PayPal and the Future of Payments with Sri Shivananda, SVP, CTO of PayPal

Sri Shivananda is PayPal’s SVP and CTO, which is a long way away from his original dream of being a pilot in the Indian Air Force. But being the SVP and CTO of a payment company that in 2018 did $578B in total payment volume and 9.9B transactions in 200 different markets in about a hundred different currencies is still a pretty big deal. On this episode of IT Visionaries, Sri takes us through his journey and explains all the ways that PayPal has made an impact on the way people make payments in the digital age. 

Key Takeaways:

• Payments are becoming more ambient
• Cryptocurrencies are more of an asset than a currency
• PayPal innovates in three main ways

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