
Episode 11: PayPal
Acquired
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You Can't Just Transfer, It's Easy, Yo, to Remember
i was a freshman's sophomore in high at this time. i remember my classmates trading internet stocks during breaks betweena,. between classes in high school, n my freshman year. I think ultimately it was a control play where there was risk that was going on by paypal and they wanted to bring that in house. They were clearly building it themselves. And an opportunity to bring this in house, probably the right one, and they took it. Now, what it turned into, i think, was a bohemoth that they, you know, was not in the cards at the time. You can't build a big company, a really big company, on the back of somebody else's platform
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