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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

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I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. So I think it was the first time in 10 years or something the editor couldn’t find a company in the Wall Street Journal database.

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

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Bill Clerico : We kind of instantly became one of the best funded FinTech companies in the Valley. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. A lot of companies show trillion dollar market sizes. So I think like anything it’s been good and bad. And I think our team has done that too.