Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by rizzaxc 1306 days ago
and I'm sure you know he was forced out as CEO by the board even though he had the most equity, mostly because he was pushing terrible branding (X instead of PayPal), product and engineering decisions (Windows instead of Linux,...) and getting into arguments with the folks who'd made PayPal working.

Really makes you think 'ride or die' management style doesn't work with boring products like money wiring or social meds

1 comments

Sure, I'm not a FinTech COO/CEO expert, so it is entirely possible that the optimal management style for PayPal is Dan Schulman's style.