PayPal
PulseAugur coverage of PayPal — every cluster mentioning PayPal across labs, papers, and developer communities, ranked by signal.
- founded by Elon Musk 100%
- founded by Max Levchin 100%
- founded by Ken Howery 100%
- founded by Luke Nosek 100%
- founded by Peter Thiel 100%
- employed by Enrique Lores 95%
- acquired Mastercard 90%
- acquired by Advent International 90%
- employs Enrique Lores 90%
- employed by David Sacks 90%
- acquired Advent International 90%
- founded Fortune 90%
- 2026-09-01 funding Stripe and Advent withdrew their acquisition offer for PayPal. source
- 2026-08-28 funding Stripe-led group reportedly abandons acquisition of PayPal. source
- 2026-07-15 funding Stripe and Advent International have made a $53 billion offer to acquire PayPal. source
- 2026-07-15 funding Stripe and Advent International jointly proposed to acquire PayPal for over $53 billion. source
- 2026-06-18 hiring PayPal appointed Zhang Hong as CEO for its China operations. source
- 2026-05-14 partnership PayPal and Anthropic have partnered to offer AI workflows to small businesses.
- 2026-05-12 regulatory The DOJ extracted a $30 million settlement from PayPal regarding its minority-owned business program. source
- 2026-05-12 regulatory PayPal reached a $30 million settlement with the Department of Justice over its minority business program. source
- 2026-05-12 regulatory The DOJ reached a $30 million settlement with PayPal regarding its business program. source
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