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  Christina Lee (@_Rina__Lee) reported 52 seconds ago

  you can pre-sell a product that doesn't exist yet, use the money to build it, and deliver it 2 weeks later. this sounds like a scam. it's how every software company, every course creator, and every successful launch in history actually works step 1: post about the problem you're going to solve. for 5-7 days. "here's what most people get wrong about X." "here's what i'd include if i built the ultimate guide to X." "who would want a step-by-step breakdown of exactly how i did X" step 2: count the replies. the DMs. the "me" comments. that's your pre-sale audience. they just told you they want it before it exists step 3: post "i'm building this. it'll be ready in 2 weeks. first 20 people get it at $27 instead of $47. DM me to lock in the early price" step 4: collect payment. through gumroad, stripe, paypal. whatever. the money arrives. now you have a funded deadline. the product isn't built yet. the motivation isn't an idea anymore. it's money sitting in your account from people who are waiting step 5: build it. in 2 weeks. the deadline is real because people paid. the pressure produces better work than 6 months of "getting it perfect" because perfection has no deadline and deadlines have no room for perfection step 6: deliver it. collect testimonials. screenshot the reactions. those screenshots sell the next batch at $47 without you having to convince anyone because the proof already exists from round one you just launched a product with zero inventory. zero risk. zero upfront cost. funded entirely by the people who bought it before it existed. the "scam" is actually the lowest-risk business model available because the market validated the idea with money before you spent a single hour building it

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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 2 minutes ago

  The eBay check that bought PayPal in 2002 funded the founders of Tesla, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Palantir. The deal was announced on July 8, 2002, on the front page of the New York Times business section. The article you are looking at is that story. It was written by Matt Richtel. It ran 900 words and treated the transaction as a routine consolidation between two internet companies that had been circling each other for years. The purchase price was one and a half billion dollars in eBay stock. Negotiated and closed in a week. eBay had spent the previous two years trying to build its own competing payment product called Billpoint, had put thirty five million dollars into it as recently as March 2002, and gave up. On the day the acquisition closed, eBay announced Billpoint was being shut down. This is what losing to a better product looks like written into an acquisition announcement. The details in the article are the boring version of the story. The interesting version happened in the six months after. PayPal had about a hundred and fifty employees at the time of the sale. Fewer than thirty of them held meaningful equity. When the eBay stock cleared, most of those thirty people had between five and one hundred and eighty million dollars in liquid capital. They were mostly under thirty five years old. Almost none of them wanted to stay at eBay. Peter Thiel walked out with about fifty five million dollars and used it to co-found Palantir the following year and to start Founders Fund two years after that. Elon Musk walked out with about one hundred and eighty million and put most of it into SpaceX, which he had founded three months earlier, and into Tesla, where he led the Series A in 2004. Reid Hoffman took his exit money and started LinkedIn in December 2002. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim were engineers at PayPal who left with smaller checks and used them to start YouTube in 2005. Max Levchin took his money and eventually founded Affirm. Jeremy Stoppelman left and started Yelp. David Sacks left and started Yammer. Roelof Botha left PayPal's CFO seat and joined Sequoia, where he became one of the most successful venture investors of his generation. That group started to get called the PayPal Mafia around 2007 when Fortune ran a cover story on them, all standing around in Godfather suits. The combined value of the companies they founded, seeded, or ran after PayPal is over three trillion dollars. The eBay check that made all of that possible was a footnote in the 2002 New York Times business section. The reason the pattern is worth studying is that it is not really about the money. Twenty five people getting rich on the same day is a common story. It has happened a hundred times at other IPOs and acquisitions. The unusual thing is that this specific twenty five went on to found the next generation of the industry that had just paid them. Most exits produce quiet millionaires who buy houses in Palo Alto and take a decade off. PayPal's exit produced a wave of founders who started their next company within eighteen months. The best guess for why is not the capital. It is the confidence and the network. When you have built one thing that worked and cashed out at thirty two, and everyone in your closest circle also built one thing that worked and cashed out at thirty two, the psychological cost of starting the next one drops to almost zero. You do not need to raise from strangers. Your first ten investors are your former colleagues. Your first hire is somebody who used to sit two desks away. I keep this article printed on my wall as a reminder that the deals that look small in the moment are the ones that seed the next twenty years. The check was one and a half billion dollars. The return, measured across the next two decades of companies, was closer to three trillion.

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  Rich C (@RichRedVoices) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Prolific Hi. I cashed out a mixed £/$ amount today. The £ arrived but the $ have not. I’ve been cashing out both currencies for years to my PayPal without issue. Can you help?

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  Crisbuca (@Crisbuca) reported 4 minutes ago

  @CoachNassimm @coachmaxenfn I mean maybe give him time to fix paypal and then resolve problem u didn’t even try understand that his paypal wasn’t working

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  Numan (@Numan_Ai12) reported 8 minutes ago

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  . (@DatMLBro) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Fosudo The issue isn’t just Nigeria’s reputation. India has its own fraud and financial crime problems, yet PayPal serves them. The difference is leverage: India can push back. Nigeria’s weak institutions often leave us begging for access instead of demanding fair treatment.

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  tomoko☄️ (@tomoko194he) reported 9 minutes ago

  양도 태민 콘서트 selling at cost bc i'm moving down 😭💞 9/18 section 31 (center) 9/19 section 33 🍒 global ticket, meet at the venue :) 🍒 kr bank transfer or paypal ok any verification possible!!! will cancel if no one wants :)

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  🎀 𝐵𝑒𝓉𝒽 🎀 (@Bethsparepat) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Parker17Luna @PayPal It’s just an error. Try updating your PayPal app so this issue can hopefully be resolved.

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  leafs (@dannysleafs) reported 13 minutes ago

  @lql_00 Gosh that sucks, really sorry to hear that. This is seriously not okay at all, so many I heard having this issue unfortunately. I hope you can get it resolved asap. If you paid with PayPal under 6 months, try filing a refund through PayPal!!

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  Timofei from adenslab.com (@timopowerz) reported 18 minutes ago

  @mdniamul0 the off-site paypal point is real, but don't assume every client-side setup misses the purchase..... many flows return to a confirmation page and fire correctly i'd compare paypal completed orders against browser purchase events first. if the gap is real, webhook/capi is the fix..... with a stable event_id so browser + server don't double count

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  Heather Peter | Tangem CS (@TheHeatherPeter) reported 19 minutes ago

  Hello 👋🏻 @jeffleonard000, this is UX/confirmation issue with PayPal Express checkout flow but since you got a confirmation email, good. Is your Tangem updated to the latest version?

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  MUSSE (@Musse1969) reported 24 minutes ago

  And if people are donation from an Apple device, they want money too, so the final revenue can come down to 50% and thats why he has cashapp and paypal too.

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  S 👑 EST.19XX ♊️ (@Simply_SunriseX) reported 25 minutes ago

  Down price $75 PayPal

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  ****** (@wankingpaypig) reported 25 minutes ago

  @marytazzzz I sent something via PayPal but some error occurred.

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  Bubble Puppy VT 🫧🐶 Tamagotchi Vtuber (@BubblePuppyVT) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Sinbadstardust This is so tragic!?! Is this a paypal issue? Are you in or out of the US, because there may be alternate routes to take!