The payments industry is one of the most technically complex, competitively intense, and economically significant sectors in global business. Understanding it from the inside — as an operator building and running a payments company rather than as an analyst or investor observing it from the outside — gives Thomas Priore […]
The digitization of financial services is one of the defining business transformations of the past decade, and it is far from complete. Legacy systems, risk-averse cultures, and complex regulatory environments have slowed the pace of change at incumbent institutions even as client expectations have shifted dramatically. Burak Basel has built […]
Not many investment theses begin with a childhood Christmas memory. John Chachas’s does. Every year, his family made the journey from Ely, Nevada, to San Francisco for the holidays. Ely sits in a remote stretch of the Great Basin, roughly six hours from the Bay Area by the roads of […]