Talley: Phone-number payments are proven safer than plastic cards
Larry Talley · 3 Phases: Get People, Product, and Profit Right at Each Growth Stage · May 11, 2023 · at 10:20
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Larry Talley, founder of Everywhere, compares the security of phone number-based payment authentication to traditional credit cards.
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“We proved that it's actually much safer to do a transaction through us with a phone number than it is with a piece of plastic.”
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