8: Helping People Connect Through Innovation

Mike Todasco of PayPal

In this episode, Jon and Mike discuss:

• Mike's back story
• The daily life of a director of innovation
• Evolving PayPal employees to become their own CEO
• What comes after innovation

Key Takeaways and Actionable Success Principles:

• Mike focuses on making everyone at PayPal the best that they can be
• Much more of Ecommerce is moving to mobile
• You can't underestimate the power that machine learning and AI technologies are going to have
• We don't know what other types of technology will be produced but just take the dots that you have today and connect them

"It's really critical to have a common purpose and everyone driving towards that." - Mike Todasco

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Email: jon@jondwoskin.com

Connect with Mike Todasco:

Twitter: @todasco

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/todasco/

Show Notes by Show Producer: Anna Nygren

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