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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where PayPal comes up
Stripe’s $53B PayPal Offer, OpenAI’s First Device, TBPN’s New Business Ideas | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:11 John Coogan Stripe is offered to buy PayPal. 22 times in the scene
Palantir's AIPCon 10, Ramp Hits $44B, 60 Minutes Eyes Rogan | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:12 unnamed speaker You compare them to like, you know, ramp is now worth more than PayPal. 3 times in the scene
Arm’s $15B Chip Bet, Sanders & AOC vs Datacenters, Meta & YouTube Lose Trial | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:48 Jordi Hays Chicken in the chat says PayPal started on PDAs. 3 times in the scene
Bezos' $100B AI Plan, Nvida Chip Smuggling, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:25 unnamed speaker Elon sold PayPal.
Inside Bezos’ Plan to Rebuild U.S. Manufacturing With AI
- ▶ 4:47 unnamed speaker So Elon sold PayPal.
What The Citrini Selloff Says About the Stock Market
- ▶ 21:59 John Coogan He says, the software megacycle started with PayPal going public, and it will end with PayPal going private. 3 times in the scene
Kim K's New Energy Drink, Citrini Discourse Rages On, the $100B Meta-AMD Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:52 John Coogan He says the software megacycle started with PayPal going public, and it will end with PayPal going private. 3 times in the scene
Citrini Research’s viral piece, AI and the economy, 90s Nostalgia | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:58 unnamed speaker And we were debating, like, um, you know, PayPal had gotten beat up, and there was a question about, like, what is the strategy going forward? 3 times in the scene
REACTION: The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis
- ▶ 4:21 unnamed speaker Um, and we were debating, like, um, you know, PayPal had gotten beat up, and there was a question about, like, 4 times in the scene
SpaceX-xAI merger reactions, Paypal plummets, Disney names next CEO | Diet TBPN
Disney Partners with OpenAI, Breaking Down SpaceX’s IPO Plans, Oracle Slips | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:48 John Coogan The company is run by Elon Musk, who co-founded PayPal along the Founders Fund partners.
Don't Die CEO Bryan Johnson on Living Forever, AI & His $60M Blueprint For Immortality
- ▶ 31:07 Bryan Johnson They, so they built up a, so people in payments, it was very clear PayPal was the only company making money. 4 times in the scene
Google Makes MAJOR Cancer Research Breakthrough | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:45 unnamed speaker PayPal and Wise are taking shots at each other. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping
- ▶ 1:32:39 John Coogan Well, PayPal. 2 times in the scene
Gabe Whaley on Why MSCHF Makes Virality an Art Form
- ▶ 24:03 Gabe Whaley Well, PayPal if you're listening,, let me know. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 1:51:25 Ben Thompson Uh, I think they had just come out with their billing product, and the only alternative at the time was, was PayPal, uh, for subscriptions, and it was fairly sketchy, and there was lots of, like, horror stories out there about, you know,…
DWARKESH PATEL on the Biggest Problem of AI
- ▶ 22:49 Dwarkesh Patel If you're Meta and you're spending eighty billion dollars on compute over the next couple of years, um, if one great researcher can give you a one percent performance uptick on that, they're, like, so worth the hundred million dollar…
Coinbase CEO Explains the Future of Crypto
- ▶ 10:03 Brian Armstrong I believe it's about the founding of PayPal. 3 times in the scene
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 1:06:49 Brian Armstrong I mean, I was kind of stealing a page out of the PayPal book where, you know, everybody would get about, I think you could, yeah, if you invited your friend and they onboarded
- ▶ 1:18:48 Brian Armstrong Well, just starting first with that PayPal point that you made, I mean, 3 times in the scene
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
- ▶ 5:25 John Coogan Talk to me about the go-to-market, uh, Peter Thiel, obviously founder of the Thiel Fellowship, also founder of PayPal. 2 times in the scene
Missing PayPal and Google Made Him a Better Investor | Ali Partovi on TBPN
- ▶ 9:53 Ali Partovi What was called Confinity, which became PayPal.
GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 13:27 Jordi Hays And below that is PayPal USD USD, which is an eight hundred million dollar market cap.
HONEY Founder Responds to MegaLag -- Ryan Hudson on TBPN
- ▶ 1:24 Ryan Hudson Classic, but insanely, uh, fun time riding a hockey stick of growth and in 20, 20 sold the company to PayPal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:31 John Coogan Has that revenue mix changed over the time that you were there pre or post PayPal?
- ▶ 17:23 Ryan Hudson Cause, um, almost everybody I'm talking about, like moved on from the PayPal organization doing other things. 6 times in the scene
Shaun Maguire breaks down Wiz investment, building great teams, and the Everything App.
- ▶ 9:45 Shaun Maguire If you think about, you know, PayPal, obviously the PayPal mafia, like they had concentrated insane amounts of talent.
"I Invest in People" – David Senra Talks Ramp, His Favorite Founders, and the Pursuit of Greatness.
- ▶ 9:48 John Coogan He wrote the PayPal book, right? 2 times in the scene
Could NIKOLA Make a Comeback?
- ▶ 21:03 Austin Petersmith Like that was the company he did after PayPal and he sold that for a billion dollars.
The Internet’s Most Famous Drug Dealer (Ross Ulbricht)
- ▶ 17:10 unnamed speaker It was like a PayPal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:43 unnamed speaker You should split up your Bitcoin holdings so that, you know, if you get taken down here, like, you know, you'll still, and then, and then on the platform level, they had created this sort of PayPal style system, right?
The US GOVERNMENT Files (Time for the Truth)
- ▶ 4:15 John Coogan Uh, founder of PayPal, founder of Palantir,
- ▶ 48:07 John Coogan They were kind of forced to sell their company after IPO. 2 times in the scene
You are NOT a Lottery Ticket (Peter Thiel Breakdown)
- ▶ 2:24 unnamed speaker Elon Musk went from PayPal to start SpaceX and Tesla.
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 1:32:01 John Coogan I mean, this is the story of Elon with SpaceX, like made his money in PayPal, dumped it all in something crazier that required a massive backstop.
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 50:18 John Coogan Uh, Craig Weiss says, did the PayPal mafia just take over the government? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:01:04 John Coogan But then there's also this story about FinTech, PayPal, Stripe, Ramp, Bitcoin.
Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- ▶ 1:30:29 unnamed speaker Also, just, like, all the PayPal drama, and the drama with Sequoia, like,
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 6:48 John Coogan Made them mega wealthy themselves, and, uh, and we were actually, Teddy and, and the three of us were all hanging out.
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 27:22 John Coogan Um, so this is the co-founder of Honey, sold the company to PayPal for four billion dollars, and he essentially got a free forty four million dollar house, which has now been profiled.