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  "markdown": "Co-founder, PayPal.\n\nYu Pan is an engineer and one of the six people who started PayPal. He was later the first employee at YouTube, where he worked as an early software engineer, and he has also worked at Google and co-founded Kiwi Crate.\n\n## What Yu builds\n\n- [PayPal MCP server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paypal-mcp-server.md), graded C, 56.3/100, in Payment \u0026 monetisation platforms. PayPal's official MCP server lets a merchant's AI client work with invoices, orders, refunds, disputes, subscriptions, catalogue products and transaction reports. It runs locally through `npx @paypal/mcp` or as a hosted server at mcp.paypal.com with a PayPal login. Co-founder, PayPal, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Christopher Payne](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/christopher-payne/), Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)\n- [Ed Ho](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ed-ho/), Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)\n- [Elon Musk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/elon-musk-2/), Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)\n- [Harris Fricker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/harris-fricker/), Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)\n- [Ken Howery](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ken-howery/), Co-founder, PayPal\n- [Luke Nosek](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/luke-nosek/), Co-founder, PayPal\n- [Max Levchin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/max-levchin/), Co-founder, PayPal\n- [Peter Thiel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/peter-thiel/), Co-founder, PayPal\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Yu Pan?\n\nYu Pan is an engineer and one of the six people who started PayPal. He was later the first employee at YouTube, where he worked as an early software engineer, and he has also worked at Google and co-founded Kiwi Crate.\n\n### What does PayPal make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists PayPal MCP server from PayPal. PayPal's official MCP server lets a merchant's AI client work with invoices, orders, refunds, disputes, subscriptions, catalogue products and transaction reports. It runs locally through npx @paypal/mcp or as a hosted server at mcp.paypal.com with a PayPal login.\n\n### How are Yu's tools graded?\n\nPayPal MCP server is graded C, 56.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://developer.paypal.com/ai-tools/mcp-server\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paypal/paypal-mcp-server/main/README.md\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Levchin\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Nosek\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Howery\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Pan\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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