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

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!

Sponsors:
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Revelo: https://bit.ly/acquiredrevelo
Vanta: https://bit.ly/acquiredvanta

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