PayPal: The Greatest Startup Story of All Time
This has been one of my favourite stories to cover, because you have such big characters who are now very much sitting on the top of the table business wise - we’re talking Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, David Sacks and many more.
And it’s fascinating to recall how these guys started out and nearly didn’t make it
There is so much drama in the story with boardroom coups, Russian fraudsters, Musk being forced to merge his company against his will, the dotcom bubble bursting- I loved it
Click on the following link to go our article on this episode where we have links to our main sources as well as relevant photos: gbspod.com/blog/paypal-greatest-startup-story-of-all-time
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