This seems like a good illustration of the principle: "Ideas are worthless. Execution is what matters." Paypal had the idea first and a good 10 years worth of

This seems like a good illustration of the principle: "Ideas are worthless. Execution is what matters." Paypal had the idea first and a good 10 years worth of trying to make it work (payments from mobile devices was, after all, their first product, even pre-dating online payments). And in this case, they even had some of the same team working on the idea, but they just couldn't make it happen. Google could, and did, so they'll win. I can understand why PayPal would be upset. But really this just strikes me as another reason why we shouldn't get too worked up about the value of ideas.