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My First 16: Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid’s Zach Perret

Andreessen Horowitz

So when my co founder William and I first founded Plaid, we had this vision that we wanted to create, tools to help consumers better analyze their finances. But along the way we found that the tool that we’d built was really interesting to a lot of other developers. So Plaid had a bit of a rocky early start.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pipe and MessageBird — March 13, 2020

SaaStr

So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. And I guess this was somewhat foreshadowing because I’m now backed by David Saks who is the founding team there. Our team met with David just a few days after our initial conversation in San Francisco.