eBay's PayPal Acquires Payments Gateway Braintree For $800M In Cash
news article · 2013
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SUMMARY
Contemporary (26 September 2013) report of PayPal's all-cash $800 million acquisition of Braintree, the payments company Bryan Johnson founded in 2007, which had itself acquired Venmo for $26.2 million in 2012. Independently corroborated the same day by USA Today and Forbes. Used for the case's financial-conflict-stage biography: the source of the personal capital that funded Johnson's original, pre-commercial Blueprint self-experiment.
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This 2013 report establishes, from a contemporaneous source rather than a later retrospective, the scale and date of the transaction that gave Johnson the personal wealth to fund Project Blueprint’s original uncontrolled self-experiment beginning in 2021.