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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where PayPal comes up
7 things Bezos, MrBeast & Thiel do that you don’t
- ▶ 19:38 Shaan Puri So Peter Thiel famously at, when he was the CEO of PayPal, he had this thing that I really loved, which he goes, we are going to be a single tasking company. 3 times in the scene
From selling ACs to becoming the tourism king of Jamaica
- ▶ 21:58 Shaan Puri Sam, you ever heard about Taobao, which is their, uh, you know, essentially their, like, PayPal?
How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
- ▶ 17:06 Ankur Nagpal He put his PayPal founder shares in a Roth IRA. 2 times in the scene
The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets
- ▶ 11:04 Shaan Puri Well, but even before that, he, you know, he sell, uh, PayPal sells.
The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
- ▶ 1:18 Shaan Puri Before Google was started there, PayPal was started there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:41 Shaan Puri He's selling luxury Persian rugs, and right above his, or like right next to his rug shop, there's also some office space, and so he, um, he ends up renting an office space to the founders of, I think it's, uh, like PayPal or something… 3 times in the scene
Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
- ▶ 51:55 Shaan Puri That was the, the kind of like the PayPal give 10, get 10 type of model.
10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
Building A 100+ Year Legacy + Peter Thiel’s Fellowship + Bomb Hiring Questions
- ▶ 42:06 Shaan Puri So Max Levchin, I think was, was the one that, you know, the creator of PayPal, he was talking about, he goes, when I got acquired by Google, 2 times in the scene
We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit
- ▶ 48:38 Shaan Puri Tesla, SpaceX, PayPal, OpenAI even.
How To Go Beast Mode As A Founder
- ▶ 1:10 Shaan Puri There's a wonderful story about Peter Thiel when he was running PayPal. 2 times in the scene
CEOs Pay Him $10,000 Per Appointment
- ▶ 42:54 Shaan Puri She like made us, uh, she's like, I don't know anything about tech, but like she went on like, I don't know, Squarespace and then like, got like a, uh, you know, put Stripe on there or PayPal on there and started taking payments.
The AI App Doing $6M With 1 Employee
- ▶ 50:20 Shaan Puri Palantir, you know, the genesis of it was he was an intern at PayPal. 3 times in the scene
From PayPal Intern to Starting 4x Billion-Dollar Companies | Joe Lonsdale Interview
- ▶ 2:59 Joe Lonsdale Reed was one of the key, key minds at PayPal, of course, with Peter Thiel and others.
- ▶ 27:56 Joe Lonsdale Like, it's probably why I missed Stripe early on is we'd been at PayPal 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:48 Shaan Puri You become an intern at PayPal. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:47 Joe Lonsdale Whereas if you show up and you walk in the door with you, the former head of the CIA and, and, and Peter Thiel's made the intro after the being a PayPal and another one of his friends whose senior has like, has explained to them that this…
Data Backed Businesses Guaranteed To Make +$1M From Day 1
- ▶ 18:21 Shaan Puri And, and I think, you know, he's a fascinating guy because when he was 1819, 20, he was an intern at PayPal.
I Spent 7 Days With The Richest Men In Texas
Elon Musk SUES Sam Altman
- ▶ 45:16 Shaan Puri Uh, the, in the lawsuit, it shows that, uh, Elon then went to the PayPal co-founder, this guy, Luke Nosek, and tried to quickly like emergency raise, five hundred million dollars to buy DeepMind instead of Google, just to keep it out of…
The Dark Story Behind Pornhub’s $1.5B Business Empire
- ▶ 34:07 Shaan Puri And by the way, I remember reading once, uh, so Max Levchin, who is one of the most, you know, brilliant people in Silicon Valley, this guy, you know, one of the co-founders of PayPal and without Max, you know, there is no PayPal, which… 5 times in the scene
$250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal
- ▶ 31:44 Ankur Nagpal But what he did is he bought his founder shares at PayPal with his Roth IRA. 4 times in the scene
From $0 to $100 Million In 3 Years Selling Cold Plunges (#527)
My $100M Mistake + 6 Company Exit F**k Ups To Avoid (#522)
Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508)
- ▶ 38:21 Shaan Puri I'm not gonna do his whole life story, but like interesting kind of early on door to door sales type of guy ends up creating a tech company, Braintree buys Venmo, sells Braintree to PayPal for like 708 hundred million dollars, creates this…
CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO' (#505)
- ▶ 42:46 Shaan Puri And I took this because like Peter Thiel said that he did this at PayPal.
Sam Reveals The Company He's Worked On For The Last 8 Month
- ▶ 52:14 Shaan Puri Peter Thiel has the same thing he used to do at running PayPal famously.
How Dave Ramsey Built A $300M/Year Media Empire (#428)
Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410)
- ▶ 43:02 Suleman "Suli" Ali Crypto, Bitcoin, these guys are building PayPal for crypto and Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
5 Business Ideas With High Demand & Low Supply | Start These In 2022 (#374)
- ▶ 44:32 Shaan Puri And this is why, you know, PayPal and Facebook and others, they, they have so much, so much staff every day dedicated just to catching cheaters.
The $5M Question, The Company You Would Build If You Had the Time, VR Therapy, and More
- ▶ 42:55 Shaan Puri This was like pay with PayPal.
Fitness Hotels, Steel-Manning, and Why the Creator Economy is Overhyped
- ▶ 7:54 Shaan Puri I met a guy who, in college, was friends with a guy who worked under Peter Thiel at PayPal. 2 times in the scene
Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, "How Much is Pomp Worth?", and More
How Brumate Made $20M with 0 Employees, Shahid Khan is the Billionaire of the Week, and More
- ▶ 20:09 Shaan Puri He got Shopify capital, PayPal working capital, Amazon lending.
3 Patterns for Great Business Ideas with Jack Abraham, Founder, Managing Partner & CEO at Atomic
- ▶ 26:05 Jack Abraham I got the opportunity to go run PayPal.
Sam & Shaan Bet $500, Ozy Media Scam, Why Google is Dying, and More | My First Million #223
- ▶ 5:54 Shaan Puri This guy is ex PayPal.
12 Startups Where Stock Grants Can Make You a Millionaire | My First Million #220
- ▶ 35:34 Shaan Puri He was part of the PayPal mafia. 2 times in the scene
How to Make Billions with a DTC Niche Clothing Line | My First Million #219
- ▶ 13:28 Shaan Puri But the problem is Stripe has like many payment processors, like PayPal, like others, terms and conditions, which basically say you can't use this if you're cannabis, if you're crypto, if you're, um, you know, porn, if you're all these…
The 3 Cheat Codes Startups Use to Print Cash | My First Million #211 with Julian Shapiro
- ▶ 19:27 Julian Shapiro So Slack Connect, Dropbox, PayPal, Calendly. 2 times in the scene
Frameworks to Become a Billionaire with HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah | My First Million #197
- ▶ 59:40 Shaan Puri and then add a PayPal button, but then make it where the PayPal button can only take five dollars, uh, max and like, that's it. 2 times in the scene
Who Really Created Bitcoin & Other Crypto Startup Ideas | My First Million #196
Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps | My First Million #189
- ▶ 51:16 Shaan Puri I'll send you the PayPal invoice. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:20 Shaan Puri It didn't become Stripe, but it sold for about 808 hundred million dollars, I believe, to PayPal.
Making Millions Improving Mobility & How to Beat LinkedIn | My First Million #184
- ▶ 1:01:18 Shaan Puri Peter Thiel, who is like, you know, investor, uh, was one of the first investors on Facebook, created PayPal, that sort of thing.
How Course Businesses Work & How Irish Pubs as a Service is Making Millions | My First Million #183
- ▶ 57:11 Shaan Puri 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, their, uh, real estate.
MFM #172 - Advice to Young Entrepreneurs, Indie Businesses Making Millions, & How to Grow a Podcast
- ▶ 52:34 Shaan Puri So Max Levchin, the co-founder of PayPal, uh, Affirm went public, I think this year or last year, it's about a 17, eighteen billion dollar company right now. 2 times in the scene
MFM #166: Why a Sudoku Company Sold for $640m, "Opendoor for X" & Franchising Tech Companies
- ▶ 19:01 Shaan Puri So he's the guy who, uh, uh, he was like ex-PayPal, then he was the COO of Square.
MFM #163: How Chrome Plugins Are Making Millions & How A Studying App is Going Viral
- ▶ 14:51 Shaan Puri Um, so the, the two famous ones that everybody kind of has heard about is Honey because Honey sold to PayPal for several 1,000,000,004 billion dollars.
MFM #161: Why Michael Saylor Believes Bitcoin is Hope
- ▶ 1:08:20 Shaan Puri Uh, and they're looking for, you know, investment grade, you know, uh, sort of, uh, the, the most powerful treasury asset, and he's decided it's Bitcoin and, uh, you know, square has put some money in PayPal has put money in.
MFM #160: How to Build a Paid Community Making $20M a Year
- ▶ 1:13:27 Dave Selinger Like in the age of Venmo and in the age of PayPal and in the age of Apple money and Facebook money and, and every type of virtual currency in the world, there's still people getting paid money to like put their lives in danger to go move…
MFM #159: A 9-Figure Sex Toy Company & The Man With A Million Acres
- ▶ 1:03:31 Shaan Puri Like, for example, I read this book, PayPal, whatever, the PayPal origin story or whatever.