Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. Angela: Why Global Payments?

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 76

Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This figure, having risen by 15% over three years, shows how cybercrime is really putting the squeeze on businesses financially. And losses from Authorized Push Payment (APP) fraud totalled nearly £500 million in 2022. You must constantly be innovating, and companies will be spending more and more on this for an awful long time."

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Payments Data Payment Services Payment Solutions 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The role really permeated from focus towards infrastructure for a very long time and that has evolved over time and I think SaaS been a phenomenal catalyst to be able to drive that change and for the CIO to be much more centrally focused to help innovate the company and help govern it. How do we basically accelerate revenue?

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Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 165

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We celebrate businesses like that, and of course, the platform we’re on today with Zoom, that has really become a communications platform that’s defining this COVID era. They’re facilitating virtual schooling, they’re helping governments organize. It is staggering. We call that a second act.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 161

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

They sit down and start scribbling down payments and interest rates in a two-by-two square. Why would we replicate that awful and uncomfortable experience we have in the B2C world with our B2B buyers? When a customer engages with your platform, they have a vision and an expectation of what they’ll achieve,” says Amanda.

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Scale Customer Success SaaS Payments Sales 98

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Because the temptation is always once you start having customers and revenues are growing, things like that, is just to kind of, what we call drag the spreadsheets. So I've had product in there, I've had platform in there, but on that thing, whatever it is I'm working on. So it becomes revenue generating for me.

Payment Methods 140

Payment Methods Software Review Technical Review Payment Solutions 140

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Because the temptation is always once you start having customers and revenues are growing, things like that, is just to kind of, what we call drag the spreadsheets. So I've had product in there, I've had platform in there, but on that thing, whatever it is I'm working on. So it becomes revenue generating for me.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Software Review Technical Review Payment Solutions 40