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A guide to the best B2B podcast coverage of PayPal - the shows and 29 episodes that go deepest, ranked by substance, not downloads.

PayPal's role in digital commerce spans from its founding networks under Max Levchin to its current challenges in an evolving fintech landscape. These episodes explore how businesses are moving beyond virtual wallets and payment dependencies, examining alternatives like Wero, the rise of AI agents in financial services, and how companies like Affirm and One Inc. are reshaping digital commerce and trust infrastructure - while also unpacking PayPal's own historical inflection points and the industry consolidation it helped trigger.

Best shows on PayPal

Best episodes on PayPal

  1. Episode 40: The Economic Reality of AI: Friction, Talent, and the Future of the Firm

    High Signal · 2026-05-26

    97 / 100

    …They actually had a patent on that, believe it or not, right? And eBay bought PayPal, I think it was around 2002, '3.[00:06:00] And I think it was 2013 or so that they launched this streamlined shopping experience that replaced A with B.…

  2. Venture Secondaries: 3 Steps to Escape the 12-Year LP Liquidity Trap

    Making Billions · 2026-06-01

    88 / 100

    …A former PayPal and eBay CFO who has structured over a billion dollars in financing just revealed the exact system for buying into the world's best deals for VC funds at up to 70% below market value .…

  3. From eBay Skunkworks to Agentic Payments w/ Shayanth from Highnote

    Risk and Reason · 2026-04-09

    86 / 100

    …Uh, you know, starting all the way back in 2014 when I was an intern at PayPal.…

  4. PayPal’s Stablecoin Playbook

    This Week in Fintech · 2026-06-04

    82 / 100

    …You can't mess with the PayPal mothership.…

  5. How AI has supercharged dispute resolution and arbitration

    ABA Journal Podcasts · 2026-05-13

    80 / 100

    …peaker B: At eBay and PayPal.…

  6. Max Levchin - Building Affirm, PayPal, and Why He Only Starts Network Businesses

    Fintech Leaders · 2026-05-26

    79 / 100

    …He co founded PayPal along with Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, invented anti fraud and cryptographic technology that is widely used and is still foundational to this day.…

  7. Employer Brand in the Age of LLMs with Duarte Mendonca (Director, Talent Acquisition at PayPal)

    Hiring On All Cylinders · 2026-05-28

    77 / 100

    …And, uh, he is from PayPal and runs the TA Operational Enablement and System Design.…

  8. S1E5 - Curating Innovation for FinTech Success - Alessandro Hatami

    Tales from the #FinTech Crypt · 2024-10-29

    77 / 100

    …From being one of the original members of the PayPal mafia, so to speak, to his days as a banker at Lloyds Bank with many other interesting stops in between, which he does mention in this conversation, Alessandro has always been driven by a need to create real impact.…

  9. What Would It Take For Insurers To Go Fully Digital? with Ian Drysdale, CEO of One Inc. | Episode 499

    Leaders In Payments · 2026-06-25

    74 / 100

    …We are paying not only the consumer, we might pay them with PayPal, Venmo, push to debit, Visa Direct, MasterCard said.…

  10. Julia Hartz, Eventbrite: From 27 Rejections to IPO and the Leadership Lessons That Followed

    Entreprenista · 2026-06-29

    74 / 100

    …was in San Francisco, and we would, you know, uh, trade off going up or down the coast to see each other, and I would take him to the MTV Movie Awards, and then he would take me to like, a, an early PayPal party.…

  11. How AI Agents are transforming internal audit

    Speaking of Risk and Audit · 2026-02-11

    74 / 100

    …Today, I have a special guest, another Richard, Richard Penfill, who is a data science manager in AIOps with PayPal.…

  12. Ep. 34 - The Good Guys in a Not So Great Industry

    Unicorn Leaders · 2026-06-26

    72 / 100

    …those websites, and 267 00:10:48,399 - > 00:10:52,080 that was like, so I'm in my my mid-20ness now, and we kept 268 00:10:52,080 - > 00:10:54,240 seeing that, and there wasn't much, there was like PayPal and 269 00:10:54,240 - > 00:10:54,879 Meneris.…

  13. Rerelease: Unleashing growth with the 'yes, and' strategy with PNC Bank CMO, Jenn Garbach

    Marketing Beyond with Alan B. Hart · 2026-04-01

    72 / 100

    …Prior to joining PNC in June of 2023, she served in leadership roles across PayPal, Capital One, and Thomson Reuters.…

  14. Pricing & Jobs to be Done with Matt Lerner of Startup Core Strengths

    SaaS Open Mic by ChartMogul · 2023-01-27

    72 / 100

    …Matt spent many years as a marketer and GM in Silicon Valley, including 10 years at PayPal.…

  15. EP 159: Demystifying Trust, AI Agents, and the Future of Digital Commerce with G2A

    Dave and Dharm DeMystify · 2026-06-09

    71 / 100

    …Because since we deliver 300 banking channels, working with companies like PayPal, Ideal Blick in Poland, so many different great payment providers, each and every of them has requirements from us.…

  16. How I’m Scaling My Business from 7 to 8 Figures

    Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal · 2025-01-03

    71 / 100

    …peaker C: One of the observations I had shortly after my time at PayPal was that if you first I look back at my time at PayPal and I realized like 90% of all of our growth came from five things.…

  17. The Machine Ate the Storefront, PayPal Mapped the Collapse

    Future Commerce · 2026-06-10

    69 / 100

    …Um, and that uh, you've been at PayPal for a couple years here building the ads business.…

  18. Stop Trying to Do It All! - Feedback, Mentors, & Being Human as a Product Manager

    Practical Product Management · 2025-06-04

    68 / 100

    …And you know, you might have some fancy venmo or, or PayPal or something sitting on top of the rails, but behind the scenes is the Rails, even with Stripe, you know.…

  19. Expanding access to financial tools that simplify critical business operations with Andrew Kanzer

    SMB Tech Innovators, powered by Gusto · 2025-10-07

    67 / 100

    …Grew that business, ended up selling it to PayPal.…

  20. Rethinking Payments: Square and Waave on Competition, Cost, and Choice

    FinTech Australia's Podcast · 2025-09-05

    62 / 100

    …peaker D: So Ben Zill, uh, a payment veteran so to speak, uh, being 15 years in the uh, payment industry, starting at PayPal, followed by Adyen, starting up uh, with uh, my other co founders Wave and um, now Wave, uh, has been sold to Banked as a company.…

  21. Fan Dollars, Creator Smiles: destream’s Payments Platform for Content Creators - with Tachat Igityan

    The Payments Show Podcast · 2024-07-31

    60 / 100

    …earlier, very, very personal to me because I've tried to monetize this podcast with varying degrees of success and it's quite challenging because if you look at a pure payment platform such as PayPal, okay, you can send a link but not everybody's comfortable with that.…

  22. Navigating the Ecommerce Evolution

    The Make it Big Podcast · 2025-05-14

    57 / 100

    …Others is, um, leveraging payment providers in this case like Stripe and PayPal, that have built in encryption and fraud protection that are already included.…

  23. From Assistants to Agents: The Future of AI in Financial Services

    Deciphered: The Fintech Podcast · 2025-11-24

    53 / 100

    …So let's introduce the people around the mics, starting with Mike Edmonds from PayPal.…

  24. Scott Conti, CEO of BB Merchant Services, on Smarter Payment Procurement

    Sourcing Industry Landscape · 2026-06-11

    47 / 100

    …It's like there's a big scope of what does that mean? You know, for instance, a lot of your, a lot of your members will take, uh, PayPal and they'll take, uh, the digital wallets of how to pay and how to accept payments.…

  25. Marketing, AI & Personal Branding: What Every Business Needs to Know with Jaki Kackert

    B2B Vault: The Biz To Biz Podcast · 2026-06-19

    42 / 100

    …If you're using Stripe Square, PayPal or QuickBooks, there's a good chance you're overpaying every single month.…

  26. The Book of Elon Takeaways Ft. Roohi(Host of Business Podcast by Roohi)

    Business Podcast by Roohi · 2026-05-28

    34 / 100

    …each company that he started he started with a want and a problem So Zip2 basically one of Elon companies started from Elon not being able to get a job in an internet company so he started his own PayPal, in some ways, started due to Elon wanting to go direct to customers.…

  27. FLASH: Google Goes ALL-IN on Agentic Commerce at NRF: UCP, Gemini Checkout, Shopify and more

    Retailgentic · 2026-01-11

  28. Why Digital Wallets Are Taking Over Vacation Rentals with Matthew Gurley of Lynnbrook

    The Vacation Rental Show, Hosted by Lynell Gordon · 2025-09-30

  29. NVIDIA's Georgios Kolovos on Revolut's PRAGMA, Transaction Foundation Models & the Agentic Banking!

    Fintech Conversations & Insights with Efi Pylarinou · 2026-05-07

    …We have Stripe and PayPal coming also to talk about each of these areas.…