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  • Pink Friday Eminem 8 Mile It must hurt to sell your album on Paypal -- Nicki Minaj
  • I've been lucky enough to be involved in a number of great startups, including eBay and Wikia as an entrepreneur and LinkedIn and Paypal as an investor. -- Gil Penchina
  • I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos. -- Alfred Lin
  • Technology has come a long way since PayPal. -- Max Levchin
  • PayPal is a business that will be bigger than eBay, -- John Donahoe
  • Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school. -- Peter Thiel
  • A lot of hackers set up scam sites. They can impersonate a site like PayPal, for instance. -- Michael Demon Calce
  • You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal. -- Max Levchin
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking. -- Peter Diamandis
  • My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent. -- Elon Musk
  • I think if you look at the commonalities between eBay, PayPal and OpenTable, all three are businesses that built a network in a vertical. Network effect businesses are very attractive businesses. -- Jeff Jordan
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