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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). Loving our podcast content? 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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Then we couldn’t process the payments. And at the end of day, I’m a consumer so I run into that all the time, whether I’m talking to my airline, or whether I’m talking to my Internet provider, or whether I get a package delivered. That’s a really hard problem to fix, and that keeps me up always.

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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

Then we couldn’t process the payments. And at the end of day, I’m a consumer so I run into that all the time, whether I’m talking to my airline, or whether I’m talking to my Internet provider, or whether I get a package delivered. That’s a really hard problem to fix, and that keeps me up always.

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