When Chris Maddern discovered his passion for technology, he knew he was hooked. His addiction to it lead to a career that started with pioneering the early days of app development with his company AppLaunch, but quickly lead to a passion that has permeated his career since: solving the challenge of making transactions easier everywhere and anywhere. His work on Venmo revolutionized peer to peer payments and after that success he co-founded Button, which created a marketplace allowing publishers and merchants to make it easier for users to quickly buy, well, anything. Over Sidecars at Fool’s Gold in Manhattan, Chris discusses where his love of technology came from and how he translated that into a life.
What You’ll Learn:
- What is Button and examples of where people would have used it? 4:12
- How did Chris start up this kind of company? 7:40
- Did Chris always want to be in the computer science world? 22:27
- Inside perspective of what the early days of the app store was like 40:40