Acquired

Acquired Season 3 Episode 7: Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina)

Ben &amp; 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!Sponsors: ServiceNow: <a href="https://bit.ly/acqsnaiagents">https://bit.ly/acqsnaiagents</a> Huntress: <a href="https://bit.ly/acqhuntress">https://bit.ly/acqhuntress</a> Vanta: <a href="https://bit.ly/acquiredvanta">https://bit.ly/acquiredvanta</a> More Acquired!:<a href="https://www.acquired.fm/email">Get email updates</a> with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodes<a href="http://acquired.fm/slack">Join the Slack</a><a href="https://pod.link/acquiredlp">Subscribe to ACQ2</a><a href="https://www.acquired.fm/store">Merch Store</a>!© Copyright 2015-2024 ACQ, LLC Carve Outs:Kortina: <a href="https://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/00/pwillen1/lit/msysip.htm">The Myth Of Sisyphus</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus">Albert Camus</a>David: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L0M749M/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1"> Startup</a> by Jerry KaplanBen: <a href="https://blog.halide.cam/iphone-xs-why-its-a-whole-new-camera-ddf9780d714c"> Halide on the new iPhone XS camera and computational photography</a>

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