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Global Payments generated $3 billion in annual software sales by 2023
“By the time I left and retired last summer in 20, 23, we were actually a top quartile software company by revenue in terms of cloud SaaS if we have been listed just, you know, in the public markets in the U S for cloud SaaS software at global payments. So clea…”
Companies must place diversified distribution bets and quickly scale the winners
“It was all part of the thesis of, hey, it's a mosaic of solutions. I don't really know What is going to be predominant, not just today, but five years from today. So it's important to have a lot of different bets in a lot of different areas, and if those are s…”
Global Payments regrets cutting UK technology investments following the Brexit vote
“And I think our business would have been better positioned, you know, have we not cut those technology investments.”
Global Payments grew its annual technology spending to over $2 billion
“So when I got to global payments, maybe we spent a couple, three hundred million a year, OpEx and CapEx in tech. When I left last year in 20, 23, you know, that number was north of two billion.”
Global Payments processed approximately $3 trillion in transaction volume in 2023
“So I think the company last year did something like transactions and probably process something like three trillion dollars plus or minus, you know, a volume.”