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Founded in 1998 and an eBay subsidiary from October 2002 until its July 2015 IPO, PayPal had a stellar first quarter of 2016: Revenue rose 23 percent from the year-earlier period, to $2.54 billion, while payment transactions jumped 26 percent, to 1.41 billion, and active customer accounts 11 percent, to 184 million. But another metric that excites president and CEO Dan Schulman these days is transactions per account per year — 28 as of the first quarter, three more than in 2015. “What we really aspire to is to go from a PayPal customer using PayPal twice a month to using us twice a week,” says Schulman, 58, who was American Express Co.’s president of enterprise growth before joining San Jose, California–based PayPal in 2014. He believes the key to greater customer engagement is mobility as more mobile-centric merchants come onto the platform. During 2015, 1.4 billion, or 28 percent, of PayPal’s 4.9 billion total payments were initiated on mobile devices. The CEO sees growth potential in reaching the 2 billion people who don’t have bank accounts. Schulman says PayPal “has a unique opportunity to make a massive difference in people’s lives by democratizing payments and helping millions of people around the world move and manage their money more securely, reliably and affordably” as the lines separating traditional banking, mobile banking and commerce continue to blur. This emerging “digital commerce and money” sector could be worth $100 trillion, says Schulman, who formerly served as founding CEO of Virgin Mobile USA, president and CEO of Priceline Group and president of AT&T’s consumer markets division. To help customers navigate the changing payments landscape, PayPal will transition from being a button on a website to “a platform that enables innovative and seamless buying experiences wherever user communities are actively engaged,” Schulman says. The company has been on the acquisition trail — last year it bought mobile commerce start-up Modest for an undisclosed sum and money transfer provider Xoom Corp. for $890 million — and this April it led a $30 million funding round for investment app developer Acorns.

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The 2016 Tech 50

1. Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp. 2. Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange Open Architecture and Next-Gen Technology Help Support Model Delivery Sponsored by BlackRock April 24, 2025 3. Lance Uggla Markit 4. Phupinder Gill CME Group 5. Shawn Edwards and Vlad Kliatchko Bloomberg 6. R. Martin Chavez Goldman Sachs Group

7. Robert Goldstein BlackRock 8. Adena Friedman Nasdaq 9. Deborah Hopkins Citi Ventures 10. Daniel Coleman KCG Holdings 11. Stephen Neff Fidelity Investments 12. David Craig Thomson Reuters

13. Michael Spencer ICAP 14. Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. 15. Charles Li Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing 16. Chris Concannon BATS Global Markets 17. Blythe Masters Digital Asset Holdings 18. David Rutter R3CEV

19. Neil Katz D.E. Shaw & Co. 20. Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets 21. Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings 22. Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings 23. Robert Alexander Capital One Financial Corp. 24. Brad Katsuyama IEX Group

25. Antoine Shagoury State Street Corp. 26. David Gledhill DBS Bank 27. Lou Eccleston TMX Group 28. Andreas Preuss Deutsche BÖrse 29. Dan Schulman PayPal Holdings 30. Scott Dillon Wells Fargo & Co.

31. Mike Chinn S&P Global Market Intelligence 32. Craig Donohue Options Clearing Corp. 33. Gary Norcross Fidelity National Information Services 34. Steven O'Hanlon Numerix 35. Sebastián Ceria Axioma 36. Michael Cooper BT Radianz

37. Tyler Kim MaplesFS 38. Neal Pawar AQR Capital Management 39. David Harding Winton Capital Management 40. Chris Corrado London Stock Exchange Group 41. Brian Conlon First Derivatives 42. Jim Minnick eVestment

43. Stephane Dubois Xignite 44. Mazy Dar OpenFin 45. Yasuki Okai NRI Holdings America 46. Kim Fournais Saxo Bank 47. Jock Percy Perseus 48. Robert Schifellite Broadridge Financial Solutions

49. Brian Sentance Xenomorph Software 50. Pieter van der Does Adyen