Senkut: Google and Facebook struggled with global payment complexity for a decade
Aydin Senkut · How to build a $18B+ success story far far away from Silicon Valley with Adyen · Jun 19, 2019 · at 3:38
Felicis Ventures founder Aydin Senkut discusses the hidden technical complexities of international payments with Adyen CCO Roelant Prins.
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“But then I found out that even companies like Google and Facebook were having challenges, 1015 years after their founding in certain countries in the world, dealing with complexity.”
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