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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Venmo comes up on Top Founders, 20VC, TBPN, My First Million, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 55:30 Jason Lemkin Um, plus you get Venmo, you get a lot of stuff, but, um, the,
Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
- ▶ 21:26 Jason Calacanis You know, a number of different brands, including Venmo, in addition to PayPal, that might go really well with the, I'm just taking a guess here, with the block assets.
- ▶ 35:45 Jason Calacanis Venmo is also, that speaks to a lot of young people.
Stripe’s $53B PayPal Offer, OpenAI’s First Device, TBPN’s New Business Ideas | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:39 John Coogan So lots of consumers have PayPal accounts, have Venmo accounts. 4 times in the scene
Catalina Crunch: Krishna Kaliannan. From Homemade Keto Cocoa Puffs to Breakfast Aisle Breakthrough
- ▶ 0:09 Krishna Kaliannan I happened to meet a friend in Central Park, and I had told him that I'd been trying out the cereal I was making, and I, and he could try some if he wanted, and then he Venmo'd me for it, and I think he Venmo'd me, like, seven 99 or eight…
- ▶ 23:39 Krishna Kaliannan And then he Venmoed me for it, and I hadn't asked him to pay me for it, so I wasn't expecting it, but it was nice, it was a nice gesture of goodwill on his part, and I think he Venmoed me, like, seven 99 or eight 99, but he Venmoed me a…
When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
- ▶ 4:46 unnamed speaker There's a security camera for making sure you actually Venmo the thing.
- ▶ 19:03 Axel Backlund Uh, so it, it got like a Venmo account, so people could Venmo. 2 times in the scene
Google Raises $80B, Confidential IPO 101, OpenAI Expands Codex | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 31:35 Jordi Hays Taking on Venmo and split wise.
Steph Smith: “This opportunity is totally overlooked”
Anthropic's Generational Run, OpenAI Panics, AI Moats, Meta Loses Major Lawsuits
- ▶ 42:23 Chamath Palihapitiya To your point, they want, they want to be able to like say, okay, pay this with my Venmo, or use my MX in this situation, or get me that flight in some way, and have all these wonderfully smart agents do all the work behind the scenes.
How to bet on yourself (without venture capital) · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 10:27 William Hockey If you look at these emerging markets, take, you know, like Africa, for example, they were the first ones to do mobile payments and pay set like decades ago, well before, like, you know, Venmo.
Scott Galloway: Why I'm selling my American stocks
- ▶ 56:43 Scott Galloway I am hoping some, at some point to have sex with you, so I want to demonstrate strength and that I can take care of your kids versus the guy wearing a Casio watch who talks about sending you a Venmo request.
SpaceX-xAI merger reactions, Paypal plummets, Disney names next CEO | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:16 unnamed speaker Yeah, but they own Venmo. 4 times in the scene
Adam Carolla on California’s Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-Fascism
- ▶ 1:15 unnamed speaker And your customers can pay all the ways they want today with PayPal, Venmo, Pay Later, and all major cards so you can focus on the future.
Massive Somali Fraud in Minnesota with Nick Shirley, California Asset Seizure, $20B Groq-Nvidia Deal
- ▶ 30:33 Nick Shirley I just accept donations via Venmo.
- ▶ 34:01 Nick Shirley Yeah, it's just Nick Shirley, and if you go on X, I do have my tips section open, so if you would like to donate there, that gives them all the, whether it be Venmo, Cash App, crypto, you can all do it right there.
All-In x Kill Tony: A Hilarious Holiday Special
- ▶ 21:33 Tony Hinchcliffe I was on Rogan this week with John Cena, and it came up, but I had this, ah, moment a few weeks ago where I Venmoed a buddy 3 times in the scene
How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
- ▶ 33:21 unnamed speaker So you link a bank account so you can pay a friend on Venmo.
Ideas That Sound Illegal (But Print Money Anyway)
Don't Die CEO Bryan Johnson on Living Forever, AI & His $60M Blueprint For Immortality
- ▶ 30:43 Bryan Johnson so I think that's, that's where the competition is going to be because this is like the days when I was building a Braintree Venmo is it was commoditized. 4 times in the scene
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:20 Jason Calacanis Much worse than your Venmo's getting out. 3 times in the scene
Incubating Brain Co: Elad Gil’s AI Bet with Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Bryan Johnson’s Best Health Hack: Lower Your RHR Before Sleep = Sleep Better and Live Longer
- ▶ 0:17 unnamed speaker Sold Venmo for eight hundred million dollars has spent a fortune on a quest to stay young forever.
Inside Klarna's IPO CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 33:15 Sebastian Siemiatkowski And at this point in time, we were just, there was an equivalent of Venmo that had started getting some tractions in Sweden.
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 1:54 Chris Dixon Things like Uber and Venmo and Stack Overflow, as you mentioned, and just, you know, sort of revolved in a bunch of these networks as, as the internet evolved.
TechCrunch called this YC founder a fraud at 18—then he built a $10M ARR fintech. | Sahil Phadnis... · PMF Show
- ▶ 17:28 Sahil Phadnis We went around all of Berkeley campus knocking on dorm rooms, like every dorm room, you know, one, two, three, Clark Kerr, um, asking people to Venmo us, telling them we will return them 12% on their US dollars.
Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping
- ▶ 1:32:09 Gabe Whaley Our first audience portal was Venmo. 4 times in the scene
Gabe Whaley on Why MSCHF Makes Virality an Art Form
- ▶ 23:33 Gabe Whaley Our first audience portal was Venmo. 4 times in the scene
Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:34:47 Jason Lemkin I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll Venmo it to you.
Trump vs Powell, Solving the Debt Crisis, The $10T AGI Prize, GENIUS Act Becomes Law
- ▶ 1:08:54 Senator Bill Hagerty They want the ability, they're the ones that wanted to get to a 600 dollar threshold for your Venmo transactions reporting everything.
Michael Dell – Invest America Act Becomes Law, AI Talent Wars, Compute Demand, Market Update | BG2 · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 20:32 Brad Gerstner Friends, birthdays, and bar mitzvahs, and all of those dollars ultimately, like, don't really generally find a home for savings and compounding, and we're going to make it as easy as Venmo-ing in this money, Apple paying money in, and, you…
Investing in AI-Driven B2B SaaS, FinTech, and HealthTech: Inside PS27 Ventures
- ▶ 15:03 Hale Bullen Because today, if Christian, if you and I were to go out to dinner and let's say not both of us didn't have Venmo or both of us didn't have Zelle, we would have a slight issue in trying to pay the other one back, right?
How I Built 12 Income Streams Without Tons of Cash
- ▶ 26:40 Codie Sanchez It's literally everything that you make money on your P&L from, everything that you spend money on your P&L from, everything on your credit card statement, everything in your Venmo.
The Utility of Interpretability — Emmanuel Amiesen
- ▶ 1:35:53 Emmanuel Ameisen Show me, show me the, the, like, proof that, that, like, it doesn't exist in the base model, but it does in the fine tuning, and then send me your Venmo.
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:02 Sam Lessin I think Venmo might matter.
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
- ▶ 5:34 John Coogan We've seen that used for Dropbox and Venmo and all these different products.
How Whop Is Making $1.2+ Billion For Creators · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 3:19 Jack Sharky It was Venmo
The Truth About AI: Sam Lessin’s Contrarian Take · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:16 Sam Lessin I was the first investor in Venmo.
- ▶ 15:05 Sam Lessin So I, you know, I was the first investor in Venmo.
Advice Line with Jonathan Neman of Sweetgreen
Inside the $350M Pelosi Stock Tracker · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:01:26 Chris Josephs It's like, just give me a Venmo little button.
The ISSUE with MONEY and how to fix it | Zachary Perret on TBPN April 3rd
- ▶ 0:29 Zachary Perret Um, so we created the API for your bank account, and you probably utilized it when you linked yours, let's say Wells Fargo checking account to the Venmo app. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:15 Zachary Perret Um, you know, it, it's crazy to say that, um, because you, you have online banking and, you know, maybe use Venmo and maybe you
Nikhil Kamath ft. Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas | WTF Online Ep 1. · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 2:01:51 Aravind Srinivas Build like a better version of Venmo or like something like that, right?
#63 Can A Startup Solve Homelessness?
- ▶ 3:21 Josh Muccio It's kind of like Venmo.
The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private
- ▶ 8:36 John Collison You know, UPI in India, PIX in Brazil, you have all these designed by central banks, actually really good kind of government-run Venmo solutions.
BREAKING: DOGE Just Added a GAME CHANGER
- ▶ 2:13 unnamed speaker It's not like, you know, he's very, you know, he's not just in there, you know, just like, he's using it like Venmo or cash app, just
Ep #21 | WTF is Longevity? | Nikhil ft. Nithin Kamath, Bryan Johnson, Prashanth, Jitendra & Seema · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 22:21 Bryan Johnson I, I built Braintree Venmo, a payments company.
TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
How SPORTS BETTING took over America?
- ▶ 18:34 unnamed speaker One of the, the, the argument to legalize sports betting for States is this is happening via bookies and Venmo and Zelle, and we're not getting any of that tax revenue.
The 2024 Milly Awards
The framework for building AI startups from a product design genius
- ▶ 18:15 Mike Hudack We're trying to build like WhatsApp for money or a global Venmo.
- ▶ 19:31 Mike Hudack The way that I ended up deciding to do this thing was I, I did this kind of, like, regret minimization exercise, so I imagined myself, I kind of, like, discovered this thing, right, which is I sent USDC on Solana from the UK to California,…
How to build great products—lessons from Amazon, Facebook, Twitter & Deel. | Aaron Goldsmid, Head... · PMF Show
- ▶ 10:02 Aaron Goldsmid You look at Venmo, Snapchat, Square, Uber, like they're all like in, that's the window.
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 3:00:43 John Coogan Let's just text and Venmo and Apple pay, like, you know, anything to get the money wired faster, just
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:53:48 Ben Gilbert Like, people still keep their Venmo history public.
Zach Perret: Why ‘Founder Mode’ is the Most Dangerous Blog Post for Founders | E1215 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:35 Zach Perret We had a late stage contract with Venmo.
10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- ▶ 1:06:45 Shaan Puri But then, and so you would think, oh, if this is linear, you start with the landline phone, then you get a cell phone, or you start with a bank account, then you start getting a mobile pay like Venmo or whatever.
Stanford Engineer: Gecko-Inspired Space Velcro
- ▶ 15:11 Cyan Banister And I would Venmo you today if I could actually have a strip today.
He fought Al Qaeda in Iraq, turned down $250K at McKinsey—& built a $150M+ ARR unicorn. Here’s ho... · PMF Show
- ▶ 32:18 Blake Hall And, um, and in this room, we're like the founders of Warby Parker, the founders of Venmo.
- ▶ 37:33 Blake Hall Just like PayPal makes your payment credentials portable or Venmo makes your, you know, payment credentials portable.
Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
- ▶ 42:33 Codie Sanchez So basically, Brian founded Braintree, then he bought Venmo, actually you guys have all used that, for only twenty six million, which in the scheme of things, not that much, grew it like crazy, and processed twelve billion payments, then…
5 months in, Snapchat had only 127 users. Here's how Evan Spiegel found product market fit w/ Jer... · PMF Show
- ▶ 3:20 Pablo Srugo Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Spotify, Venmo, WhatsApp, they all were created during that time.
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 36:23 Chris Dixon There's a lot of data, much of it is peer to peer, and there's a lot of anecdotes and data that people are using Tether on Tron and other blockchains that has become a Venmo in certain parts of Asia, and that's growing.
My Step-By-Step Process To Building a $1M+ Business
- ▶ 27:07 Shaan Puri You got my Venmo.
How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
- ▶ 2:08 Noah Kagan Venmo Noah at Noah Kagan.
Consumer Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:16 Tom Blomfield So we, we built a Venmo style
- ▶ 15:39 Tom Blomfield Because we had a bank account, but also this Venmo-like functionality built into the product where you could send and receive money, customers who added three friends from their phone book to their Monzo account so they could send and…
Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid's Zach Perret
- ▶ 8:01 Zach Perret Um, uh, and that was the first kind of big customer that ended up, uh, really scaling with us. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:55 Seema Amble We'd love to transition into just talking about like the initial set of customers, um, you know, leading up to Venmo, let's say, and the Venmo story. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:14 Zach Perret A bunch of fairly decently sized companies, I think, including Venmo and Robinhood under free trials and like their usage was super high and our revenue was, you know, uh, 500 dollars a month from the collective, uh, revenue from all the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:37 Zach Perret Um, uh, and, you know, we were able to get Robin Hood and Venmo early on.
- ▶ 24:18 Seema Amble Larger customers, you know, after you've got Venmo and Robinhood and the others already started to start to sign up.
My $100M Mistake + 6 Company Exit F**k Ups To Avoid (#522)
Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor)
- ▶ 13:23 Ramesh Johari And I found out about this new platform where kind of the, the, the clever thing was, you know, when you used to hire a babysitter, this is like pre Venmo days, you need a cash on hand because when the babysitter is done at the end of the…
Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
- ▶ 1:09:00 Lenny Rachitsky And, uh, Retool started as Venmo for the UK.
Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508)
- ▶ 38:06 Shaan Puri You know, Venmo? 2 times in the scene
Picking sharp problems, increasing virality, and unique product frameworks | Oji Udezue (Typeform)
- ▶ 37:07 Lenny Rachitsky Give me your Venmo QR code.
Frameworks for product differentiation, team building, and first principles thinking | Ayo Omojola
- ▶ 0:26 Ayo Omojola When someone says, hey, why are you better than Venmo?
- ▶ 9:06 Ayo Omojola Like instead of company, like it made people angry, actually, um, really insane focus on design, um, incredible, like depth in, in, this is the thing that I think you will appreciate, but it's very hard to appreciate just like, as a, you… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:16 Lenny Rachitsky And if you're trying to disrupt someone doing something like say Venmo, like you can't just be a better Venmo. 3 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 10 | With Copilot's Chief Architect and founder of Minion.AI Alex Graveley
- ▶ 9:19 Alex Graveley Um, so, you know, we were shooting for Venmo quality, which I think pretty much it.
Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
David Marcus: How I Came to Lead PayPal; Why FB's Crypto Failed; How AI Fixes Inequality | E1001 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 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.
HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
- ▶ 8:07 Guy Raz You go work for Venmo in New York, right, as a software developer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:44 Nuseir Yassin So, you know, you're at Venmo.
- ▶ 14:31 Nuseir Yassin I was making more money than my parents combined at Venmo, and now it's like, I was doing nothing, and I could, I could watch Netflix every day, but, but that's not why we are born.
- ▶ 21:43 Guy Raz Like, now you've got even more income coming in than you got when you worked at Venmo.
From Zero to 100,000: How Jackson Greathouse Mastered Twitter Growth
- ▶ 40:34 Greg Isenberg And then within 1:02, I Venmo, I like, I was like, 2 times in the scene
Jackie Reses & Kris Dickson: What Happened with SVB? Are VCs to Blame? | E988 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 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…
Behind the scenes of Calendly’s rapid growth | Annie Pearl (CPO)
- ▶ 34:51 Annie Pearl I think the best example I can give is, you know, there's lots of small businesses and solopreneurs who would love us to have a Venmo integration. 2 times in the scene
Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:00 Tom Loverro That company was Venmo.
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 23:30 Olivia Moore Maybe it's the younger generation, um, who is, you know, happy and feels safe buying something on their phone versus my parents' generation is still like suspicious of Venmo and thinks their money is going to get stolen every time.
Unveiling Chris Josephs' Million-Dollar Meme Strategy
- ▶ 31:14 Chris Josephs Like the, the IRS is going to come after anyone with a 600 dollar Venmo's.
How a Cookie Invented in 94 Became the Monster Behind Your Data
- ▶ 27:35 Dan Freckling You can go to major apps like Amazon, uh, websites like Amazon and apps like Venmo, Zoom, Spotify, and through this utility, you can opt out and you can update your privacy settings to be safe.
Why Airlines Are Banks, How to Annual Plan for Your Business & The Biggest Myths About Founders
- ▶ 19:34 Alex Lieberman If you're a company like Venmo or PayPal, who, again, you can load money into your Venmo account, but then you want to be able to get dollars out, there's way more regulation on how those businesses can use that money to actually fund… 2 times in the scene
William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:33 William Hockey 10 years ago, it was, you know, Venmo and Square Cash revolutionized peer-to-peer payments.
How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
- ▶ 1:05 Sam Parr You guys also bought Venmo.
- ▶ 22:15 Bryan Johnson Uh, number two is that, um, like the, the, the movement into OS fund was like, okay, wait, I did bring to Venmo primarily a software engineering objective within an established industry of payments. 2 times in the scene
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