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One of my favourite stories was Paypal - they spent tonnes of their money buying things on eBay and demanding to only pay with PayPal.
by jonplackett 5y ago
One of my favourite stories was Paypal - they spent tonnes of their money buying things on eBay and demanding to only pay with PayPal.
- degenerate 5y agoThat's so dirty, and very fitting for PayPal.
- adventured 5y agoPayPal's most effective technique by a dramatic margin was paying users $10 to get other users to sign up. It was an early example of using that sign-up referral payment approach at scale online. https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-paypal-paid-customers-2014-9 https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-paypal-paid-cust...
- jonplackett 5y agoI remember the good days when Uber paid £20 per sign up here in the UK. I was on early and would just round people up at the end of a house party by shouting “who wants a free taxi home?!”. I had free service for about a year.
- jcun4128 5y agoLong time ago (2010 or earlier) I sold some things on eBay/had money in PayPal only place I could cash it out at the time was Home Depot that was supporting their money... was interesting, would buy some peanuts/an Ice Tea.