A few weeks ago I gave a presentation at Weiss Tech House encouraging Penn students with ideas for new businesses to found their own startups. I talked about how I met my co-founder (Iqram and I were randomly selected as freshman year roommates at Penn), ran through the long list of things we have worked on together, and explained how and why we started Venmo.
For slides, I used screenshots of past projects and some photos. This one (from our junior year, I think), captures a lot of the sentiment that inspired Venmo. We are building a service friends can use to exchange money, and this is how we’d like you to feel every time you use our apps.
George Benson - On Broadway
Mos Def - Habitat
Remap the keyboard shortcut to move focus to menu bar in OS X. So so so useful.
“No is to live small and embittered, cherishing the opportunities you missed because they might have sent the wrong message.”
Freddie Mercury & Michael Jackson - State of shock
Ito En tea bag is GENIUS.
