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Coping with Fraud

Max Levchin and Peter Thiel, Paypal

The founders soon realized that a major part of the high burn rate was due to fraud. They admit to being very naïve about fraud when they started the company. They had to either find a way to beat fraud or the fraudsters would beat them. They were able to successfully stay ahead of the fraudsters and reduce the fraud rate dramatically.