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I've heard of killer apps but I wonder if there's such a thing as a killer vendor/customer. I hate being too dumb to work at places like this. :(
by sown 14y ago
I've heard of killer apps but I wonder if there's such a thing as a killer vendor/customer.
I hate being too dumb to work at places like this. :(
- ChuckMcM 14y agoAbsolutely, there are deals that 'make' the company. Look at Google's initial deal with AOL, that was pretty huge for Google at the time.
- dm8 14y agoIt was Google's deal with Yahoo that catapulted them to mega success! They were Yahoo's OEM for search and Yahoo was Internet's home page at that time.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoYou are right of course, I keep seeing various reports over the years of the AOL deal [1] which clouds ones memory ... [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/02/aol-google-search-deal-re_n_703566.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/02/aol-google-search-d...
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- pbreit 14y agoI think you're right. Starbucks is absolutely the best possible partner/customer to help Square make "Pay With Square" a broad reality.
- philip1209 14y agoFurthermore, I think that Starbucks made itself the best possible partner/consumer for "Pay With Square" by pursuing the Starbucks Card program outside of traditional payment solutions. Ostensibly, they stumbled upon the opportunity for such a non-traditional payment system, and thus validated the Square strategy prior to the partnership.