Print Cash | My First Million #211 with Julian Shapiro
- Frameworks to Become a Billionaire with HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah | My First Million #197
- MFM #172 - Advice to Young Entrepreneurs, Indie Businesses Making Millions, & How to Grow a Podcast
- The $5M Question, The Company You Would Build If You Had the Time, VR Therapy, and More
- Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, "How Much is Pomp Worth?", and More
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
Everything said about PayPal, oldest first
Mar 24, 2021 positive
May 20, 2021
Puri: Tech Giants Took Nearly $1B in SF Lease Write-Downs Post-COVID
“There's two hundred million dollars of real estate impairments in the past year since COVID. It's almost a billion if you add in the lease related write downs from large companies like Salesforce, Dropbox, Uber, PayPal, Zendesk, just getting rid of their real …”
Jul 2, 2021 bullish
Nov 22, 2022 negative
Nov 22, 2022 positive
Mar 28, 2023 positive
Puri: Peter Thiel restricted PayPal employees to a single core priority
“Peter Thiel has the same thing he used to do at running PayPal famously. It's like, was Peter Thiel a good manager? And people are like, no, like, managerial skills or like soft skills are not what Peter Thiel is known for, but he did one really effective tact…”
Jan 17, 2024 neutral
Nagpal: How Peter Thiel shielded $27M in PayPal gains using a Roth IRA
“What he did is he bought his founder shares at PayPal with his Roth IRA. So he spent like 2000 dollars to buy PayPal shares that became worth twenty seven million dollars when PayPal sold. And then he had twenty seven million dollars to just make all kinds of …”
Feb 7, 2024 positive
Max Levchin's anti-fraud engineering saved PayPal while competing payment services failed
“Max's technical brilliance in fighting the fraudsters. Kept PayPal alive when any other money transmitting service Just died because the fraudsters just had too much to gain, and they were too sophisticated, and as a young company, it's really hard to defend a…”
Apr 26, 2024
Jan 16, 2025
Shaan Puri: 165 University Avenue housed Logitech, PayPal, Google, and Danger
“What you're looking at is one six five University Avenue, also known as the Lucky Office, also known as the Karma Building. You might recognize a little better here when you see one of the companies that was started here. So Google was started here. Before Goo…”
May 14, 2025
Sep 2, 2026 positive
Puri: Peter Thiel walked away if PayPal staff discussed off-topic work
“And people were like, did he really do that? And Keith, you know, Keith Rabolli was like, yeah, he would literally do that. He would, if you tried to bring up anything else besides your problem, he would just turn around and he would just walk away.”