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The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:26 Jesse Pollak So I think about fintech one point O as the nineties, things like PayPal, where consumers for the first time got comfortable paying for things online.
The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:36 Harj Taggar Bob was an early engineer at PayPal, an early executive at Palantir, and was recently chief research officer at OpenAI, where he led the development of ChatGPT, GPT-IV, and the O-One reasoning model.
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:33 Arne Englander Um, so we ended up just taking payments over the phone, taking payments with cash, taking payments with PayPal.
Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:09 Garry Tan Um, and you basically took it and you rolled, you kept rolling with x.com, which became PayPal and Confinity. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:03 Garry Tan I guess from your PayPal and ZipTwo experience jumping into these hardcore hardware startups, it feels like one of the through lines was being able to find and eventually attract the smartest possible people in those particular fields.
From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:04 Josh Reeves Um, it was, you know, the CEOs and founders of, you know, PayPal and Stripe and, you know, um, Mint and Instagram and
- ▶ 16:57 Josh Reeves Max Levchin, PayPal, you know, obviously fintech, and that was, you know, predating that time period.
Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:39 Tom Blomfield Yeah, I mean, it started out, um, pre-PayPal, it was, uh, it was going to be an all-encompassing online bank, right, and it sort of merged, and there was a big fight over what name they chose, and there have been talks
B2B Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:03 Tom Blomfield And that's what gives very sticky businesses like Stripe, like GoCardus, like PayPal, this exponential growth.
Advantages Of A First-Time Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:31 Harj Taggar Like he started, I think it was a zip to something, then PayPal, but now, you know, now SpaceX and Tesla, but from our own orbit, like we have example, I speak a personal one, um, a friend and former roommate of mine, Eric Wu is the YC…
Why You Should Leave Your FAANG Job · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:00 Dalton Caldwell I saw that PayPal had some kind of research lab. 2 times in the scene
Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:58 Dalton Caldwell It was the idea that he could build something like PayPal to do P to P transfers and that the, the buying Bitcoin part, but that was just part of it.
- ▶ 17:41 Michael Seibel You know, PayPal existed. 3 times in the scene
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 53:33 Michael Seibel Yeah, the only other way you can get away with this is kind of like the eBay PayPal case where, like,
Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 52:52 Iba Masood Offers from Google, Amazon, PayPal.
Mike Knoop on Product and Design Processes for Remote Teams with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:45 Mike Knoop And I think we had, we had, we built PayPal and high rise and Twitter, I think were the first three apps. 3 times in the scene
Vinod Khosla : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:30 Sam Altman PayPal's a famous example.
Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator
- ▶ 59:05 Andrew Kortina Um, but for PayPal, they're actually awesome because PayPal is basically doing a ton of transactions, uh, that come from bank accounts and then charging a credit card, uh, uh, processing phase. 5 times in the scene
Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:08 Patrick Collison Uh, it was just like two teenagers or, you know, just, just over teenagers trying to compete with PayPal, which, um, you know, many people told us was not an especially kind of, uh, promising avenue to pursue. 2 times in the scene
Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- ▶ 50:53 Vivek Ravisankar Yeah, I think, uh, uh, Peter Thiel, uh, talked about this, uh, I, I think maybe one of the podcasts or one of the interviews, uh, which is the way PayPal got built was they went and hired people who, who the others thought weren't… 2 times in the scene
Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:00 Reid Hoffman I think you probably know this, but you know, the first use case for PayPal was splitting the dinner check on Palm Pilots.
Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:48 Des Traynor Log into the PayPal dashboard.
IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:06:53 Juan Benet And I mean, if you, if you caught Google and you invested early on, like if you were one of the early investors at Google, during the height of the bubble, right, like, or PayPal, or any of these amazing companies that got built through…
From Startup to Scaleup | Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:47 Reid Hoffman And so this is actually part of when, ah, I got to PayPal and was, ah, you know, kind of when 2 times in the scene
Later Stage Advice with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 20) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:43 Sam Altman Um, and by really great, apparently, uh, Roloff Bota, who was the PayPal CFO, and built their FP&A model.
Drew Houston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:49 Drew Houston Um, and it was inspired by some of the stuff I'd saw in the late nineties, like PayPal, or maybe early 2000. 2 times in the scene
Pitch Practice with Paul Buchheit and Sam Altman at Startup School SV 2016 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:55 Sam Altman This is just like Palantir, how PayPal dealt with fraud.