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Sager: Fintech competitors that sacrificed precision for speed failed completely
“I think we've had competitors that sacrificed, you know, everything at the altar of speed and it didn't work out and it didn't, and not at all.”
Sager: Plaid CEO Zach Perret does IC-level work every day
“Zach is a wonderful example of like a founder who actually does that, right? Like he really still does like IC level work like every single day. And I think he expects that of his leadership team, and then we expect that of the kind of the rest of the team as …”
Sager: Plaid signed hundreds of AI firms including OpenAI, Perplexity, and Replit
“Now we've had, you know, hundreds of AI companies signing up and we just announced, you know, OpenAI, we announced Perplexity, we announced Replit.”
Sager: Large enterprises scale massively on Plaid entirely self-serve
“One of the things you see a lot of is you see even very big customers companies implement with Plaid and scale to massive use cases without ever having to talk to anybody.”
Sager: Fintech tools measurably improved consumer trading fees and average APRs
“And I think, like I said, there's a lot of really tangible things that And we can share, you can look up around like, okay, well, what's happened to overlimit fees? What's happened to trading fees? What happened to average APRs and so forth? Adjusted for obvio…”
Sager: Square leadership framed its IPO as merely another milestone
“I think I learned a lot there from my days at Square, where that's kind of how Sarah and Jack talked about the IPL. It wasn't the finish line. It was just another milestone amongst many milestones.”
Sager: Seven or eight Plaid ICs now run $100M businesses
“And we have so many people at Plaid, right. That like have internally kind of shot through the ranks that have gone from like IC roles to now running a hundred million dollar businesses. And so I could literally name seven or eight people on my team that have …”