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Wow, good find! I'll add this set of links to the post. Quote was def there when I was first writing the post.


These wikipedia edits kind of underscore the point in a sad/funny way.

Updated the post with some of this research y'all did: https://s3.amazonaws.com/4rk/screen-shot-2020-03-22-10.25.27... . Thanks again for sharing the edit history you found!


y'all are right it's not the point, but here is the hn exclusive closure: https://s3.amazonaws.com/4rk/screen-shot-2020-03-21-20.12.13...


That's a tradition--we'll be doing the same at pennapps again in a few weeks.


Thanks, Ivan. For those who are wondering, the Venmo apps aren't going away: http://bit.ly/bt-venmo



Interested in revenue vs exit valuation... Can you say anything about it? The margins must be phenomenally low if the valuation was only 10% of what you process yearly...


If you process $260mm and charge 0% it's not really fair to view $26mm as a 10% revenue multiplier.

(Even for the small part of their business funded by credit cards, there's a $500 per customer lifetime exemption, and 3% minus higher fraud rate and 2-2.5+% CNP processor and interchange still puts their revenue at less than a small team's salary with 100% credit cards, and probably less than $100k/yr revenue on credit cards overall.

They're obviously being bought for team, technology, and growth potential; current customers are just traction, not revenue.


I always felt there were lots of gymnastics required to get data into a suitable format for Google charts (filling zeroes in time series, tough to work with multiple series, etc)


Cool, I'll check it out. Thanks for the Rx. Is it pretty quick to work with for you?


yup documentation is nice.. with clean javascript wrapper and highly customizable


Venmo - we are going to replace credit cards.

We're hiring in NYC:

* iOS engineers

* Android engineers

* python / platform engineers

Please send some links to apps or projects you have worked on to jobs@venmo.com or email me directly - kortina@


Yes, good point about the refactoring.


Send an email to api@venmo.com if you would like to play with our beta API.


Ticketleap, Nearverse, and Duck Duck Go are a couple of other Philly tech companies.

Let me know if you want to grab coffee and chat about the tech scene here.


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