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The best startups solve problems their founders have personally experienced.

entrepreneurshipstartups— Stanford lecture, 2015
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Credit cards are designed to be confusing. We built Affirm to be the opposite.

fintechtransparency— CNBC Interview, 2021
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If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

productstartups— Interview with TechCrunch, 2014
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Fraud detection at PayPal was an arms race. The fraudsters were incredibly creative. We had to be more creative.

fraudinnovation— Founders at Work (book by Jessica Livingston), 2007
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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.

immigrationresilience— Interview, 2019