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"Basically, we were in a race to develop new anti-fraud techniques and they were in a race to develop new ways to steal money. The by-product of it was all our competitors got wiped out because as the Russian mobsters got better and better, they got better and better at destroying all of our competitors." - Max Levchin on the history of Paypal.

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

parent ig1 12 years ago

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