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Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal Jul 23, 2026 · 1 mention

Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 23, 2025 · 3 mentions

Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 21, 2025 · 1 mention

Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 5, 2025 · 1 mention

TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 31, 2025 · 1 mention

Zach Perret: Why ‘Founder Mode’ is the Most Dangerous Blog Post for Founders | E1215 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 16, 2024 · 1 mention

David Marcus: How I Came to Lead PayPal; Why FB's Crypto Failed; How AI Fixes Inequality | E1001 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 14, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:32 David Marcus That's when we basically acquired Braintree and Venmo and tried to bring that, um, that talent and that energy, uh, into the company.

Jackie Reses & Kris Dickson: What Happened with SVB? Are VCs to Blame? | E988 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 13, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:03 Jackie Reses You know, if you go to Venmo disclosures and Cash App disclosures and PayPal disclosures, there are banks that sit underneath a hundred percent of those products, and so you have to really make sure that you have a healthy banking system…

Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 13, 2023 · 1 mention

William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 3, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:33 William Hockey 10 years ago, it was, you know, Venmo and Square Cash revolutionized peer-to-peer payments.

20VC: Scaling to a $1.3Bn Valuation While in Stealth, The Power of Different Network Effects Within Payment Platforms & How To Leverage Your Board and Investor Base for the Most Value with Matan Bar, Founder & CEO @ Melio Feb 11, 2021 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 3:12 Matan Bar Some parts of Venmo were also owned by my team, but whether it's paying back for coffee using the PayPal app or sending money to your family abroad, this was part of my team.
  • ▶ 6:32 Matan Bar Like Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, Square Cash, all these payment networks, they became ubiquitous around the US,
  • ▶ 8:16 Matan Bar And the reason is actually a little bit related to the network effect that I was referring to with Zelle and Venmo and Square Cash. 4 times in the scene

20VC: Retool Founder, David Hsu on Why YC Is Helpful Pre Product-Market Fit but Not Post and Why VCs Are Not Helpful Pre-Product Market-Fit but are Post, Why it is Difficult to Become Unprofitable if You Set Yourself Up For Profitability Early & Why VC Th Dec 17, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:11 David Hsu And one of the major side projects that we ended up working on was basically something like a clone of Venmo, basically, for the UK. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto Feb 4, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:40 Sam Lessin I had the fortune of being able to invest in some of my friends' startups like Venmo and Birchbox and MakerBot, and I loved investing.

20VC: Lessons Learned Scaling PillPack from Seed to Amazon Acquisition, Why Investors Should Spend More Time Assessing Human Capital Risk Taken by Founders & The Right Way To Think About Capital Efficiency in Scaling with David Frankel, Managing Partner @ Sep 17, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings So with that in mind, I'm thrilled to welcome back David Frankel, managing partner at Founder Collective, one of the leading seed funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Uber, PillPack, Coupang,…

20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today Jul 3, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:47 Eric Feng Apple Pay with Venmo and Stripe just kind of making payments, lowering tremendously the friction of payments.

20VC: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on Why We Are In A Fallow Period For Consumer, Why It Is Bogus That Operational VCs Can Add More Value & 2 Golden Rules To Always Tell Entrepreneurs Pre-Investment Jun 26, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:30 Jeremy Levine Well, actually, so we, the most recent investment actually was, it was a very recent one just a few weeks ago and back, but it was a company in Korea called Toss, which could be simplistically described as a Venmo-like service for Korea…

20VC: Sam Lessin on Why Bots Will Change Business & The Internet Has Mostly Failed May 25, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:51 Sam Lessin And so I was, you know, one of the first investors in MakerBot and the first investor in Birchbox and, you know, the first investor in Venmo and a bunch of awesome companies. 2 times in the scene

20 VC: Investing in Hardware and The Future of IOT with Kate Shillo, Director @ Galvanize Ventures Jan 13, 2016 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings And there, Kate led the investments in the likes of Venmo and Paperless Post,
  • ▶ 9:41 Harry Stebbings So when you look back at these incredible experiences in, in building Lyra Ventures, and then at Huffington Post, and leading investments in, in Venmo, and Paperless Post, what were your biggest takeaways from these experiences?
  • ▶ 26:16 Kate Shillo Pana, Wildcard, and Venmo.
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