Venmo

There was a year of my life that was dedicated to being the most annoying person in Silicon Valley. I worked as a technical recruiter, calling through companies like Yahoo! and eBay, saying whatever I could to get a software engineer on the line and convince them to consider leaving their job to work for my client.

My clients were fast-growing startups looking for superstar programmers during the rise of the “Dot-com Bubble.” The value of a qualified engineer was worth millions, even billions, to the right startup with the right product. It was like being a stockbroker for people.

Software engineers are very, very busy people. They are making six figures working 16-hour days to code products – and nine times out of 10, when their phone rings, it’s someone like me on the line. I literally had five seconds to get their attention and differentiate myself from all the other recruiters. If that happened and I actually got their resume, it needed to be in line with my client’s requirements. Then began the delicate dance of coaching both through the interview, offer negotiations and hiring process. You can imagine how stressful that was. I can’t believe I was able to do it for a year.

Back then, the hottest platforms were mobile apps. Today, it’s money. Alternate currencies like Steem Coin kaufen and BitCoin which you buy and spend online. And now there alternate payment methods like Apple Pay, Google pay, Steam Wallet and One Touch are gaining consumers’ trust as an acceptable way to make VeriSign Secured payments. Physical cash is quickly becoming a thing of the past. In fact, BitCoin is especially on the rise and if you want to see some Bitcoin Statistics click here! Hey, if it’s protected by the FDIC, it’s as good as mailing a check or writing an IOU.

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Snapchat launched Snapcash in partnership with Square last November. But the launch was the same month hundreds of thousands of Snapchat’s private user photos were leaked, scaring the crap out of Millennials. However, there is a product that’s been beta testing for two years that has seemed to gain the trust of millions called Venmo.

Venmo is dubbed “the little social payment app.” Little because users are limited to sending no more than $2,000 per week, and social because it has a stream of all your friends’ payments. I had my doubts when downloading and looking through the service. It can’t be completely free. And who wants to let all their friends know who they are paying, and when?

It’s not completely free. Credit card payments are subject to a 2.9 percent fee, but direct bank accounts are free. It’s not completely social either, as that option can be turned off before sending money.

This is a great way to split dinner, organize office parties or chip in for bottle service. Payments made are deposited to your bank account the next day.

Keeping up with the fast-moving companies in the tech world, I sometimes miss being more involved in the action. Saying I was directly responsible for some of the magic happening, especially for some clients that went public, is kind of huge. Sometimes, the more stressful and diffi-cult work is worth the amazing payout, but sometimes my own sanity is worth more.

@SUPERCW Christa Wittmier is “SUPERCW” on all social media. Find her on Snapchat, Soundcloud, Twitter, Vine and Instagram. By night, she is known as DJ SuperCW. By day, she is known as senior marketing director for Young’s Market Company of Hawaii. Her nightlife blog SuperCity runs every Wednesday on HonoluluPulse.com.