PayPal Mafia culture -- as explained by the people who lived it: 1. Extreme Focus 2. Dedication to individual accomplishment 3. Refusal to accept constraints, external or internal 4. Radical transparency on metrics 5. Meritocratic opportunity 6.... See more

The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.

If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the

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PayPal’s acquisition of Pinterest would create a formidable Content Fortress: by combining PayPal’s payments platform with Pinterest’s advertising infrastructure, it could allow advertisers to bring about purchases for their products directly in the Pinterest app, which would give Pinterest first-party access to the data emitted by those... See more

Pinterest introduced the “Shop from Pin” feature in 2020, which gives retailers the ability to include shopping ads for specific, relevant products directly into Pinterest search content and feeds. But these ads currently lead to retailer websites, where transactions take place outside of Pinterests’ purview. PayPal’s ownership would provide the... See more