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  ore (@lanalovesbooks0) reported 43 seconds ago

  after my problems with paypal last year, i no longer submit to magazines like chestnut who will only pay you if you have a paypal account

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  Zely (@0xZely) reported 3 minutes ago

  Elon Musk had already made $200 million and was burning through it to keep three companies alive. He explained exactly how in a 45-minute closed-door talk at Stanford in 2003. The recording is on YouTube. Almost no founder has watched it in a decade. Today Musk is worth roughly $400 billion. That is a 2,000x personal net worth increase in twenty-two years. The talk in this video is Musk explaining, from age 32, exactly how he intended to survive the next few years long enough to make it happen. At the time he had three companies. Zip2 had already been sold to Compaq for $307 million. PayPal had just been sold to eBay for $1.5 billion. SpaceX was one year old and burning cash. He was worth roughly $200 million and had just committed the majority of it to keeping SpaceX alive. The 2003 Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner recording is 45 minutes. Musk covers his framework in four parts. Find direction. Do not build what you think other people want. Build what you would use yourself. Everything else is a market research problem, and market research is almost never how new markets are found. Control costs. Do the physics. Every SpaceX component was priced against the raw material cost of its inputs. If the ratio was more than three, he built it in-house instead of buying it. Stay alive. In a war of attrition the last money left in the account wins. When PayPal was near zero he stopped taking a salary, refused strategic investors who wanted control, and cut every discretionary line item to zero. Break down problems with first principles. Do not reason by analogy. Do not defer to what an industry currently believes. Rebuild the problem from the physical constraints and see what falls out. "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." That is Musk in a 2013 interview repeating a line he first used in the Stanford talk ten years earlier. It has been quoted in almost every founder biography since. Every top-selling startup book of the last two decades borrows from this framework. The recording is free. The books are not. Almost every founder on X quotes Musk while running their company on the opposite of what he taught in this room. The talk is free. The four rules fit on a napkin. The willingness to actually do the physics on a business you are running instead of another pitch deck is a much rarer commodity than the framework itself.

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  Monsieur Panda (@2MonsieurPanda) reported 4 minutes ago

  So last month I had 5 people interested in commissioning me. One had PayPal issue, one I made the doodle, one wanted to work with me... All of them ghosted me, nobody paid, or told me they weren't interested. So I'm wondering if I should just stop making commissions.

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  sir *** ference (@misofujo) reported 9 minutes ago

  im eu server can send over paypal orrrr bank transfer or revolut or wtv i Dont mind

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  Wez G (@WezG) reported 9 minutes ago

  I've just had major problems with @paypal with them thieving 400 quid and terminating my account.

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  basinglasing (@basinglasing) reported 12 minutes ago

  Take care feon @PayPal I have this problem they want infos they got already and I share click buttons and fall alltime in coma and can’t solve it cause I lost 2.8m in 2 month I have no nerves to solve and have just acc the millionaire who also have this csnt answer but proofed

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  Josh (@BuildTestScale) reported 12 minutes ago

  The problem? The payments space is already crowded. Venmo. Cash App. Apple Cash. Zelle. PayPal. Everyone already has something that works. So X Money has to be better than just "send money." ⌯⌲

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  Daniel (@danielz1983) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Adamthechampion @JustEatUK @JustEatUK customer service is terrible. They've screwed me multiple times/ways and they'll refuse a refund even if u have video evidence. Moral of the story, if u have to use their awful service, always pay with PayPal they're significantly better when a refund is necessary.

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  Renee Libby (@ReneeLibby95084) reported 17 minutes ago

  @AndreaTaz4ever2 Unfortunately, I’m having some trouble with the PayPal. I put in a test amount tried to send it to you and was told that my device wasn’t recognized. With PayPal my device is always recognized. Unfortunately I’m not going to change my password or put in any other bank or credit card information. Not saying you did it or up to anything but having trouble.

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  Asha Gill (@AgentDimps) reported 19 minutes ago

  @jet2tweets Is PayPal down on your app ?

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@ayutrades) reported 19 minutes ago

  🍓 - open for transfer • not verify balance transfer to verify (gcash, maya, shopee pay, lazada wallet, grab pay, pricelocq) • gcash & maya with issue transfer balance (authentication failed, facescan, can't send, can't open) permanent limit paypal withdrawal (180 days)

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  MarcoNc (@mremaarco) reported 19 minutes ago

  from me, now my paypal is not working, like hello?

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  Thomas 🏳️‍⚧️ 18% phone (@ChikoritaDemise) reported 22 minutes ago

  Lovely thing to wake up to, ko-fi says there's an issue with stripe even though I gave them the info they wanted so the only way someone can dono to my ko-fi is via PayPal. I would put it up on throne but it'd take awhile to payout to me and I need the amount by Tuesday. Advice?

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  Rudolfs (@ecomrudolfs) reported 26 minutes ago

  Had about 50+ people reach out to me a couple of days ago on insta about private processing So let me break down some common questions Nr1: legal structure If you sell in the US, have a US llc setup This will increase your auth rates and opens a lot of new doors (Same goes for other markets - have a local setup) Nr2: what is “private processing” It is not some payfac Its having processing directly from an acquiring bank You go to an ISO and they talk to the bank and do the whole underwriting process In the end you have your own MIDs (merchant IDs) And you are the only store processing on it Way less wrongful shutdowns than on payfacs cause your data is not mixed with others Nr3: the checkout Its very simple… All you need is a CRM It will high jack the shopify checkout process You build a custom checkout or use pre made templates and connect your MIDs to the CRM Usually will need the MIDs to either be able to issue a VAR sheet or have the NMI gateway But its very common so no worries on that Nr4: the benefits I dont even know where to start lol - full control over your checkout (split test and run what ever you want) - unrestricted upsell flows - if you do mrr then you can own your subscription tokens - apple/google pay wallets + paypal - way less wrongful shutdowns - next day payouts - almost a 0% chance at losing access to all processing - smart rebill logic - built in tracking (sent directly to your ad platform) - no more headaches from SP bs I could go on but you get the point If you are still on SP in the big 2026 its time to rethink your backend Q4 is coming up and volume spikes cause a ton of volatility with SP shutdowns (Not the case on MIDs as you have a HUMAN to talk to) Don’t end up not being able to process payments during November Set this up even as a backup if you don’t want to fully switch Either way if you have any questions or want to get in touch with the right people… Send me a dm

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  Jayvon Johnson (@JayvonJ70163056) reported 31 minutes ago

  Mo Money Money is a problem with PayPal