PayPal's historically large data migration is the foundation for its gen AI innovation

With the dawn of the gen AI era, businesses are facing unprecedented opportunities for transformative products, demanding a strategic shift in their technology infrastructure. A few years ago, PayPal, a digital-native company serving hundreds of millions of customers, faced a significant challenge. After 25 years of success in expanding services and capabilities, we’d created complexity in our data analytics infrastructure. Some 400 petabytes of data was spread across a dozen siloed systems due to limitations of scale and acquisitions of companies like Venmo, Braintree, and others. Our very success in growth and innovation had created complexity that threatened our next evolution. To continue leading the next wave of innovation in financial services, we knew we had to modernize our data foundation. Today, we’re proud to share how PayPal successfully completed what’s arguably one of the largest data migrations in history, culminating with the move of our analytics to BigQuery , Google C