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Acquired’s Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal on private markets, ZIRP impact, future of Amazon | E1706

This Week in Startups

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The Future of Twitter Payments

I think Elon's going to figure out some things with Twitter in terms of what he wants to do with payments because he's got some DNA. I thought creating a DM product for Twitter, that was just just DMS. Like just a messenger. You can only have your app ask one time or two times to turn on certain features like on an iPhone,. etc. But on a system level, to be able to start everybody over and then have a product that was just like super DM, and it had like some great features in it could have been like a modern WhatsApp competitor. That might be a bigger global opportunity than Twitter even.

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