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Podcast: Wharton FinTech Podcast
Episode: Scaling a Payments Business with Mike Vaughan, former COO of Venmo & Exec-in-residence at Oak HC/FT
Description: In our latest podcast, Peter Jankovsky (WG'20) is joined by Mike Vaughan. Mike is currently an Executive in Residence at Oak HC/FT, a leading venture capital firm investing in early to growth-stage companies in healthcare and fintech with ~$2 B in AUM. Prior to this role, Mike was the COO of Venmo, scaling the business from the ground floor to 40 M active users, a $300 M revenue run rate, and $100 B in payments in 2019.
In this episode, Mike shares:
- His background and why he jumped into entrepreneurship after graduating from Wharton
- Lessons learned from the early days of Venmo
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