Braintree

8 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 22, 2022 by Bryan Johnson · said 30 times in 7 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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2022 16 mentions in 2 episodes 8 per episode
2021 9 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode

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Everything said about Braintree, oldest first

Nov 22, 2022 negative
Opinion
Johnson: PayPal stopped innovating, leaving developers desperate for modern payment tools
“PayPal had Growing up during the internet, but they had stopped really innovating for a couple of years. And so developers didn't have the tools they liked.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 4:44 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022
Insight
Johnson: True employee feedback is what they tell their spouse at home
“It's very hard to get someone's real opinion of you because it's difficult for someone to be honest, but what we all know when we go home from work and we're talking to our significant others, like that's the truth serum in action, you know, like where we real…”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 56:46 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Johnson: Braintree built Uber's original invisible checkout payment infrastructure
“We helped Uber do their no the payment experience where you get in the car, you arrive at your destination, you leave the car, no exchange of payment information, no signing of receipts, no printing out receipts.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 5:26 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Johnson: I walked away with $300M from the Braintree sale to PayPal
“I hit three hundred million.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 16:16 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022
Disclosure
Johnson: I sold Braintree for $800M to fund deep-tech science ventures
“Accumulation of money was not my objective. And I could have stuck with the company and we could have made more, you know, been more valuable, but it was like, okay, so if I do this, it's three hundred million. That's a good enough starting base to go off into…”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 25:38 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022 positive
Opinion
Parr: Braintree buying Venmo for almost nothing is an all-time great acquisition
“Which I think is like the greatest acquisition, one of the best acquisitions of all time, because you bought it for kind of nothing compared to what it is now.”
Sam Parr Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 1:07 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Johnson: At 11 months, Braintree was doing $59k in monthly processing revenue
“At the 11 month mark, my portfolio of customers were generating, I think it was like 59,000 a month of revenue.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 11:34 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Nov 22, 2022
Assertion Supported
Johnson: Braintree's first product was a background credit card vault for OpenTable
“The first product was for OpenTable. It was just allowing someone to make a reservation, put in their credit card number and have it stored. So to the user, it appeared as if I was entering my credit card information in the OpenTable system, when in fact they'…”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 11:00 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
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