Description
The PayPal Wars is an insider's perspective on the people and events that helped create the company and its acquisition by eBay in 2002. The book recounts PayPal's clashes with lawyers, regulators, and the Mafia. It also provides background information on PayPal's battles with the Google Checkout payments system. Many of PayPal's founding employees went on to start other companies like LinkedIn, YouTube, and Yelp, Inc., they would be known as the PayPal Mafia.
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