Venmo
4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 26, 2023 by Annie Pearl · said 13 times in 5 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (5), Ayo Omojola (5), Annie Pearl (2), Ramesh Johari (1)
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2023 13 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Frameworks for product differentiation, team building, and first principles thinking | Ayo Omojola
- Behind the scenes of Calendly’s rapid growth | Annie Pearl (CPO)
- Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor)
- Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
- Picking sharp problems, increasing virality, and unique product frameworks | Oji Udezue (Typeform)
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Everything said about Venmo, oldest first
Feb 26, 2023 negative
Calendly deprioritized Venmo integration to focus on sales, recruiting, and CS
“There's lots of small businesses and solopreneurs who would love us to have a Venmo integration. We have a PayPal integration, but you know, our target market that we're really trying to go after as our primary, you know, persona are As I've mentioned, these s…”
May 14, 2023 positive
Omojola: Instant funds availability was Cash App's primary Venmo differentiator
“Or rather it was the cut through the clutter differentiator. There were like, actually like a lot of other sort of long tail of things that were doing those different, but it was like instant was the thing where, you know, When someone says, Hey, why are you b…”
May 14, 2023 positive
Omojola: Cash App was the fastest, cheapest US P2P transfer method
“Like, for, like, three or four years in the United States, the fastest and lowest cost way to move money in the country between any two people who had bank accounts was CashApp. And I think that kind of changed in 2017 when PayPal, Venmo, Apple Cash, et cetera…”