A VC: Payments Day
Both of these situations recognize something fundamental about payments. And that is that being in the payment flow allows you to do other more imporant things for your customers. In Etsy’s case, that means things like gift cards, better shipping options, better marketing opportunities. In Dwolla’s case that means making payments essentially free and making money on value added services like Instant and others to come.
Payments are one of those things that are fundamental to the online experience. And there are large networks that are being built with payments at the core of them. We are proud to be involved in companies like Etsy and Dwolla who are working at the intersection of networks and payments and we certainly would like to be meeting more companies like them.
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