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I was surprised to see Venmo as top payment API. I guess I am out of the loop as I have never heard of it. I expected to see Stripe at the top of that list.

• myth_buster 11y ago
  This was what surprised me... I thought the order would have been Stripe, Paypal...
  • nealrs 11y ago
    OP here. IMO, I think the reason Venmo trumps is because it's P2P payments rather than for retail / enterprise. Most of the hacks using Venmo are about tipping your friends or discouraging bad behavior, etc. Plus, Braintree / Venmo are frequent sponsors.
    • briandear 11y ago
      There should be some asterisk or something next to tech that is a frequent sponsor. That influence severely distorts the conclusions. If we're discussion auto racing and Hyundai was giving out free cars, then would that mean that Hyundai was the best race car because everyone was using it? The intent of this study isn't to see how effective contest sponsorship is, it's to get an idea of popular technologies. Sponsorship non-disclosure paints an inaccurate picture. i.e. Azure being so popular when in the real word, it isn't.
      • fapjacks 11y ago
        Absolutely this. Sponsorship information completely changes the picture.