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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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Affordable, Made, Accessible, Human Progress

We believe digital payments are making financial services more universally affordable, accessible and, therefore, have the opportunity to drive financial inclusion and financial health for billions worldwide.

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Digital, Affordable, Making, Worldwide

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

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Very, Markets, Expand, Extend

Most governments want their citizens to be part of the financial system, to be productive citizens as a result of having access to be able to manage and move money in a seamless way. But the traditional financial services infrastructure is not designed to handle that because, predominantly, it's an expensive infrastructure.

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Financial, Access, Part, Seamless

I grew up in a progressive household with a family that believed in equality for all, and that leaves its mark on you. In the past, I planned to go into politics and never considered Wall Street as an option.

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Politics, Past, In The Past, Progressive

In many ways, leadership is about defining reality and inspiring hope, but if you have these great people around you and they know that what they do is going to be recognized, it can be incredibly powerful.

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Going, Recognized, About, Defining

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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Challenges, Prepared, About, Defining

Everyone has all the power of a bank branch in the palm of their hand. And so in that world of software at scale, theoretically the incremental unit cost of something at scale approaches zero.

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Software, Cost, Everyone, Theoretically

My team and I tried cashing checks at check-cashing places and paying bills by money order. It's incredibly inconvenient and time-consuming - it's practically a part-time job just to manage and move your money.

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Team, Move, Practically, Part-Time

I think that sometimes people talk about disruption, and I've seen tons of startups come in as disruptors and then disappear. And I think what we need to do as an industry is think about a world that is dominated by mobile and software and not extrapolate from what was. And I think a lot of big companies tend to want to do that.

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Software, Big, I Think, Startups

When I first entered the corporate world, doing good and making money were seen as separate and contradictory threads. Challenging that notion set my career - and life - on a new course.

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Career, Doing, Separate, Corporate World

I've come to recognize that social purpose must be embedded into the core DNA of a company. The questions 'Why do we exist as a company?' and 'How do we make a difference?' need to have the same answer.

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Purpose, Need, Social, Embedded

Our overriding mantra is to be customer champion.

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Champion, Mantra, Our, Overriding

Before I became the president of AT&T's consumer division, I was running strategy and our internet services, so I was the president of one of the first internet service providers, ISPs, AT&T Worldnet, and running our internet protocol product development as well. So I knew a lot about what was going on with the internet.

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Before, About, Became, Protocol

On average, an underserved consumer spends 10% of their disposable income on unnecessary fees and interest rates.

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Average, Income, Fees, Consumer

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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Right, About, Your, Consumer

Digital payments have already made it easier to move and manage money. While there's more work to do, the potential is real and understood.

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Digital, Made, Move, Manage

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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Some, One Of The Things, Manage

Personal and mobile computing, long-distance communications, energy storage, and air travel are just a few of the things that have been democratized by technology, creating new possibilities for billions of people.

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New, Possibilities, Been, Long-Distance

Too many people go into existing organizations and define success as recreating what is there. To be successful as a startup organization within a large, established culture, you really need to think about how you leverage the assets that are there.

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How, Leverage, About, Too Many People

We are excited to see how PayPal's global payment platform can help small businesses in Cuba thrive and grow by making it easier to connect to international markets.

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Small, Small Businesses, Businesses

When I talk about the ability for fintech to promote kind of economic growth and productive citizens coming in, using different data and being able to lend to small businesses, see those small businesses start to grow - of course, that means more money for their families, you know, the small-business owner families. They start to hire people.

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Small, Data, Hire, Businesses

The cost of money rises dramatically if you can't afford to keep it in a bank.

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Bank, Cost, Afford, Dramatically

When you focus solely on valuation and market share, you win some and you lose some. When you focus on the needs of your customers and help them achieve their dreams, you win every time.

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Achieve, Some, Needs, Every Time

Physical money, whether it's checks or cash or credit card, are digitizing in front of us.

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Money, Credit Card, Checks, Card

Many of the things that we take for granted around the table, like cashing a check or just paying a bill or sending money to somebody you love, is very time consuming.

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Love, Very, Time Consuming, Table

I am a huge mixed martial arts practitioner.

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I Am, Martial, Huge, Martial Arts

Monetizing by creating more value for a Venmo user makes a ton of sense to me. But other forms of monetization that are more intrusive, like in advertising or something like that, the jury is really still out for me.

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Other, Still, Intrusive, Forms

No one can say that democratizing financial services is bad. It is good for communities, countries, the global economy, and educational progress.

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Financial, Bad, Educational, Communities

I believe that companies that have the opportunity to improve the lives of their customers and communities have the responsibility to do so.

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Lives, I Believe That, Communities

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