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Financial services company referenced in the founders2.json database — likely a fintech or investment firm in the Founders podcast ecosystem.
Likely Eric Glyman, co-founder and CEO of Ramp — the corporate card and expense management company that grew to $100M ARR faster than any company in history.
American electronic brokerage founded by Thomas Peterffy — which offers the lowest commission rates and access to the most global markets of any retail broker — and which is particularly popular with sophisticated investors and active traders.
Ukrainian-American entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal (CTO) with Peter Thiel and others — creating the PayPal Mafia — and later founded Affirm (buy now pay later), Slide, Yelp (co-founder), and HVF (data company) — one of the most prolific serial entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.
American software engineer and writer — at Stripe — who writes under the handle 'patio11' on HackerNews and his blog — whose writing on software business, pricing, and Japan is some of the most practically useful in tech.
American digital payments company co-founded by Max Levchin and Peter Thiel as Confinity in 1998 — merged with Elon Musk's X.com in 2000 — which created the dominant internet payment platform and whose alumni (the PayPal Mafia) went on to found or fund Tesla, SpaceX, YouTube, LinkedIn, Yelp, Yammer, and more.
American fintech company offering corporate cards and spend management software — which reached $100M ARR faster than any company in history — by aligning incentives with customers to actually reduce spending rather than maximize it.
American corporate card and expense management company founded in 2019 — which grew to $100M ARR faster than any company in history — by making it easy for companies to save money rather than spend it, inverting the typical corporate card incentive.
Ben Eidelson's deep-dive podcast covering technology company histories, with a focus on fintech and infrastructure companies, modeled on the Acquired format.
Patrick and John Collison's Dublin-founded, San Francisco-headquartered online payments company — providing the payment infrastructure for a large share of internet commerce — notable for its developer-first culture and the quality of its API documentation.
Financial technology company in the Founders podcast ecosystem — likely providing investing or wealth management services.