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MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT AND CEO Dear Colleagues, Customers, Partners and Stockholders: Five years ago, we set out to create a new PayPal. What was once a checkout button has been transformed into a financial services and commerce platform driven by a mission to help merchants and consumers join and thrive in the global economy. We have a bold vision for the future of commerce with the capabilities and resources to execute on our ambitious goals. As a company and as a community, the past year was a period of meaningful progress in advancing our mission and becoming a truly great company. I’m pleased to share with you some of PayPal’s 2019 accomplishments. Investing in Our Employees PayPal President and CEO Dan Schulman visited employees in Omaha, Nebraska to discuss the company’s recently implemented programs to support the financial health of its employees. Our employees are one of our company’s greatest competitive advantages. It was the highlight of my year to announce that PayPal would launch a comprehensive program to help our employees feel more financially secure. We raised wages where appropriate, lowered the cost of healthcare for some employees by an average of 58%, enhanced our benefits and gave every employee an ownership stake in PayPal by granting equity awards – regardless of level, location or tenure. We also are providing employees with new tools and resources to help guide their long-term financial planning and decisions. These steps were important to ensure that everyone at PayPal feels the same sense of accountability, responsibility and passion for serving our customers. Investing in our employees will help us better serve our customers and ultimately drive long-term value. It’s been amazing to see the worldwide employee reception to this initiative. In 2020 and beyond, we’ll continue building on these initiatives and challenging other members of the business community to consider the obligations we all have to our employees. Driving Record Results with Strong Growth Across our business we delivered another strong year of financial performance. For the year, we delivered $17.8 billion in revenue, growing 19% on an FX-neutral basis(1), adjusted for our 2018 credit receivables sale to Synchrony(2). Our strong revenue growth, combined with disciplined expense management, enabled 28% year-over-year growth in our non-GAAP earnings per share to $3.10(3). We ended the year with a record 305 million active accounts on our platform, including 24 million merchant accounts. Engagement grew by 10% to an average of 40.6 transactions per active account. Redefining Our Market Opportunity In 2019, we significantly expanded our total addressable market with the acquisition of Guofubao Information Technology Co., Ltd. (GoPay) and the announcement of our acquisition of Honey Science Corporation, and our commercial partnerships with Uber and MercadoLibre. The addition of Honey to our platform enables a significant step forward in our commitment to provide powerful services and tools for merchants and consumers, move beyond our core checkout proposition and significantly enhance the shopping experience for our customers. With the acquisition of GoPay, PayPal became the first foreign payment platform licensed to provide online payment services in China. This important step allows us to be a stronger partner to Chinese financial institutions and technology platforms. Our initial focus is on providing cross-border payment solutions to China’s merchants and consumers, linking China’s commerce ecosystem to PayPal’s global two-sided network. We both solidified and extended our global partnership with Uber, and also announced that we intend to explore future commercial payment collaborations including the development of Uber’s digital wallet. We also signed a commercial agreement with MercadoLibre following our strategic investment earlier in the year, significantly expanding our market opportunity in Latin America. Responsibly and Prudently Deploying Capital Resources Throughout 2019, we were able to strategically deploy our capital to ensure that we remain well positioned – financially and technologically – to deliver value to all of our stakeholders. Our strong performance has enabled us to utilize the debt markets to raise capital and ensure that our capital structure takes full advantage of low rates and the strong support for our business. Our PayPal Ventures unit continues to thrive by identifying, evaluating and making disciplined strategic investments in early to mid-stage companies to drive growth and long-term innovation. PayPal President and CEO Dan Schulman delivered remarks during the 2019 United Nations General Assembly on progress towards financial inclusion and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Leveraging Our Platform to Maximize Global Good PayPal has always strived to demonstrate that our values are not just words on a page, but the driving force of our company. When 2019 began, the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history caused thousands of furloughed employees to struggle to pay for groceries, rent, gas, medications and other everyday necessities. We committed $25 million in interest-free cash advances to furloughed U.S. government employees – stepping in and taking action when the government was at a standstill. In our second annual Global Impact Report, we set the goal of using 100% renewable energy in our data centers by 2023 and joined other companies in taking measurable action. I’m continually inspired by the generosity of the expanding PayPal community, which continues to reach new heights. PayPal processed a record $10 billion in donations to charities around the world in 2019, and more than $1 billion in the month of December alone. We remain committed to harnessing the power of our technology and scale to provide new ways for people to give to the causes they care about – and to help charitable organizations raise mission-critical funds that make a difference for communities around the world. Looking Ahead We release this year’s annual report amidst the backdrop of unprecedented amount of change and uncertainty in the world. The coronavirus pandemic has no boundaries or geographic lines. The new circumstances we all are navigating have illuminated how interconnected our world is and how we need to work together to take care of each other and our communities, and especially those who are most vulnerable. All of us at PayPal are committed to supporting our customers as they manage through the impact of the coronavirus, and we feel fortunate that we are in a position to help. Our products and services are more important to our customers and communities than ever before, and we remain steadfast in our mission. I’ve been leading PayPal for the past five years, and I’ve never been more inspired about the difference we can make for our customers, or more excited about our future. Thank you for your support and confidence. Dan Schulman President and CEO PayPal Holdings, Inc. NOTES: 1 All growth rates represent year-over-year comparisons, except as otherwise noted. FX-neutral results are calculated by translating the current period’s local currency results with the prior period’s exchange rate. FX-neutral growth rates are calculated by comparing the current period FX-neutral results with the prior period’s results, excluding the impact from hedging activities. 2 Adjusted for the sale of our U.S. consumer credit receivables portfolio to Synchrony, which was completed in July 2018. Full year 2019 revenue growth included an expected decline of approximately 3.5 percentage points for full year 2019 related to this sale. 3 Non-GAAP earnings per share is a financial measure not calculated in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). For a reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP earnings per share, please see “Appendix A – Reconciliation of non-GAAP Financial Measures” in the attached proxy statement. Message from Our Independent Chairman of the Board April 8, 2020 Dear PayPal Stockholders, On behalf of the Board, thank you for your investment in PayPal. 2019 was another strong year for PayPal as we continued to execute on our strategic initiatives and deliver long-term, sustainable value to our stockholders. We are also proud of the progress we have made in key areas of corporate governance, including the increasing diversity of our directors, enhancing stockholder engagement, and expanding our environmental and social impact programs that align with PayPal’s mission, vision and values. Board Composition and Diversity. We are proud to have a dynamic, well-functioning Board with the right mix of skills, Proxy Statement experiences, diversity and backgrounds for PayPal. The Board is committed to ensuring that our corporate governance framework supports effective oversight of our Company, strong management accountability, public trust and the ability to adapt to the continuously evolving competitive environment in which we operate. We have a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion at every level of PayPal, including our Board and our Executive Staff. Since 2015, we have added five directors to our Board, all from diverse backgrounds with strong and relevant experience. Forty-five percent of Board members standing for re-election are women or from underrepresented ethnic minorities. Stockholder Engagement. Proactive engagement with our stockholders is an essential part of our Board’s commitment to robust governance. Our year-round stockholder engagement program