Everything Terry Angelos said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Terry Angelos: Controlling Digital Currencies Will Be Irresistible to Nation States
“I mean, I think once a nation state discovers the superpowers of controlling a digital currency, that's going to be intoxicating.”
Terry Angelos: Internal Startups Need Separate Environments to Succeed
“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”
Terry Angelos: Successful Acquisitions Require Complete Autonomy or Total Integration
“Most acquisitions, Well, the ones that work, either work because you kind of leave them alone entirely, or you sort of fully absorb them”
Terry Angelos: Simplification Creates Defensibility in the Complex Payments Ecosystem
“The payments, The ecosystem is unbelievably complex, and sometimes defensibility is just simplifying it”
Terry Angelos: Payments Will Recede Into Background as Commerce Verticalizes
“So I think we're going to see a big race toward verticalized commerce. I think when you put together in the U S at least what Amazon's trying to do, Google's trying to do with echo and a few other things, you'll see payments just recede into the background.”
Terry Angelos: Consumers Remain Confused About Credit Card Benefits Despite Marketing
“One of my sort of takeaways from being at Visa is, for all the marketing that's spent, it's incredible how confusing or confused customers are as to what the benefits are on their card.”
H-1B Visa Deadline Forced Alex Rampell to Move Forward on TrialPay
“In those days, I think the Alex I knew would have procrastinated a lot more on starting the company, so I guess we have the H-I-V deadline To thank for, you know, deciding whether or not to move forward with a co-founder.”
TrialPay Introduced Three-Party Subsidized Payment Transactions
“Payments is usually a two-party transaction, and we were adding a third party into that transaction in a way that was beneficial for all three parties.”
TrialPay Generated Nearly 10% of Netflix Signups at Its Peak
“I think we're almost 10% of their signups at one point.”
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