WePay
company on 5 shows · 10 statements across 2 episodes · said 300 times in 43 episodes since 2017
20VC 276 
Top Founders 20 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 2 
No Priors 1 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2018 140 mentions in 18 episodes 8 per episode
- 1008 WePay CEO on $1b+ in Transaction Volume Helping Your Favorite Online Platforms Process Payments
- 20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- 20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One
- 20VC: Monzo's Tom Blomfield on The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, The Secret To Building a 1.2m Community with No Advertising & How To Use Boards As A Tool To Instil Operational Excellence
- 20VC: Why Warm Intros Are Mostly Dumb, Why Ownership is Built On First Check and 4 Crucial Elements To Make Cold Inbound Attractive with Leo Polovets, General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- 20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
- 20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- 20VC: How To Build Credibility with Investors, Employees and Customers, How To Determine When A Stretch VP is A Stretch Too Far and The Right Way For Founders To Think About Dilution with Amol Deshpande, Founder & CEO @ Farmers Business Network
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 155 mentions in 21 episodes 7 per episode
- 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital
- 20VC: Coinbase's Brian Armstrong on The Rise & Short Term Correction in ICOs, The Regulatory Framework Required For Blockchain To Succeed & How The Rise of Blockchain Disrupts The VC Industry
- 20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
- 20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
- 20VC: Why Not Every Element of A Scalable Business Has To Scale, Why You Should Be Bearish on Retail & Why Fewer Businesses Are Getting Started Today Since The Great Depression with Brad Hargreaves, Founder & CEO @ Common
- 20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
- 20VC: VC of The Year: Forerunner's Kirsten Green on 2 $Bn+ Exits in 1 Year, Why We Are In The Very Early Innings For Commerce & How Brand Has Fundamentally Changed Over The Last Decade
- 20VC: Why YC Is The Exact Opposite of Proprietary Deal Flow, Why Having No Follow On Dramatically Aligns Incentives & Why Founders Do Not Have To Be Passionate About Their Idea From The Start with Michael Ma, Founding Partner @ Liquid 2 Ventures
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
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10 statements about WePay, every show
Clerico: Card issuers take vast majority of 3% payment fees
“Actually, we make kind of a tiny fraction of that. The vast majority goes to your credit card company that issues your card as kind of sanctioned by Visa and MasterCard.”
Bill Clerico: Crypto has no killer app for small business software
“But I think what we found is that in this part of the market, there really hasn't been a killer application of those technologies yet.”
Clerico: WePay processed low single-digit billions in payment volume in 2016
“So 2016 definitely sort of low single digit billions as we were growing but, you know, and sort of doubling year over year.”
Clerico: Profitability beats revenue, and revenue beats user traction
“The best case scenario is to be profitable. Next best is generate revenue. You know, traction is sort of a nice number three.”
WePay pivoted from P2P after charging consumer fees stalled traction
“Yeah, it was really hard to get traction while we were charging fees. And so it was sort of like, anytime you have to choose between traction and, you know, and monetization, like there's, you need to cut some other strategy for how to monetize. And we figured…”
Bill Clerico pitched 40 Boston VCs before YC without raising funds
“I think I pitched four DVCs in Boston and, you know, didn't raise a dime.”
Clerico: Culture is the set of norms guiding unmonitored employee behavior
“What culture is, is it's the set of, kind of, norms and guidelines that guide people's behavior when no one's telling them what to do, and I think that, As a tool is incredibly powerful. You know, if as a leader, you can set a set of guidelines and values and …”
Clerico: Great companies require an opinionated culture with explicit stances
“I think great companies have an opinionated culture. It's not just sort of generic. There's specific stances that they take Terms of values, norms, behaviors that help dictate that common set of behavior.”
Clerico: CEOs Should Not Be the Sole Board Contact as Companies Scale
“I think it's also important to, as you grow as an entrepreneur, to not be the sole point of contact with your board. You know, you have a management team, you have a CFO. Making sure that you're bringing your team into those board meetings, helping your team d…”
Bill Clerico: WePay Will Expand Internationally and Into Lending and Insurance
“You know, we think that there's a huge opportunity in international expansion. That'll be a big priority for us. The other thing too is we think there's opportunity outside of peer payments. So today we pay as a payments company, but we think that over time th…”