Acquired Season 3 Episode 7: Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina) - a podcast by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

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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.

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