Full Name David A. Marcus Years active 1996–present | Name David Marcus Role Businessman | |
Residence San Francisco, California, U.S. Similar People Scott Thompson, Daniel Schulman, John Donahoe, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin Profiles | ||
David Marcus (born April 12, 1973) is a French, Swiss, and American entrepreneur and executive. He is the former president of PayPal and is the Vice President of Messaging Products at Facebook, leading Messenger.
Career
Marcus started his career at 23 when he founded his first venture, GTN Telecom, and served as the Chairman and CEO until GTN was acquired by World Access in 2000. Soon after, he founded Echovox, a mobile media monetization company, which paved the way for Zong mobile payments company in 2008.
Zong was acquired by eBay's PayPal in 2011 for $240 million, and Marcus joined PayPal as Vice President and General Manager of Mobile division of PayPal. Under his leadership, PayPal launched its offline mobile card reader solution, PayPal Here. In April 2012 he was picked to take over the leadership of the company as the President, when then President Scott Thompson left PayPal to join Yahoo.
In 2014, Marcus left PayPal to lead Facebook's mobile messaging initiatives.
