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”PayPal is no ordinary company, and this is no ordinary story.”PayPal is no ordinary company, and this is no ordinary story.On the one hand, this is one of the most inspiring tales you’ll ever hear - how a small group of people in their 20’s with no real finance experience went up against big banking and revolutionized the way we send money.But there’s also a very dark story here… how a company that promised so much has ended up ripping off its own users and being involved in countless scandals. There are very few companies with as many horror stories and unhappy customers as PayPal.This is also a story about how PayPal faced fraudsters, gave away free money, nearly went bankrupt, and on multiple occasions hatched a secret plot to overthrow their own CEO.And yet despite all this controversy surrounding the company, hundreds of millions of people use PayPal every day to send money around the world.And the team behind PayPal have come to be known as the PayPal mafia, a network of powerful billionaires who are b