Jerry Yang Quotes

People are used to cash, and getting them out of that is going to be a long and tough exercise.

Ten Internets ago, when PayPal was started, it was all these tools that no one had built yet to bring commerce to the Internet. My first startup used PayPal.

Technology has come a long way since PayPal.

What needs to be done is that the digital initiatives that we had started, that those get the same kind of focus, and that we now disincentivize the use of cash. If you're going to slide back into the ways that we had before this demonetization impact, then you really won't get the benefits.

Even if it does not become cashless economy, it will become a less cash economy, and I think that itself is going to be a good and big achievement, and I think we are, as a country, gone through many of large changes, and ICICI has been a leader in many of them.

Online payment will continue to play an ever-growing and significant role in the development of e-commerce as well as the stimulation of consumer demand.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

The Russian customers don't feel very comfortable with online transactions.

The world needs another vehicle to get people to pay in cash.

Online transactions, once relegated to leaps of faith, have evolved into our status quo. We no longer ask ourselves whether or not it's wise to buy online. Instead, we ask whether or not it's wise to deal with a particular person, service provider, or business.

A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay.

Everywhere we look, technology has changed our daily lives - from the way we pay our bills, to the way we buy plane tickets or keep in touch with friends and family.

Trade on the Internet is becoming very widespread. The problem is our laws have not caught up with electronic commerce.

I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.

Curbside is primed to fundamentally change the way people shop - by creating a seamless way for consumers to access products from local merchants - by successfully developing complex location and inventory technology.

Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had.

Technologies like PayPal foster competition because they enable people to shift their funds from one jurisdiction to another, and I think that ultimately will lead to a world in which there's less government power and therefore more individual control.

We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.

I was fascinated by the fact that in Osaka, we saw people using their cell phones to pay for small goods.

Digital is the only way to get rid of corruption and unaccounted cash.

What interests us in Stripe is the idea that there could much more commerce happening on the Internet.

ATM is still a cash channel; we want to migrate it to the digital channel.