The best startups solve problems their founders have personally experienced.

entrepreneurshipstartupsStanford lecture, 2015

Credit cards are designed to be confusing. We built Affirm to be the opposite.

fintechtransparencyCNBC Interview, 2021

If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

productstartupsInterview with TechCrunch, 2014

Fraud detection at PayPal was an arms race. The fraudsters were incredibly creative. We had to be more creative.

fraudinnovationFounders at Work (book by Jessica Livingston), 2007

I came to this country with nothing. That gives you a very different relationship with risk — when you've already lost everything once, starting over isn't as scary.

immigrationresilienceInterview, 2019