How I’m Scaling My Business from 7 to 8 Figures
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Hey friends, welcome back to Deep Dive, the podcast where it's my immense pleasure to sit down with entrepreneurs, creators, authors, and other inspiring people, and we find out how they got to where they are and the strategies and tools we can learn from them to help build a life that we love. In this video, we're looking back at previous episodes where I look at the best advice on scaling a business from some of our previous guests. So without further ado, here we are. One of the observations I had shortly after my time at PayPal was that if you first I look back at my time at PayPal and I realized like 90% of all of our growth came from like five things. Oh, wait, how?
So like, I mean, early on before I got there, they got onto eBay and eBay started sellers started using it and then they wrote a a bot to start bidding on eBay items and pretending to be a buyer and asking if they would accept PayPal. And the sellers were like, oh, well, yeah, sure. And so eBay was a huge early growth engine, then reaching out to web developers, because that's the people who are implementing e-commerce. And then we figured out that about the time I got there, they figured out that a lot of e-commerce sites just get built on a platform like the early versions of Shopify type businesses.
So we reached out to all the shopping carts and hosting companies and got pre-integrated with all of those. And there were, you know, a few more things, international expansion and a few others, but really not many. Okay. And uh what's your sense of how many things the team tried to grow, of which five worked? Right.
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