Terry Angelos: Internal Startups Need Separate Environments to Succeed
Terry Angelos · The Oral History of TrialPay -- Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments · May 4, 2018 · at 9:33
Terry Angelos, former co-founder of TrialPay and SVP at Visa, describes splitting TrialPay's teams into separate offices to incubate spin-off Yub.
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“The thinking there was the only way to really get a startup working is to have two separate environments. Right. And I think that was the right decision”
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