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📌 Module 1: The Founding Vision — Two Roads to One Idea

Submodule 1.1 — Max Levchin: The Engineer's Obsession

Submodule 1.2 — Peter Thiel: The Contrarian Visionary

Submodule 1.3 — Elon Musk and X.com: The Financial Superstore Dream

Submodule 1.4 — Two Companies, One Block Apart

📌 Module 2: The Product — From PalmPilots to Email Money

Submodule 2.1 — The Beaming at Bucks: PR Before Product

Submodule 2.2 — The PalmPilot Problem: When the Market Isn't There

Submodule 2.3 — The Accidental Pivot: Email as a Backup That Became the Product

Submodule 2.4 — Naming the Product: The Science Behind "PayPal"

📌 Module 3: Building the Team — Talent, Culture, and the Aura Test

Submodule 3.1 — The "A Hires A" Philosophy

Submodule 3.2 — The Aura Test: Hiring for Intensity, Not Just Credentials

Submodule 3.3 — The No-Ring Rule and Its Trade-offs

Submodule 3.4 — David Sacks: The Value of Radical Candor

Submodule 3.5 — Building Through Networks and Outliers

📌 Module 4: Finding Product-Market Fit — The eBay Discovery

Submodule 4.1 — The eBay Moment: Organic Adoption

Submodule 4.2 — Viral Growth and the Referral Engine

Submodule 4.3 — The eBay Dependency Risk

Submodule 4.4 — Billpoint: When the Platform Becomes the Competitor

📌 Module 5: The Merger — When Rivals Become Partners

Submodule 5.1 — The Competitive War: Mutually Assured Destruction

Submodule 5.2 — Negotiating the Merger: Egos, Terms, and Trust

Submodule 5.3 — The CEO Battle: Musk vs. Thiel

Submodule 5.4 — Culture Integration: Two Teams, One Company

📌 Module 6: The Siege — Fraud, Regulation, and Survival

Submodule 6.1 — The Fraud War: Tens of Millions Lost

Submodule 6.2 — The Regulatory Gauntlet: Attorneys General and Banking Laws

Submodule 6.3 — The Louisiana Lawsuit and State-by-State Regulation

Submodule 6.4 — Surviving the Dot-Com Crash

📌 Module 7: Going Public — The IPO and What It Proves

Submodule 7.1 — The Road to IPO: Timing as Strategy

Submodule 7.2 — September 11 and the First Post-9/11 IPO

Submodule 7.3 — The First Profitable Quarter: Proving the Model

Submodule 7.4 — The IPO as Beginning, Not End

📌 Module 8: The Acquisition and the Legacy — Selling, Dispersing, and What Came After

Submodule 8.1 — The eBay Deal: Necessity or Surrender?

Submodule 8.2 — The Debate: Mission vs. Money

Submodule 8.3 — Culture Clash at eBay: The Mongoose Massacre

Submodule 8.4 — The PayPal Mafia: What Great Teams Produce

Submodule 8.5 — The Defining Lessons: Frameworks for Builders

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