Big Pivots, Bright Futures
This afternoon I had the absolute joy and honor of presiding over the graduation of our first Step it Up America class at Fiserv. For those not in the know, Step it Up America is a program that reaches out to Veterans and offers them a chance at pivoting from their current jobs and circumstances […]
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September 18th : The Credit Card is 61 years old today
On September 18th, 1958 the modern day credit card was born in Fresno, California. It would take the small California bank a few years to turn a profit with the gimmick, but it eventually did…and boy did it take off! Driving trillions of dollars of commerce across the globe. Andreesen Horowitz has a fun little […]
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Merchants Advisory Group Annual Meeting Redux
Earlier this morning I had the pleasure of hosting a panel on the technology architecture, software development, and infrastructure stacks required across the payment landscape of today’s regulatory and business demand. Fintech (in all of its flavors and varieties) of course is a hot topic and the attendance in the room was a good indicator […]
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Keynote Event: Merchant Advisory Group Tech Forum
I will be hosting the Keynote event at the Merchant Advisory Group Annual Conference in Scottsdale Sept 17-19, 2019.
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Spooky Action Issues Ahead for the Just-out-of-Reachables
I had an interesting conversation this week with a good friend of mine who works at one of the big Internet companies. We hadn’t talked in a good while so it turned out to be a wide ranging conversation that meandered back and forth from our mutual experiences building globally scaled technology platforms, past companies, […]
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