The Importance of Thinking Hard

If I gave advice to my younger self it would be to really think hard why was I doing these things. There is always a secret at the core of every great business there's some sort of research program that or some area that people are really really focused on. At PayPal we were very interested in sort of the crypto currencies and encryption technology and currencies could they be intersected Could you build a new digital currency? That question animated us tremendously. We didn't quite succeed in building one at PayPal even though we had t-shirts that said "We're going to be the new world currency"

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