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7 things Bezos, MrBeast & Thiel do that you don’t Sep 2, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Feb 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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) May 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets Feb 11, 2025 · 1 mention

The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors Jan 16, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Nov 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Sep 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:38 Sam Parr And what we've noticed is like the office is still buzzing with people and it feels like the golden days of PayPal.

Building A 100+ Year Legacy + Peter Thiel’s Fellowship + Bomb Hiring Questions Aug 28, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jul 19, 2024 · 1 mention

How To Go Beast Mode As A Founder Jul 8, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Apr 30, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Apr 26, 2024 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Apr 17, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Apr 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:52 Sam Parr And then he, you know, he got in Peter Thiel's orbit and he did, uh, he was probably was wildly successful just as an employee at PayPal, but then he spun off and they created Palantir together.

Elon Musk SUES Sam Altman Mar 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Feb 7, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jan 17, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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) Dec 6, 2023 · 1 mention

My $100M Mistake + 6 Company Exit F**k Ups To Avoid (#522) Nov 24, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 37:14 Sam Parr I paid a 150 dollars out of my PayPal account. 3 times in the scene

Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508) Oct 17, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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) Oct 10, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Mar 28, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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) Mar 9, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:48 Sam Parr It's a quote, a store that is a blog post and a click to PayPal.

Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410) Jan 24, 2023 · 2 mentions

How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388) Nov 22, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01 Sam Parr So you bootstrapped that, sold it for like something like eight hundred million dollars to PayPal.
  • ▶ 2:47 Sam Parr So Braintree, I mean, like, you know, you guys are owned by PayPal now. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:57 Shaan Puri He had x.com and PayPal.

5 Business Ideas With High Demand & Low Supply | Start These In 2022 (#374) Oct 13, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Dec 16, 2021 · 1 mention

Fitness Hotels, Steel-Manning, and Why the Creator Economy is Overhyped Dec 9, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Nov 19, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:42 Sam Parr Yeah, sold it to PayPal, and if I had to guess, at this point, he's probably worth at least a billion.

How Brumate Made $20M with 0 Employees, Shahid Khan is the Billionaire of the Week, and More Oct 12, 2021 · 1 mention

3 Patterns for Great Business Ideas with Jack Abraham, Founder, Managing Partner & CEO at Atomic Oct 8, 2021 · 1 mention

Sam & Shaan Bet $500, Ozy Media Scam, Why Google is Dying, and More | My First Million #223 Oct 5, 2021 · 1 mention

12 Startups Where Stock Grants Can Make You a Millionaire | My First Million #220 Sep 17, 2021 · 2 mentions

How to Make Billions with a DTC Niche Clothing Line | My First Million #219 Sep 16, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Aug 25, 2021 · 2 mentions

Frameworks to Become a Billionaire with HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah | My First Million #197 Jul 7, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jul 2, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:48 Dan Held And so it's a very clear signal that Bitcoin wasn't here to disrupt a Visa or PayPal.

Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps | My First Million #189 Jun 9, 2021 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 21, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 May 20, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Apr 19, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Apr 2, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Mar 24, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Mar 17, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Mar 12, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Mar 10, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:03:31 Shaan Puri Like, for example, I read this book, PayPal, whatever, the PayPal origin story or whatever.
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