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The Bachelorette: Here's What We Can Dig Up About Venmo Guy John Graham

31/05/2018 - 06:40 PM

The premiere of The Bachelorette [1] was, as always, jam-packed with gorgeous men and lots of drama. The men on this season are definitely handsome and diverse, and we're particularly intrigued by John Graham [2]'s backstory. During his interaction with Becca, he casually mentioned to her that he helped create the app Venmo. Uh, that's a pretty big deal, John. So just how much is the tech guy worth? We don't know the exact number, but there's a lot of information that could give us an idea.

John, a software engineer, was one of the foundational members of Venmo [3], being the fifth active hire in the company. In 2012, Venmo was acquired by payment company Braintree for $26.2 million [4]. A year later, PayPal acquired Braintree for $800 million.

According to Glassdoor, software engineers typically make a base salary around $104,000 a year [5], and software engineers at Venmo currently make a base salary around $123,000 a year [6].

According to John's post on Medium, he worked at Venmo for three years [7] before transitioning to Fin [8], a startup working on creating an operating system, similar to the one seen in the movie Her. John works as a product engineer, which makes between $137,000 and $148,000 in base pay [9]. Based on all that information, we think it's safe to say John is doing pretty well financially.

Though we didn't really get a chance to get to know him on the first episode, we have a feeling this won't be the last we see of John, and we can't wait to watch if he and Becca have a connection together this season.


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