Google Wallet

We didn't call Google Pay at that point.

I can't remember, Google Wallet, whatever.

And we had a room of some Google product managers, some engineers, some business people.

And then we were pitched that they wanted us to start accepting crypto within the wallet.

Those that remember MCX.

In 40 years, I'm just thinking about, has there been another payments rollout that's been more successful? And will we ever see anything as successful as Google Pay and Apple Pay?

I acknowledge that Apple Pay, I was going to say got a head start, although actually Google Wallet launched before Apple Pay.

But we could spend a whole hour talking about why that didn't work.

We-- Actually, I managed the company, but, uh, but the, the product, the company is not yet, not extremely really great, but, uh, basically it was the sort of, uh, phenomenon of the s- social network service back before My- MySpace.

And, uh, let's say smart wallet, uh, over here, uh, which is, uh, sort of like a Passbook or Google Wallet, which was maybe created way before Google and Apple.

With ha- with- which is, uh, covering, like around ten to fifteen million users out there, meaning users in Korea using smart wallet pay and manage their-- pay the bill, pay something in the restaurant, and, uh, managing their wallet with this single, single, uh, single application.

Keep doing what you like or raise your pointer-

I'm not sure if it was it, but I think it was called Google Contributor, which was back in the day, about... we're talking about 10 years ago.

Basically, you had, like, a Google Wallet.

And I think there were other things that existed like it, but the Google one's the one that sticks in my mind.

Um, I think, uh, uh, there was another one that Samsung Ads created.

...

but basically you had a...

It was a Google Wallet.

You put money into it, and then you access content from a variety of publishers, like the Times, for example, through Google Contributor, and you would pay what you felt was a reasonable amount of money to pay for reading that article.