PayPaler

English Etymology From en PayPal er occupation. Noun An employee of PayPal. en w:Sarah Lacy Sell Out Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0 Gotham Books, Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2008 237 https://archive.org/details/onceyoureluckytw0000lacy/page/237/mode/1up 978-1-592-40382-0 The company had merged with Sequoia [Capital]-backed X.com, and [Michael] Moritz had insisted on a grown-up CEO to run the combined company. The offer that came back from investors was a $200 million round at a $500 million pre-money valuation. Sounds rich, right? The PayPalers were insulted. It was the height of the bubble; they all thought PayPal was the next great [Silicon] Valley company and should be worth far more than that. en Steven Bertoni The wallet wars w:Chicago Tribune 166th year 57 26 February 2014 section 1A 11 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/240956807/ 3 It’s not that he [David Marcus] thinks PayPal should be a stand-alone; he says he would prefer if eBay simply sold it to a more natural fit, such as a Visa. “Another giant in the space would pay a huge premium for PayPal.” [Elon] Musk and other former PayPalers like [David Oliver] Sacks would prefer that it operate as a stand-alone, arguing that, once unchained, it could eventually be worth $100 billion (compared with the $40 billion or so it’s valued at today). en w:Gary Rivlin Venture Capital 101 Becoming a Venture Capitalist w:Simon & Schuster 2019 17–18 https://books.google.com/books?id=ejxqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18 978-1-5011-6789-8 A half-dozen years later, Peter Thiel, a cofounder of PayPal, led (meaning he put in more money than anyone else) a small group of Silicon Valley veterans investing in Facebook only a few months after [Mark] Zuckerberg had launched a social network aimed at connecting classmates and friends. Thiel personally invested $500,000 in Facebook in 2004. Eight years later, after the company went public, his stake was worth more than $1 billion. Fellow PayPaler Reid Hoffman was preoccupied with a new company he had cofounded called LinkedIn, but he threw in another $37,500—an investment that would be worth more than $100 million.