#4 Follow The Money

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2014

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Writer Chiara Atik has a hobby -- spying on the financial transactions of friends and strangers. She thinks that Venmo, more than any other social media site, is the place you can find actual, accidental truth online. This week we investigate that claim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I went to dinner at a friend's house.
0:02.8	I have to be so careful that how I say this.
0:05.2	But it was like a small group of friends.
0:08.9	And I brought two bottles of wine.
0:11.5	Everybody like brought something.
0:14.3	And then the host ordered pizza.
0:18.4	This is writer Chiara Atique.
0:20.1	And before we go any further into this anecdote,
0:22.8	you need to know that there's a service called Venmo.
0:25.2	People use it to pay their friend's small amounts of money.
0:27.6	You can Venmo money.
0:29.1	Or you can get charged by your friends.
0:31.1	Get Venmo.
0:32.1	And it was a really nice evening.
0:33.7	And we had pizza and drank wine and had dessert.
0:38.4	And then left.
0:39.8	And like three days later I got Venmo.
0:43.0	Like $10 for the pizza.
0:45.6	It was so shocked.
0:49.4	Like, and is there like a statute of limitations on Venmo?
0:53.2	From Gimlet, I'm PJ Vogue.
0:58.7	And this is Reply All.
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