Dan Schulman Quotes

Dan Schulman

Profession : Businessman

Birth : January 19, 1958

As CEO, I believe my most important job is to both define reality and inspire hope for the PayPal team. Defining reality includes being realistic about all the things that could go wrong so that we are prepared to navigate those challenges.

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If we can provide a benefit and make money, it's a chance for us to expand the population of customers we serve, expand the products we put in the marketplace, and reinvent ourselves going forward.

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We all have people who are literally one life shock away from going into a crisis. For many of us, we have a buffer in one way or another. We have a savings account, or we have credit that we can go to. The underserved don't have that luxury.

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Managing and moving your money should be a right, not a privilege. This isn't about banking the unbanked. It's about re-imagining what consumer retail banking can be.

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There is absolutely no room for discrimination against anyone in our country or anywhere in world.

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My mom pushed me in a baby carriage at Martin Luther King rallies. My grandfather was a union organizer. And to me, there is no room - no room - for discrimination of any kind. To me, it's just an anathema.

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Online commerce is being replaced by mobile.

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I consider myself a good communicator and a good salesman.

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PayPal is a strong business: it has a strong balance sheet and free cash flows, and it will help us take a look at where we want to independently invest.

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As we think about the future, one of the things we will do is to make sure PayPal becomes the central part of consumers' lives, how we enable consumers to manage and move their money more efficiently, easily, and less expensively than some traditional ways.

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India is among the leaders in thinking about how technology can solve some of the problems about financial inclusion. But if you think that financial inclusion as a problem has a solution rooted in technology, it's obviously not the only thing.

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We have a very close relationship with Google. We extend our offerings to all the markets that we expand into.

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PayPal benefited tremendously from having a close partnership with the eBay marketplace. It was a natural fit at the time.

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Our strategy is to provide even more value to users and tie the Venmo community into the PayPal merchant marketplace so that they can use Venmo to buy things.

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We have the flexibility to work with any potential merchant partner across the globe.

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I think we operate in a very dynamic marketplace, and as such, we need to constantly innovate.

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In the not-too-distant future, commerce is just going to be commerce. It won't be online commerce or offline commerce. It's just going to be commerce. And that will happen because of the phone.

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The big problem retailers are facing is the world is moving to mobile.

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Payments is a hard business. It's a messy business, with not necessarily the largest of margins.

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One way to understand human progress is to look at how technology has made products and services - once reserved for the elite - progressively more accessible and affordable.

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