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I had a meeting with their sales people back in 2013 or so, a few year anyway, and I remember thinking after the hour long pitch that the claims where entirely
by jaymzcampbell 11y ago
I had a meeting with their sales people back in 2013 or so, a few year anyway, and I remember thinking after the hour long pitch that the claims where entirely delusional and pumped up. It was "just" a QR code with an app behind it and ultimately nothing at all fancy but they spoke about it like it was a total paradigm shift in buying. I never got how they lasted so long, reading the glassdoor reviews over the past year it was clearly a sinking ship years ago.
I honestly can't understand how they got nearly $100m in funding.
- Nursie 11y agoI saw it from the inside and thought much the same. The PoS product was actually pretty good...
- edent 11y agoYup - same here. The whole product was just... meh. If it had been backed by a market leader or (shudder) a consortium, it might have had a chance of success. But a new entrant trying to sign up merchants individually?
- madaxe_again 11y agoThey weren't interested in working with platforms either - they were actually actively offensive when we contacted them. Probably something to do with Wagner's background at Venda, a platform provider he founded. Their users group call themselves "the prisoners of Venda"!
- astrange 11y agoMight as well go for the pun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Zenda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Zenda