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“One problem with the discipline of marketing is that everyone knows enough about it to make suggestions, but most don’t know enough to offer good advice.”
― Paypal Wars
― Paypal Wars
“Companies holding broad patents and trial lawyers specializing in class actions must have seen easy money when they looked at Paypal, and without laws to discourage frivolous lawsuits there was nothing to deter them.”
― The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth
― The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth
“Schumpeter chose the term "creative destruction" to describe the introduction of new innovations into the economy for a reason—as the case of PayPal shows, it's a strife-filled process. A half-dozen startup competitors were quick to follow PayPal's lea before eBay got in on the act. And that's just representatives of the so-called new economy. The fact that many banks either entered the online payments market directly or lobbied for regulations against it showed that the old guard was not prepared to go silently into the night.”
― The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth
― The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth
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