How Did You Find Your Passion for Payments?

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The founder and CEO of Stripe talks about what he likes to do. He says soccer was his first love when he was five years old. His current role is leading growth at the company, which includes product strategy for new apps. "I'm going to name soccer as my top personal."

Today we speak with Jareau Wadé - currently the founder of Batch Processing, previously the co-founder of Balanced (acquired by Stripe), head of growth at Tilt Pro (acquired by Airbnb), and Chief Growth Officer at Finix.

We spoke with Jareau about the early days of Balanced - how they prioritized, gained trust with initial customers, and competed with companies like Stripe and PayPal. Jareau talks through a bunch of different heuristics and models he uses to evaluate risk (stack it early), tackle the cold start problem, synthesize feedback, figure out the technical side of your business early on, and manage the mental side of starting a business.

It's an awesome conversation and you'll take tactics and methods away from it.