Building Payrails: A Founder's Emotional Rollercoaster
Retail ReMix Stories by Retail Re:Mix
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In payments, there's no such thing as "we sold 90% and we are fine." So why do most enterprises still treat it that way?
In this episode of Retail Re:Mix Stories, Dharmendra sits down with Emre Talay, co-founder and COO of Payrails, the modular payment infrastructure platform backed by Andreessen Horowitz and HV Capital. Emre has spent 15 years in payments, from building payment acceptance from scratch as a product manager in 2010, to running BKM, Turkey's local MasterCard switch system, to overseeing fintech across 70 countries at Delivery Hero, before co-founding Payrails four and a half years ago.
This conversation gets into all of it. Why "accepting payments" and "payments working" are two completely different things. The real P&L cost of ignoring payment orchestration, and why the number most CFOs see is never the full pictur ...