Some Lessons Learned

Peter enjoyed pointing out that while most things valuable are pretty hard to do, few truly difficult things are of much value at all (the many possible examples are obvious). Underwriting risk in millions of real-time financial transactions per day is a tricky, but very lucrative, business at scale -- PayPal is a valuable solution to real problems

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It is clear that the path forward for me is to seek that balance of hard, valuable, and fun in every project I start, join, back, or advise. Hard is for intellectual engagement, the search for solution by any means necessary. Valuable is the knowledge that if this, whatever this is, works, the world will never be the same. Fun is the sense of passi

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