Today's B2B technology opportunity matches the 1990s e-commerce boom
Jeff Sloan · Jeff Sloan (Global Payments): Placing Multiple Bets on ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ · Apr 30, 2024 · at 25:06
Jeff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, compares current growth potential in the B2B technology sector to the e-commerce expansion of the late 1990s.
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“My perspective is that investing in B to B technology today has the same growth opportunities, if not more so than investing in e-commerce did, you know, kind of at the end of the last century is kind of my view.”
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