Building Quote by Joe Lonsdale

Even by Silicon Valley standards, PayPal's vision was massively ambitious.

— Reid Hoffman

Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would…

— Eric Ries

PayPal benefited tremendously from having a close partnership with the eBay marketplace. It was a natural fit at the time.

— Dan Schulman

I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

— Walter Isaacson

Technology companies tend to operate in winner-take-all spaces and thus adopt a very high-commitment culture.

— Andrew Yang

Software is eating the financial services industry. We have a large addressable market for PayPal to play in.

— Dan Schulman

I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one.

— Bonnie Hammer

Technology has come a long way since PayPal.

— Max Levchin

I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge to pay…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

PayPal's been around forever. How do we use that platform to solve the future of commerce?

— Harper Reed

“Great companies first build a culture of discipline . . . and create a business model that fits squarely in the intersection of three…

— Isadore Sharp

I often talk about the PayPal mafia out of San Francisco, people that were in PayPal and got out of PayPal and continue to…

— Ryan Holmes