It’s truly remarkable how much an impact that PayPal has had on the modern fintech infrastructure we take for granted today. Without them, the one-click digital payment experience we enjoy today may have taken another decade or more to evolve.
Even more remarkable were the number of challenges that the Confinity and X.com teams narrowly cleared individually, and the wars that were narrowly won as a combined force. Should they have failed, dozens of revolutionary companies may have never seen the light of day including Affirm, LinkedIn, SpaceX, Tesla, Yelp, Youtube, and many more.