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Abbasi: PayPal was a 'pretty crappy business' until eBay acquired it
“Cause you know, if you look at the history of PayPal, you know, they were pretty crappy business for a very, very long time until eBay bought them.”
Founders of PayPal, Stripe, and Instagram backed Gusto's $6M seed round
“It was 20 founders, CEOs that You know, did that seed round. It was the founders of PayPal and Instagram and Mint and Eventbrite and Stripe and Nest and a whole bunch of really incredible businesses Box and Dropbox.”
Anderson: Tandym captured 5% to 10% of merchant checkout volume
“We were seeing between five and 10% of a brand's checkout moving to our product, which to set context, like PayPal captures maybe 15 to 20% of a brand's checkout.”
Google, PayPal, and eBay pioneered bug bounty programs around 2012
“The other thing that was going on at the time was that, you know, I think it was Google PayPal and eBay. We're all talking about their vulnerability reward programs, which was what we called a bug bounty program back in like, 2012, right?”