Paypal Quotes

• The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn't fail. It still didn't really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.

  Max Levchin

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.

  Peter Thiel

  School, People, Bombs

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.134, Crown Business

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• You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

  Max Levchin

  Lessons, Married, Plans

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• Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.

  Eric Ries

  Baby, Perseverance, Ebay

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• For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.

  Meg Whitman

  Country, Ebay, Ideas

  Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. January 24, 2008.

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• Going from PayPal, I thought: 'Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?' Not from the perspective, 'What's the best way to make money?'

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Perspective, Humanity

  "25 quotes that take you inside Elon Musk's brilliant, eccentric mind" by Steven Benna, www.businessinsider.com. September 23, 2015.

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• PayPal is a business that will be bigger than eBay.

  John Donahoe

  Ebay, Bigger

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• Technology has come a long way since PayPal.

  Max Levchin

  Technology, Long, Way

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• PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.

  Max Levchin

  Jobs, Fun, Engineering

  Interview with Peter Thiel, gist.github.com. 2012.

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• I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc taking shape between them. I was experimenting with releasing the stories online for Paypal donations, so the existing ones are currently available via the blog for free download, but the ball didn't keep rolling in terms of meeting the targets I was setting.

  Hal Duncan

  Numbers, Rolling, Balls

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• A lot of hackers set up scam sites. They can impersonate a site like PayPal, for instance.

  Michael Demon Calce

  Scams, Hackers, Site

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Pink Friday Eminem 8 Mile, It must hurt to sell your album on Paypal.

  Nicki Minaj

  Friday, Hurt, Albums

  "Nicki Minaj Lashes Out at Lil Kim on Dis Record Featuring Lil Wayne" by D.L. CHANDLER, www.mtv.com. April 02, 2011.

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• As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it.

  Chad Hurley

  Success, Business, Powerful

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