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urban sheepExtreme Focus / Dedication to individual accomplishment / Refusal to accept constraints, external or internal / Driven problem solvers / Self-sufficiency / Extreme bias towards action / Willingness to try / Data-driven decision making / Radical transparen
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akamarckPayPal's employees have gone on to do great things, but what was the secret of the company's can-do culture? Posting to an online Q-and-A forum, former company insiders credit an extreme focus on specific goals and areas of responsibility, a culture of se
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arobertWe were expected to pursue our #1 priority with extreme dispatch (NOW) and vigor. To borrow an apt phrase, employees were expected to “come to work every day willing to be fired, to circumvent any order aimed at stopping your dream.” Jeremy Stoppelman has
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Chandika JayBelow are some highlights of their answers. *If you want to check out the sources or leave your comments, please go to here and here.
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Paul SweeneyAwesome. Nail to wall. RT @nauiokaspark: Why did so many successful startups come out of PayPal? Answered by Insiders http://bit.ly/9pfxBf [from http://twitter.com/PaulSweeney/statuses/17278287395]
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29 Jun 10
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ken ."I once asked David Sacks the same question during an event in Los Angeles. He told me the secret is that Paypal has built a “scrappy” culture. No matter what problems they faced, they would find a way to solve them"
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whip_lashSo when I saw some of the past Paypal employees answering this question on Quora, I was super excited! After all, they should be the only ones who can tell people the inside stories.
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Matt Garmurgood description of what went on inside paypal with some more or less concrete examples.
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Riitta RaesmaaWhy did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal? Answered by Insiders http://bit.ly/9c7C0O /via @vpsingh
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Peter required that everyone be tasked with exactly one priority
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enforced an anti-meeting culture where any meeting that included more than 3-4 people was deemed suspect and subject to immediate adjournment if he gauged it inefficient.
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individuals and small teams were given fairly complex objectives and expected to figure out how to achieve them on their own
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So you never started a sentence like this “I feel like it’s a problem that our users can’t do X”, instead you’d do your homework first and then come to the table with “35% of our [insert some key metric here] are caused by the lack of X functionality
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