How PayPal is Disrupting Itself

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How PayPal is Disrupting Itself

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Bankole Oluwafemi

15th Aug, 2013

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Throw out the cubicles. Out with the meetings and redtape. Become a startup…again That seems to be what PayPal is doing. A must read. Especially for people who work at our favourite payments company, perhaps they might consider disrupting themselves too.

If it’s not broke, break it: How David Marcus is dismantling PayPal to save itThese days, if you go up and down the elevator at PayPal’s headquarters, get out on each floor and look around. You’ll see the perfect metaphor for PayPal’s past, present, and future. On the third floor, PayPal President David Marcus shows me a sea of high-walled beige and grey hexagonal cubicles.

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