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Rampton aims to monopolize payments and bankrupt rivals PayPal and Venmo
“You know, ultimately do want to monopolize it and put some of those guys out of business, obviously, or have them acquire us mainly put them out of business. We don't, our goal is not to be acquired.”
Clerico: P2P payments cannot work as a standalone business
“Really because there's no business model, it's about, you know, people expect that to be free and it's very hard to make money on that. So It makes a lot of sense as part of a bigger platform. And, you know, now most people don't know this, but Venmo is owned …”
Software vendors driving payment gateway volume receive revenue share agreements
“So when you have volume going through any gateway, basically every company has some agreement with the gateway to get some kind of mutual funding that goes back and forth, like authorized.net has one. Braintree has one. PayPal has one. They all have one. So ev…”
Latka: PayPal began as an online community for eBay sellers
“Look at PayPal started as a community for eBay sellers. I mean, every big business start off as a, like a forum or community of somehow, some kind.”
Omnisend earned free backlinks from Google and PayPal via statistics reports
“What really worked the best for us, and those what I mentioned, Google, HubSpot, PayPal, not talking about major media outlets, mentioned Omnis and Dame, just completely for free.”
Lauris: Omnisend Grew Domain Authority to 88 Across 14,400 Referring Websites
“Currently we do have almost 200,000 links that refer to omniscient domain. Our main website, our blog it comes from 14.4 thousand unique websites, including like PayPal, Hubspot, Mailchimp is even quoting us. Google in the articles is quoting us. I mean, those…”
60% of Paddle's Software Transactions in Germany Use PayPal
“In Germany, most people like to use PayPal to buy software. Kind of blew my mind when I learned that, but 60% of our transactions from Germany are done via PayPal.”
Latka: Acquired SendLater and 75k Email List for $1,000
“Four days after that email, we had a deal. No lawyers. No accountants. Just an email agreement and me sending a thousand dollars via PayPal. It was an incredible setup because that 1000 dollars included a working Chrome extension and a 75,000 person email list…”
PrestaShop monetizes free open-source software via marketplace add-ons and sponsors
“We mostly monetize through add-ons sales. So we've built and developed a software which is open source and distributed for free on our websites. And the way we get money, it mainly comes from So modules or add-ons or connectors, which are sold on our marketpla…”
JourneyQuest recouped its entire season one budget via PayPal within one year
“So based purely on fan contributions via a PayPal button on our site, we made back our entire production budget in a year. We paid our investors back.”
Hansbury: YouStake takes a 5% net fee on poker staking raises
“No, no, we're taking, we actually get five percent. There's eight percent added to the raise, but five percent goes to us. That's our fee. And the other 2.9% basically is, is the merchant fee that goes to the, you know, credit card and PayPal and those kinds o…”