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I remember creating my account and linking my bank account to my paypal account. Seemed like the future, then ebay had to buy it. Now I don't have any of my b
by chayesfss 14y ago
I remember creating my account and linking my bank account to my paypal account. Seemed like the future, then ebay had to buy it. Now I don't have any of my bank/credit cards linked to it and actually put in my credit card info for each thing I purchase or subscribe to on the internet.
- mmahemoff 14y agoLooking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia, it's striking that YouTube and many other companies may have been eBay's greatest (unintended) contribution.
- stephenhuey 14y agoWhen my cousin Kenny told me about how he was starting Paypal, I was fresh off the boat from high school in Nigeria and had barely begun using the internet, so this sounded very magical. And it truly was, because it really felt futuristic when college friends would pay each other back by giving cash online. When I proudly told them my cousin was at Paypal, it impressed the non-geeks just as much as the geeks because it was so easy for everyone to sense the impact of this technology.
- yuhong 14y agoYea, eventually eBay finally paid attention and that was how David Marcus was hired from the startup world (I was thinking this was a good idea for a while now): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4494216 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4494216