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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with MessageBird and Gainsight — October 18, 2019

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As for Robert, prior to MessageBird, he was co-founder and CEO of Zaypay.com which focused on driving mobile payments into 50+ countries, enabling 1.5bln users to pay for virtual goods through their phones (sold to Mobile Interactive Group (MIG). billion users to pay for virtual goods through their phones.

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“Early Gains, Early Pains: 5 Lessons for Surviving Hypergrowth” Stride.VC Founder Harry Stebbings and MessageBird Founder and CEO Robert Vis (Video + Transcript)

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Robert Vis: So, I was working on my previous company called ZayPay, which was an API to pay for virtual goods on your mobile phone bill, and we ran into this problem where we needed to use text messaging as a way to verify user’s phone numbers. Then we couldn’t process the payments.

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“Early Gains, Early Pains: 5 Lessons for Surviving Hypergrowth” Stride.VC Founder Harry Stebbings and MessageBird Founder and CEO Robert Vis (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Robert Vis: So, I was working on my previous company called ZayPay, which was an API to pay for virtual goods on your mobile phone bill, and we ran into this problem where we needed to use text messaging as a way to verify user’s phone numbers. Then we couldn’t process the payments.

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