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One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup – and I lost every dollar.

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If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That’s why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done.

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The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it’s very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.

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May 21, 2024

The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it’s very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.

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May 21, 2024

If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That’s why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done.

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