The Student Who Built a $300 Billion Empire: "All because I slept in class"

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PayPal is one of the world’s largest online payment companies - valued at over $300 billion.
Its service is available in more than 200 countries and has over 400 million consumer and merchant accounts.
And it all started with a struggling student who was ditched by his girlfriend and thrown out of his own place before meeting two strangers who would turn his life around.
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there is one slight problem, there are only 195 countries in the world, so it shouldn't be over 200

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Please do a story on *APPLE*

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[@edwardeno1314]

Amazing that PayPal is used in over 200 countries in the world, especially considering there are only 195 countries in the world. Now that is a truly amazing feat.

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depends on who you ask

[@relaxingsleepaudio2320]

LOl, very funny but there are 5 undiscovered countries in the Continent of Antarctica where they use Paypal.

[@chriskill08]

The definition of a "country" is not settled. The amount differs based on which resource you use

[@Zeliman]

cough* ALLIENS

[@MrTeeri4]

There are 204 country and territories. Andorra is considered one. Many British crown territories etc. America has many over seas small islands so this is how we get over 200 countries or territories but narrator should have clarified that.

[@edenleave2054]

This guy wasn’t exactly homeless plus he was an expert programmer which is a skill

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Not as catchy I guess lol

[@pkmohammed]

Not having a home is homeless

[@pkmohammed]

Skills won't change

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@@hamzareed9688 lol

[@RonDLite]

Having a skill does not mean having a home

[@nguyenhongan]

Imagine selling your business and then you and your employees create billion dollar companies

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Some people live at the edge of life, so fun

[@rohuq6304]

It seems that all successful people have these rabbit hole backstories.

[@_x.x_]

I think a lot of us have these rabbit hole backstories as well. It's just that sucessful people stories are popular and others nobody cares lol

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Sneaking in to sleep at lectures is also genius because it’s a natural place to find some people sleeping.

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One of the most resourceful creators on YT, thank you.

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awesome tips and great story !!!

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Such a Amazing story

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That’s why you should always be grateful for every moment in your life because those moments will be rewarding

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Yeah... I hope 😔

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He should thank ex girlfriend for dumping him otherwise he won't get rich

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Lol true

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@GhostPlayz he does indeed

[@wunwwins6395]

what if you were dumped out of your house by your family and won the lottery by a ticket you found and they said "you should thank us for dumping you otherwise you wouldn't be rich"

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No one understands this is sarcasm?

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@@wunwwins6395 then he should thank his family and invest wisely

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Excellent video!!

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Simply amazing story, rising from the ashes.

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thank you for this

[@Hasan0698]

Insane how many hurdles big money companies gives you to crush your dreams. Glad they made it!

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

Now they own the big money companies though

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Amazing inspiring video

[@zenieche]

It is very sad at first where he was dumped by his girlfriend friend and kicked out of his apartment

[@Steppenkater]

I hope his ex-girlfriend regret it now.

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It's slash, not backslash. Absolutely maddening.

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I like it when he put a rickroll link in the video and not many people actually notice it lol

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Paypal Mafia gives me a goosebumps

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There’s always one legend and hero in every story. “Max” was that legend

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Wait… so PayPal was practically the backbone of a few of the extremely successful companies these days and helped them develop and start their businesses!?!?!?!

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It's also really good for artist

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Richard Branson backed Ring who sold it to Amazon for a billion dollars. If your idea has value... and your business plan is solid you will have no problems attracting money.

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The best one you have done! They are all good but this one was the best!

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you never know who someone might become

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Very interesting story!

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The old crew became boss after all the hard work.

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Thank You So Much for creating PayPal for the World as an Alternative Payment System!

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They are well deserved super rich because they made a really useful product and worked very hard to succeed

[@testing6753]

Try telling that to the liberals

[@dtbredhalf5823]

and they were white.... that alone gives u half a chance..smfh

[@testing6753]

@@dtbredhalf5823 that may be true but what's more true is victim mentality won't get you anywhere. I'm an non white immigrant living in the US and I have more opportunities here than I ever will in my native country

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

Umm they all had a huge amount of luck in the beginning. Try sleeping at the back of stanford lectures and see what happens to you

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@@twitter.comelomhycy Nothing. You'd simply be woken up if you're too obvious but if it's a crowded lecture no one will notice or care. It's your money you'd be wasting anyway. It's not like the school is free.

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11:53 very funny rick roll

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L found it too

[@arthurjoseph2148]

HAD I SLEPT IN CLASS, I WOULD HAD NOT GOTTEN 3 TRILLION DOLLARS, I WOULDA GOT 3 TRILLION WHIPPINS!😡😠👎😭😟

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Wow a lot of history and lessons learned, didn't know they were the leaders in using captcha.

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Such An Amazon story .

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Lesson learned you can't believe everything in the net . A long time ago a so called expert says that Elon Musk was the creator of paypal now I found that's not the case thanks for sharing 👍

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No lesson learnt. The lesson you should learn is don't believe everything that the media say.

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@@Truthseeker371 if you read my coment you said what I said obviously 😁

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Don't get your 100% info from internet.

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It seems the road to success always has to go through tunnels of failures

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true!

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Nicely put 👌

[@shamandesmith538]

There's several variables involved with this first if Elon were to take the challenge second the location of which he's supposed to spend his time being homeless. . third how much time is the challenge? Now if you say for a day then he'll survive that if you tell him to survive a week like that he might not even make it alive depending on the location y'all put them in.

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I barely understood what you said but YES!

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I wasn't ready

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You shall be

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Very interesting. Absolutely brilliant job...

[@JS-gf6uc]

When i was in school you would not sleep in Class.

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Making it in life need resilience...

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So much has changed since I joined eBay in 2003.

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These videos are always so well produced!

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Jesus won a dozen gold medals including one for Australia

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Now we know why Elon doesn't take vacations.

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Paypal PTSD moments trigger

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LOL

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correction: Elon Stock

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Yes

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Lol, this has me thinking of the 'Anti-Elon' and 'Anti-Tesla' traders that shorted Tesla stocks, they were all millionaires but now homeless I think.

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Haha

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Anger is a tenacious driver to success.

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Fun fact, Elon Musk did not start/ found Tesla !

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But he might as well have. Wall Street billionaires were doing any and everything they could to take it down, but Elon managed to get it as far as it is.

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We know

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Love all your videos. Can you make one of google and yahoo please.

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owwwww such nice history.

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paypal story is fascinating

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Wow 👏 . .

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Did somebody put a Good Place reference in there? On the account names, two are "Chidi A." and "Eleanor S.".

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11:51 that link id seems oddly familiar...

[@188lobo]

Every story I've ever heard has said that Elon musk started PayPal and became rich off of it after selling Zip. This is the first time I'm hearing this.

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Same here

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CONGRATULATIONS 👏 AND LOTS OF LOVE AND BLESSINGS ❣️

[@JohnSmith-ut5th]

Then: "Why don't I help you while you build your software?" Now: (Begs for scraps like a dog and doesn't get any... ends up in a homeless camp.)

[@KIVIDiana]

Wait what?!

[@zehc4]

if you didn’t notice, the url’s ending letters and numbers are the rick roll link.

[@CUBETechie]

2:22 why his degrees get worse? Didn't he finished the university with PhD?

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Taken back** not taking it back

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Google only care for those who had PHDs hahaha

[@diamondminer5573]

Imagine your ex becoming the richest man in the world

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You display the titels of the sequences waaay too long for an information hungry and entertainment hungry audience ugghh Asside from that rly great video👌👌

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its called luck

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I love seeing these determination stories

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Next do a story on google! 😊👌

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11:52 nice rickroll

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Hook: 1:27 It’s a forward slash

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No aircon, if you so smart, get a fan or 2

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Now we have REVOLUT

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Hey hook can you make a video about how whatsapp was made

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These videos are always really interesting and well done. Only thing that confuses me is you called a forward slash a backslash at the beginning

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My favorite Channel

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Sneaky rickroll at 11:53

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11:52 Nice Easter egg

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These stories are always so interesting and inspirational!

[@seraglioborneo2803]

Paypal guy is lucky. What if the GF remained his GF? :) There's another video in Reddit where stay at home GF goes around claiming EIGHTY % of credit for a guy's hard work getting two top accounting degrees and earning a s++tload of money at his job! And gets really angry when he laughs after she says this to her family.

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Nice

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It's called falling into a goldmine

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The problem with a gold mine is you still have to work it to get the money out, I suppose if it is big enough you could hire people to dig it out for you.

[@WordDefinition]

so in order for u to get rich to sleep in class, which is disrespecting the teacher, the class, the school. wow I will have my kids sleep in class and earn tons of money and when they rich don’t bother donating to your boring class. Social media rocks! they love clicks

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OK, IT'S ALL FINE AND DANDY, BUT ARE THEY REALLY HAPPY ????

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now i know ...

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Play pal isn't in my country 😅

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I wasn’t prepared for Elon Musk at all

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Over 200 countries seriously, there are only 197 countries 😆

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Pay pal mafia xd

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wait, what?!