PayPal

…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.…

…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 .…

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

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

…peaker B: At eBay and PayPal.…

…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.…

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

…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.…

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

…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.…

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

…He then spent 35 years at Sequoia Capital, backing Google, Yahoo, PayPal and YouTube.…

…So, uh, you know, you've worked for, Amongst other companies, GE, Walmart, you, uh, know, two titans and then, you know, PayPal and eBay, not quite as big, but certainly prominent, well respected companies.…

…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.…

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

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

…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.…

…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.…

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

…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.…

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

…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.…

…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.…

…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.…

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

…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.…

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

…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.…

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

…Alternative payments, you mentioned them uh, are of course also very important and in some countries there are not even alternative but the standard, uh, like in Germany with PayPal or um, in the Netherlands with Ideal.…

…peaker C: These days, the cases that I've worked on a, ah, lot of the times they're using money apps, cash app, Venmo, PayPal, uh, or cash for example.…