Andrew Kortina

Hello,

I'm really impressed and intrigued by Venmo.com and I'm interested in featuring it on the Philadelphia edition of Thrillist. Thus, I'm looking for some detailed information about the concept/realization. If you could contact me at 484.467.7828 and/or joshua@thrillist.com at your earliest convenience, I'd greatly appreciate it, as I'm looking to get moving on this article ASAP.

Just in case you’re unfamiliar with Thrillist, here’s a brief primer:

Thrillist is a free, daily lifestyle email service/website geared toward guys (although not exclusively -- about 25-30% of our subscribers are female). We cover everything that's new or under the radar, from bar and restaurant openings to local men's fashion designers/trends, and generally anything we deem cool enough to pimp out to our readers.

Locally speaking, even though the Philly edition just launched in February, we're already over the 35,000 mark for direct subscribers, not to mention forwards and people who just visit the site itself on a daily basis.

Nationally speaking, Thrillist.com runs 14 city editions, as well as a National edition, with an overall subscriber rate of more than 1.3M. We never charge our subscribers nor the subjects we cover/feature.

As a little pat on the back, Thrillist recently won Business Insider's Silicon Valley Award for "Best Buzz", and while the article below's a bit dated, this Business Week piece can provide more insight into the Thrillist culture/effect/etc:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_72/s0812028659556.htm

It's actually from last December, when we had a total/national sub base of 500,000. Here we are less than a year later and we've already more than doubled that figure.

But enough about us, I'm more interested in hearing more about the Grind. Please give me a call when you have a second and we'll go from there.

Best,
Joshua

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www.thrillist.com
Philadelphia Editor
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Andrew,
(I hope you are the right one.)
I just had a wonderful chat with your grandmother.
I am trying to contact you and your company
www.wemuscistore.com.
I need to change my pricing on my CD to $49.95.
My CD is titled Pass It On version 2
My website is www.hypnotichelp.com
I will try to find your phone number is New York.
Hope to hear from you!
Namaste'
Scot
530-848-8262

Scot, you found the right person. I will give you a call this evening.