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Perret: Plaid fought a patent lawsuit for 2.5 years as an eight-person startup
“When we were an eight person company, we actually got sued for patent infringement on a handful of patents that under today's patent standards are not patents. So for example, passing financial data via an API. In that case all of Silicon Valley infringes on, …”
Zach Perret Dec 16, 2019 ▶ 8:15 Metacorn: How to Build a Platform that Fuels an Ecosystem with Plaid Co-Founder/CEO Zach Perret
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Perret: Plaid integrates with ~10k US/Canada banks and ~3k-4k fintech apps
“So in our back end, we've integrated with about 10,000 financial institutions in the U.S. And Canada which is substantially all our lawyers say that substantially all means almost everyone. And so about 10,000 in the U.S. And Canada and then about three to 400…”
Zach Perret Dec 16, 2019 ▶ 3:08 Metacorn: How to Build a Platform that Fuels an Ecosystem with Plaid Co-Founder/CEO Zach Perret
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Perret: Venmo was one of Plaid's first customers
“Venmo was one of our first customers. We do the connectivity between Venmo and the bank account.”
Zach Perret Dec 16, 2019 ▶ 1:31 Metacorn: How to Build a Platform that Fuels an Ecosystem with Plaid Co-Founder/CEO Zach Perret
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