PayPal
American worldwide online payments system
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Videos Mentioning PayPal
Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #252
Lex Fridman
Mentioned in context of money infrastructure and information theory about currency.
Balaji Srinivasan — How to Start a New Country
Tim Ferriss
Online payment system, mentioned to illustrate a technological predecessor to Bitcoin, with Bitcoin representing a significant 'unlock'.
E170: Tech's Vibe Shift, TikTok ban debate, Vertical AI boom, Florida bans lab-grown meat & more
All-In Podcast
Fintech company, cited as an example of an early internet era startup that required a dozen developers and significant infrastructure to launch an MVP.
Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates | Lex Fridman Podcast #173
Lex Fridman
A payment processor that has adopted Bitcoin, indicating mainstream financial institution engagement with cryptocurrency.
E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
All-In Podcast
A payment processing company, grouped with Adyen and Stripe as 'middlemen businesses' facing pricing power challenges and margin compression.
E167: Google's Woke AI disaster, Nvidia smashes earnings (again), Groq's LPU breakthrough & more
All-In Podcast
Mentioned in the context of how internet infrastructure improvements enabled the development of services like PayPal.
Vinod Khosla : How to Build the Future
Y Combinator
Mentioned as a famous example of a company where early employees' success spun off into new ventures.
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
All-In Podcast
David Sacks's former company, during which time he sought business education.
Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity
Y Combinator
Acquired Braintree (and thus Venmo), understanding the long-term investment required for payment platforms.
#AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
All-In Podcast
Mentioned in the context of David Sacks' work, where he observed that micropayments were not feasible due to transaction costs exceeding potential fees.
Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #284
Lex Fridman
Used as an example of a system for fast, instant credit transactions before the underlying monetary settlement occurs.
E163: Market rips, Media RIFs, Texas defies Biden, Fintech reckoning, ARkStorm 2.0 & more
All-In Podcast
Payments company cited as an example to explain how to avoid confusing gross payment volume with actual revenue due to high transaction costs and low margins.
Porn Addiction, The Corrosiveness of Secrets, and Books to Change Your Life | Jason Portnoy
Tim Ferriss
Jason Portnoy's first career venture, where he worked closely with technology icons and started as a financial analyst.
Jason Calacanis on Brooklyn Grit, Big Asks, The Magic of Thinking Big, and More
Tim Ferriss
Where David Sacks worked with Peter Thiel.
Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal | Lex Fridman Podcast #272
Lex Fridman
An online payment system that criminals, including Brett Johnson, exploited due to its initial lack of security, facilitating widespread fraud.
Running Your Company by Patrick Collison
Y Combinator
A competitor to Stripe, mentioned as a company the founders initially had to compete with and whose documentation was difficult to work with.
Relentless Focus, Full-Contact Entrepreneurship, Epigenetic Reprogramming, and More
Tim Ferriss
Traditional payment system used as a benchmark for transaction speeds, processing about 500 transactions per second, against which blockchain scalability is measured.
Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #264
Lex Fridman
An online payment system that X.com eventually became, illustrating another instance of Elon Musk succeeding against conventional wisdom.
E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
All-In Podcast
A public fintech company whose stock is down 30%, reflecting a slowdown in consumer demand.
Mark Normand: Comedy! | Lex Fridman Podcast #255
Lex Fridman
Online payment service, used in one of Mark Normand's jokes as a humorous misdirection for a 'Jewish app'.
Investing with the Best, Founder-Problem Fit, Pre-Mortems and Pre-Parades, and More — Roelof Botha
Tim Ferriss
An online payments system where Roelof Botha worked, and where he gained experience in managing fraud challenges and understanding financial engineering.
Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires | Lex Fridman Podcast #251
Lex Fridman
Online payment system, mentioned as the source of Elon Musk's initial wealth that funded his ambitions in space.
Productivity Expert: How To Finally Stay Productive: Ali Abdaal | E93
The Diary Of A CEO
An online payment system Ali Abdaal used at age 13 by lying about his age to make money freelance graphic design.
E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
All-In Podcast
Online payments system, whose historic reliance on eBay is used as an example of platform dependency risk.