Company
PayPal
Online payments company enabling digital money transfers and transactions.
PayPal
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- Deb LiuSucceeding as an introvert, building zero-to-one, and PM’ing your career like a product
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Transcript mentions
… was very difficult to get a job at PayPal unless you had a first degree or second degree connection uh to the engineering team or to Peter through Stanford, which is a different type of recruiting model.
… The last thing I'll say just as a funny illustration of that concept is I think Max Levchin tells the story of somebody interviewing at PayPal early on and he passed all the skill interviews and then it just got to the final round and he…
… And Tim Wenzel put together the PayPal Mafia. He was the recruiter for PayPal.
… (00:57:20): Other end of the spectrum you've got something like PayPal. So it's a tech company, it's got a single global tech stack.
- Julian Shapiro00:13:48
… So for example, if I'm using PayPal and I'm sending $1,000 to somebody else, there is no way they will not create a PayPal account to accept $1,000. So by me trying to use PayPal in its...
Company
PayPal
Online payments company enabling digital money transfers and transactions.
Mentioned In5
- Deb LiuSucceeding as an introvert, building zero-to-one, and PM’ing your career like a product
- Nilan PeirisHow to drive word of mouth
- Julian ShapiroGrowth tactics, retention strategies, and becoming a better writer
- Nabeel S. QureshiHow Palantir built the ultimate founder factory
- Keith RaboisHard truths about building in the AI era
Transcript mentions
… was very difficult to get a job at PayPal unless you had a first degree or second degree connection uh to the engineering team or to Peter through Stanford, which is a different type of recruiting model.
… The last thing I'll say just as a funny illustration of that concept is I think Max Levchin tells the story of somebody interviewing at PayPal early on and he passed all the skill interviews and then it just got to the final round and he…
… And Tim Wenzel put together the PayPal Mafia. He was the recruiter for PayPal.
… (00:57:20): Other end of the spectrum you've got something like PayPal. So it's a tech company, it's got a single global tech stack.
- Julian Shapiro00:13:48
… So for example, if I'm using PayPal and I'm sending $1,000 to somebody else, there is no way they will not create a PayPal account to accept $1,000. So by me trying to use PayPal in its...