Entrepreneurs generally describe themselves as either unlucky or brilliant, depending on whether or not they were successful. Since the company can never be founded again, Peter Thiel says it is hard to know whether they were in fact brilliant or merely lucky with Paypal. He does say that they were at the right place at the right time, but undoubtedly did many right things along the process as well.

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   Lecture 1: Lucky or Brilliant?
   
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   Lecture 2: Paypal Cofounders Met in Terman at a Seminar
   
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   Lecture 3: How We Attracted Our First People
   
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   Lecture 4: Selling Employees, Selling Investors, and Selling Customers
   
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   Lecture 5: Selling Investors: Beaming at Bucks
   
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   Lecture 6: Selling Customers -- Getting the Product Out
   
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   Lecture 7: Exponential Growth
   
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   Lecture 8: Coping with Fraud
   
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   Lecture 9: The Initial Public Offering (IPO)
   
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    Lecture 10: Viral Marketing
    
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    Lecture 11: Changing the Business Model
    
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    Lecture 12: Beating Competitors - and the Conventional Wisdom
    
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    Lecture 13: Negotiating with eBay
    
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    Lecture 14: Advice to eBay (the acquirer)
    
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    Lecture 15: When and Why to Merge With a Competitor to Dominate a Market
    
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    Lecture 16: Paypal is Not a Bank
    
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    Lecture 17: Looking Ahead to Their Next Venture