Going deep on Payments with Mostly Borrowed Ideas (MBI): Adyen, PayPal, Stripe, Square, Amazon, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Visa, Mastercard!

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📃 Full transcript

• Full transcript of this podcast with MBI about payments

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I really enjoyed this conversation about the payments space and I hope you will too!

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If you want to dig deeper, here are a bunch of useful links:

🔥 MBI’s payments deep dives:

• Shopify (there’s a big payment component)

• Square (aka Block)

• Adyen

• PayPal

🔥 David Kim’s payments deep dives at Scuttleblurb:

• Visa/Mastercard (part 1 of 3)

• Payments series (covering: FISV, GPN, FIS, SQ, Stripe, Adyen, part 1 of 4)

• Some thoughts on Fiserv / First Data (FISV)

• Square & PayPal (part 1 of 2)

• Square and PayPal: Comparing Business Models and Strategies

Also make sure to check out the two interviews I did with David (he’s great):

• Interview #1 with David Kim a.k.a. Scuttleblurb

• Interview #2 with David Kim a.k.a. Scuttleblurb (2022 Edition)

🎧 Jimmy Soni podcast interview on his PayPal book:

• Podcast #6: Jimmy Soni on the PayPal Mafia (Musk, Thiel, Levchin, etc), startups, tech, the research process, and much more

🎧 Previous podcast with MBI on Constellation Software:

• Going deep on Constellation Software with Mostly Borrowed Ideas (MBI)

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