We had a mission at PayPal – which was to create a new financial system, a new world currency, and we failed. We were a financial success, but we didn’t succeed at the purpose of our company.
There were always moments where I’d say, ‘What else can I do with my life?’ But when I was 30 years old and discovered I could write – I wrote ‘Black Cloud’ in six weeks – it opened up a whole new world for me.
