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Perret: Plaid will build tools for consumer AI data linking
“Our job as it relates to AI is like, let's build tools that allow consumers safely to link their data with agents. Then let's build tools that allow those agents to take the proper actions, be that just analyzing data or be that actually moving money or someth…”
Perret: Venmo became Plaid's first major customer at 15 bank connections
“Once we got to about 15 or so connections, we then started having very serious conversations with Venmo. And that was the first kind of big customer that ended up really scaling with us.”
Perret: Plaid published API docs online when competitors did not
“In the early phases that was doing something that was slightly different, which is publishing our docs online, which our competitors didn't do, which seems commonplace now, and also giving an online signup page for someone to come in, to come and use the produ…”
Strange: Plaid replaces hundreds of custom bank integrations with a single API
“But now, there's a company like Plaid that provides all of that as a service. Instead of hundreds of integrations, I now just have one. Plaid builds the integrations, it maintains the integrations, and importantly, it translates the data into a usable format.”