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Acquired Season 3 Episode 7: Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina)
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Length:
73 minutes
Released:
Oct 29, 2018
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Podcast episode
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Our latest experiment! Become an Acquired Limited Partner and get access to LP-only bonus content: http://kimberlite.fm/acquired ———— Ben & David are joined by special guest and Venmo cofounder Andrew Kortina for our first-ever SF live show! In front of a packed house we chronicle the journey of how two freshman-year roommates from Penn turned a healthy obsession with Craigslist and a fake podcast into an app that facilitated $17B of payments last quarter alone, producing not one but two landmark acquisitions along the way! Note: the audio quality is a little rough due to some A/V issues at the live show. We apologize! Links: Fin Promo Code, good for $100 of credit and a waived subscription fee (normally $20): http://fin.com/acquired Carve Outs: Kortina: The Myth Of Sisyphus by Albert Camus David: Startup by Jerry Kaplan Ben: Halide on the new iPhone XS camera and computational photography Sponsor: Thanks to Silicon Valley Bank for sponsoring all of Acquired Season 3. You can get in touch with Reetika Grewal, who you heard at the beginning of this podcast, here.
Released:
Oct 29, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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