Episode 11: PayPal

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Venturecapital, Ma, Investing, Acquisitions, Startups, Vc, Investment, Business, Technology

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ben and David return to technology acquisitions by examining a classic: eBay's 2002 purchase of PayPal.

Sponsors:
Vanta: https://bit.ly/acquiredvanta

Statsig: bit.ly/statsigacquired
Modern Treasury: https://bit.ly/acquiredmoderntreasury

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0:00.0	Yeah, in fact there's Drake lyrics. I got enemies, got a lot of people trying to keep me from,
0:06.4	yeah, I don't know the rest, but it's great.
0:08.3	Who got the truth? Is it you, is it you, is it you, is it you, who got the truth now?
0:15.0	Is it you, is it you, is it you, is it you,
0:18.0	sit me down, say it straight, another story on the way who got the truth.
0:25.0	Welcome to episode 11 of acquired, the show where we talk about technology acquisitions that actually went well.
0:32.0	I'm Ben Gilbert. I'm David Rosenthal and this is our show.
0:36.8	Today we are talking about eBay acquiring PayPal. An older acquisition, one that kind of set the
0:46.4	tone for a lot of modern technology acquisitions, changed the Valley forever,
0:51.2	birth the PayPal Mafia, lots of great stuff to come.
0:54.0	But first wanted to remind you if you have not yet and you like the show, would really appreciate a review on iTunes.
1:01.0	Yeah, and as always hit us up on Twitter acquired at acquired FM or at
1:07.2	Gilbert or at DJ Rosen.
1:09.2	We love feedback.
1:10.2	We do.
1:11.2	We do we promise we'll listen and we'll try and make it better. We've heard rumors that audio
1:15.6	audio is a little quiet in the past so working hard to make sure that we
1:20.6	release that you know appropriate listening
1:23.3	volume now we're iterating we are we are a little start up ourselves is cute
1:28.7	also I apologize for for the last like month of no episode we got some people saying, finally a new episode.
1:34.3	I had aCL surgery, but I'm a real human now
1:37.3	and I'm fully off the oxycodone,
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