“Part of the Venmo experience is the continuous scroll of your friends’ microeconomic activity as told through droll synopsis, inside jokes, and emoji.” Venmo is the way a lot of young people are exchanging money (and yucks). Businessweek’s Felix Gillette on why cash is for losers. (It’s still not that fun to roll around on a bed with a pile of Venmo…)

+ How does a major brand compete in an increasingly digital world where everything from the places we shop to the way we pay seems to be changing by the minute? That’s just what Buzzfeed’s Sapna Maheshwari set out to learn from Gap’s new CEO. “While honoring our stores and having our stores be a great expression of the brand, this [phone]…is really going to be the expression of the brand that most people engage with most significantly.”