Following a 20% collapse in PayPal Holdings Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:PYPL) stock price and the abrupt removal of CEO Alex Chriss, former company president David Marcus has broken a twelve-year silence to critique a culture of “financial optimization” that he claims has hollowed out the payments pioneer.Legacy Of OptimizationMarcus, who led PayPal until 2014 before moving to Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) , attributed the company's current struggles to a long-term shift away from product-led innovation.In a scathin ...