2. Confidential and Proprietary
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF INTERNSHIP
• Operation Portable Storefront
• New initiative to embrace developers for PayPal Platform
• Project anticipated to generate $6 million TPV year 1, $25 million
TPV year 3
• Successfully presented executive proposal to Osama, Naveed, &
Damon & gained approval
• Successfully hosted a company brown bag
• Successfully planned & launched project
• Successfully recruited & communicated with developers
• Successfully launched “Preview” of 4 applications
• Labs Team External Portal
• Oversaw design of new PayPal Labs Team site in partnership with
TopCoder
• Successfully managed 2 Contests- Submission & Assembly
• New website expected to be completed by August 23, 2010
• New website is anticipated to compete with Google’s & Yahoo’s
labs’ site
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3. Confidential and Proprietary
BUILD UP TO THE LAUNCH OF OPERATION
PORTABLE STOREFRONT
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Strategized and
created
website/project
content for
Operation
Portable
Storefront
Presentations &
meetings with
Marketing, Labs
Team & DevNet
team for
feedback &
brainstorming
2 Presentations
to Naveed
Anwar, Senior
Director of
PayPal Platform
Presentation to
Osama Bedier,
VP of Mobile,
Platform & New
Ventures (& 2
Senior
Directors)
“Brown Bag”
Lunch
Presentation to
internally
communicate
launch of project
to company
Launch of
Operation
Portable
Storefront on
X.com
13. Confidential and Proprietary
SUCCESS OF OPS WEBPAGE
• 2,200 page views for OPS
• 1,365 unique weekly visitors
• 4.5% of visitors register on x.com (99 registrants)
• 1,389 blog views (not unique)
• Blog drove 7.6% of OPS viewers to page (167)
• Bit.ly drove 281 click-throughs
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SUCCESS OF BLOG
14. Confidential and Proprietary
X.COM MEASUREABLE ACHIEVEMENTS
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As of August 12, 2010
As of August 11, 2010
Most amount of time on pages
(>100 visits):
•HTML Variables for Website
Payments Standard: 6.05
minutes – 112 visits
•New Bling Blog: 4.95
minutes – 136 visits
•Operation Portable
Storefront: 4.43 minutes –312
visits
Top 3 “Stickiest Pages”
19. Confidential and Proprietary
SOCIAL MEDIA SUCCESS
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Bit.ly/opstorefront: Blog
Bit.ly/opsPreview: Preview
•Links were clicked 329
times
•57 tweets using the 2 links
•33 were retweets