Acquired Season 3 Episode 7: Venmo (live with Andrew Kortina)

Ben & David are joined by special guest and Venmo cofounder
Andrew Kortina for our first-ever SF live show! In front of a
packed house we chronicle the journey of how two freshman-year
roommates from Penn turned a healthy obsession with Craigslist
and a fake podcast into an app that facilitated $17B of payments
last quarter alone, producing not one but two landmark
acquisitions along the way!


Note: the audio quality is a little rough due to some A/V issues
at the live show. We apologize!


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Carve Outs:

Kortina: The Myth Of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

David:  Startup by Jerry Kaplan

Ben:  Halide on the new iPhone XS camera and
computational photography