PayPal
5 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement May 1, 2017 by Sam Altman · said 47 times in 26 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 12 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful · Y Combinator
- From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
- Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto · Y Combinator
- The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew · Y Combinator
- The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2018 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator
- Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator
- Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
- Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- From Startup to Scaleup | Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman · Y Combinator
- Drew Houston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom · Y Combinator
- IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- Later Stage Advice with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 20) · Y Combinator
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Everything said about PayPal, oldest first
May 1, 2017
Feb 23, 2018 neutral
Nov 20, 2018 neutral
Kortina: Investors burned over $1B to subsidize Venmo peer-to-peer transactions
“I'm sure it's probably been over, like, a billion-dollar investment now to, like, wire up all these bank handles and subsidize all the peer-to-peer transactions with the hopes of someday turning on Payments to the merchant network”
Mar 18, 2025
Reeves: Gusto rejected 11 VC firms to raise seed solely from angels
“We had, I think, like, over 11 VC firms offer to invest. We actually chose to do the round with no VC firms. It was all angels, so we raised from, you know, twenty-plus CEOs and founders. It was, you know, the CEOs and founders of, you know, PayPal and Stripe …”
Mar 9, 2026
Hodak: Running startups is an oral tradition learned from key cultures
“Running a startup is an oral tradition. There have been a couple of nucleating times in history where, like, a really remarkable group of people have kind of figured it out from scratch. Like, I think PayPal was like this, but almost always beyond that, it's l…”