Bill Clerico: Crypto has no killer app for small business software
Bill Clerico · 1008 WePay CEO on $1b+ in Transaction Volume Helping Your Favorite Online Platforms Process Payments · Apr 28, 2018 · at 4:53
Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay, explains why small business software platforms have not broadly adopted blockchain or cryptocurrency payments.
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“But I think what we found is that in this part of the market, there really hasn't been a killer application of those technologies yet.”
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