On this day in 2002 eBay acquired PayPal.
PayPal founders / early staff went on to launch:
• Airbnb
• Eventbrite
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Lyft
• Palantir
• Pinterest
• Quora
• Reddit
• SpaceX
• Square
• Tesla
• Tumblr
• Twilio
• Uber
• Yelp
• YouTube
• Zynga
Their commonality? Solving hard, “impossible” #problems — bypassing a stale and powerful payments’ industry with PayPal — a principle applied to most of the other #startups listed above.
The moral of history? Go for the #impossible projects. Life’s too short for easy shit. 😉
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