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PayPal: The Complete History and Strategy

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Ben and David return to technology acquisitions by examining a classic: eBay's 2002 purchase of PayPal. ‍ Items mentioned in the show: How the 'PayPal Mafia' redefined success in Silicon Valley - Tech Republic Instagram Will Be a $3 Billion Business This Year: Analyst President Obama and Bill Simmons: The GQ Interview ‍ "The Carve Out": Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder The Bill Simmons Podcast - Chris Sacca Sponsors: We finally did it. After five years and over 100 episodes, we decided to formalize the answer to Acquired’s most frequently asked question: “what are the best acquisitions of all time?” Here it is: The Acquired Top Ten. You can listen to the full episode (above, which includes honorable mentions), or read our quick blog post below. Note: we ranked the list by our estimate of absolute dollar return to the acquirer. We could have used ROI multiple or annualized return, but we decided the ultimate yardstick of success should be the absolute dollar amount added to

PayPal | Acquired so Cloudflare URLs win cascade before parses and triggers font fetches --> back transcript • Season 1 | episode 11 PayPal Ben: Yeah, in fact those Drake lyrics, “I got enemies, got a lot of enemies, got a lot of people trying to keep me from…” Yeah, I don’t know the rest but it’s great. Welcome to Episode 11 of Acquired, the show where we talk about technology acquisitions that actually went well. I’m Ben Gilbert. David: I’m David Rosenthal. Ben: And this is our show. Today, we are talking about eBay acquiring PayPal. An older acquisition, one that kind of set the tone for a

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