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The difference with Elon and McAfee is that Elon (and the paypal mafia) have white collar crime in their DNA. Paypal growth held a 1:1 correlation with online prescription drug scam (or online prescription crime rings, depending who you ask).

McAfee is the lowest amateur compared to those guys.

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> Paypal growth held a 1:1 correlation with online prescription drug scam (or online prescription crime rings, depending who you ask).

And they were both caused by an increase in.... people using the internet.

I agree with your point. But Paypal was notorious for poor controls early on. I have to wonder how much VC money that officially went to Paypal actually ended up being seed money for online criminals of many stripes.

> Paypal growth held a 1:1 correlation with online prescription drug scam (or online prescription crime rings, depending who you ask).

This correlation is about as compelling as these ones: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

except paypal being the payment choice and making lots of early concessions to work with those companies in their early days is a well documented fact.

They would not have gotten off the ground in the early days without it.

oh, and pirates and global warming the canonical reference for your point around here :)

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