PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)

2001 for me. was largely a year of trying to scale this thing as it was just blowing the doors off with its growth. Every week the growth would just be so much more than the systems could handle. Every Monday when eBay auctions would settle. this would just go down for multiple hours. And at some point our head of database scalability, who was also a very accomplished blues singer and guitarist, brought his guitars.

to the office and would play the Munday Blues because we all knew The site would crash. Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. They built. I'm Guy Raz and on the show today, how Max Legend took an idea nobody cared about.

transformed it into PayPal. A brand that embodied startup culture with its rapid rise. hairpin turns, and world famous founders. There are just a few companies in tech whose overall impact Went a lot further than just the products they produced.

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