Woah, I just bought my dad an iPhone
Andrew Staub here, Venmo Growth Engineer, with a story that captures why I think Venmo is awesome.
My father turned 60 in May. Three weeks ago, he gave in to child pressure and switched from AOL to Gmail and ditched his 8 year-old palm pilot and 3 year-old flip phone in favor of the iPhone 3GS. I had repeatedly encouraged him that these new products were designed so well that he would have no problem picking them up.
And then reality hit. He was calling me three times a day with questions and having trouble making a simple phone call. Most likely, no matter your age, you have experienced a similar situation. You encourage your parents to adopt a new technology and their enormous fear of change causes a great deal of stress.
