| 词条 | Clinkle |
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| name = Clinkle | logo = Clinkle logo.jpg | type = Privately held company | industry = Mobile payments | foundation = Palo Alto, California, United States ({{Start date|2012}}) | defunct = {{end date|2015}} | founder = Lucas Duplan | location_city = San Francisco | location_country = United States | homepage = {{URL|www.clinkle.com}} }} Clinkle was a mobile payments company founded in 2012. In 2013 they raised $25 million[1] and the product launched to college students on September 24, 2014.[2] The company founder, Lucas Duplan, shut down the company in 2015. HistoryClinkle was founded in 2011 by Lucas Duplan, then a computer science student at Stanford University.[3][4] Duplan had decided to work on mobile payments during a study abroad program in London after his freshman year.[4] Upon returning to Stanford, Duplan received guidance from Mehran Sahami, a professor who taught the university's introductory programming methodology class.[5] Clinkle rented a house in Palo Alto, California using money from Duplan's parents and a summer program through Highland Capital Partners.[6][7] With approximately a dozen students building the app, it ran a beta test at Stanford in which testers could send payments to each other.[4] Through VMware co-founder Diane Greene, Duplan met Accel partner Jim Breyer, who became interested in the company after discussing it with Stanford professors and graduate students.[3] Breyer became an investor following his first meeting and product demonstration with Duplan and participated in a round of funding for the company.[8] By June 2013, Clinkle had raised $25 million from a broad range of investors, including Greene, Andreessen Horowitz, Intel Capital, Intuit, Peter Thiel, and Owen Van Natta.[9][10][11][12][13] The funding amounted to the largest seed round in Silicon Valley.[14] Shortly after, Duplan moved the 50-person company from Mountain View to San Francisco.[15] In 2016 a photo was leaked of CEO Duplan and Richard Branson burning wads of fake $100 bills.[16] In October 2013 former Netflix chief financial officer Barry McCarthy became Clinkle's chief operating officer,[17] and two more former Netflix executives later joined as vice presidents.[18] McCarthy left Clinkle after less than 5 months at the company.[19] Near the end of the year, the company laid off a quarter of its employees.[20] In 2015 seven core employees quit and the remaining team is believed mostly consultants providing support and no more than 12, down from 70 several years ago.[21] Forbes reported in January 2016 that investors were losing patience with the lack of any market product and were requesting a return of funds.[16] ProductClinkle released an app for download on Google Play and the iTunes Store. Clinkle first launched on college campuses and targeted merchants near college campuses.[3][22][23] Clinkle announced on September 26, 2013 that after two months of opening their college waitlists, over 100,000 students had signed up despite no clear product description.[24][25] Until September 2014, the app had very limited functionality and only allowed users to join a waitlist [26] with a launch date of September, 2014. Before launching, the company had released limited information about its product, despite significant press coverage{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}. The product was intended to include a mobile app that served as an online wallet.[26] Wallets would be linked to existing credit cards and bank accounts.[3] A June 2013 report by TechCrunch stated that the app was going to use high-frequency sound to send payments between devices; however, the section was shortly retracted.[5] Clinkle confirmed that the product would not require near field communication, a wireless technology used by Google Wallet and Apple Pay.[3] Clinkle stated that the product would also provide merchants with information about their customers for the purpose of targeted sales promotions.[7] Despite its initial launch as an alternative payments processing system, it has lost its technological edge to new products like Venmo, a peer-to-peer payments app, and later Apple Pay, which achieved what the company had originally set out to do.[16] The company decided to pivot, and launched to the public on September 24, 2014 a new flagship downloadable application aimed at college students.[2] The launch debuted a Clinkle Card that allows users to earn rewards for paying at stores and online. After every seventh payment, Clinkle card users are awarded a "Treat". They can send that Treat to a friend along with a photo and a caption. Some Treats refund the recipient's next purchase. Treats are publicly displayed on a social feed within the app, but the Treat's photo is blurred for the recipient until it's opened. Treats that earn boosts from friends are more likely to open for a free purchase. 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|url=http://readwrite.com/2013/06/27/startup-clinkle-has-a-high-frequency-plan-to-push-mobile-payments |title=Startup Clinkle Has A High Frequency Plan To Push Mobile Payments |date=June 27, 2013 |publisher=ReadWrite |accessdate=January 19, 2014}} 13. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/06/27/payments-startup-clinkle-raises-25-million-seed-round/ |title=Payments Startup Clinkle Raises $25 Million Seed Round |last=Geron |first=Tomio |date=June 27, 2013 |website=Forbes |accessdate=January 19, 2014}} 14. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/12/04/payments-startup-clinkle-nabs-more.html |title=Payments startup Clinkle nabs more talent from Netflix as it rounds out its exec team |last=Drake |first=Sarah |date=December 4, 2013 |website=Silicon Valley Business Journal |publisher=American City Business Journals |accessdate=January 23, 2014}} 15. ^{{cite web 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Netflixers To Fill Out Its Exec Ranks |last=Lawler |first=Ryan |date=December 4, 2013 |publisher=TechCrunch |accessdate=January 23, 2014}} 19. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.recode.net/2014/3/13/11624542/clinkles-still-a-hot-mess-as-its-big-shot-coo-departs|title=Clinkle's Still a Hot Mess as Its Big Shot COO Departs (Updated)|first=Jason Del|last=Rey|date=13 March 2014|publisher=|accessdate=16 October 2016}} 20. ^{{cite web |url=http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/09/layoffs-clinkle/ |title=Layoffs at stealth payment startup Clinkle |last=Primack |first=Dan |date=December 9, 2013 |publisher=CNNMoney.com |accessdate=January 26, 2014}} 21. ^{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/15/clunk/|title=Clinkle Implodes As Employees Quit In Protest Of CEO|first=Josh|last=Constine|publisher=|accessdate=16 October 2016}} 22. ^{{cite web |url=http://allthingsd.com/20130627/pressure-is-on-stealth-payments-startup-clinkle-as-it-raises-25-million-from-big-name-investors/ |title=Pressure Is on Stealth Payments Startup Clinkle as It Raises $25 Million From Big-Name Investors |last=Del Rey |first=Jason |date=June 27, 2013 |publisher=All Things Digital |accessdate=January 19, 2014}} 23. ^{{cite web |url=http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/06/27/clinkle-25-million-square/ |title=Clinkle raises $25 million to kill Square |last=Primack |first=Dan |date=June 27, 2013 |publisher=CNNMoney.com |accessdate=January 19, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113022103/http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/06/27/clinkle-25-million-square/ |archivedate=January 13, 2014 |df= }} 24. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/228593/ |title=Richard Branson Invests in a Startup That No One Understands Yet |last=Huspeni |first=Andrea |year=2013 |website=Entrepreneur |accessdate=January 19, 2014}} 25. ^{{cite web |url=http://gigaom.com/2013/09/26/clinkle-becomes-a-tech-celebrity-magnet-landing-richard-branson-as-an-investor/ |title=Clinkle becomes a tech celebrity magnet, landing Richard Branson as an investor |last=Fitchard |first=Kevin |date=September 26, 2013 |publisher=GigaOM |accessdate=January 19, 2014}} 26. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://gigaom.com/2013/06/27/stanfords-25m-secret-payments-startup-clinkle-wants-to-make-your-college-cashless/ |title=Stanford's $25M secret: Payments startup Clinkle wants to make your college cashless |last=Fitchard |first=Kevin |date=June 27, 2013 |publisher=GigaOM |accessdate=January 23, 2014}} 27. ^{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/23/clinkle/|title=Mobile Wallet Laughingstock Clinkle Finally Launches To Let You Pay Friends And Earn “Treats”|first=Josh|last=Constine|publisher=|accessdate=16 October 2016}} Further reading
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