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Software-led payments: What’s on the horizon for platforms in 2025? | Episode 46

Payrix

In this episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments Podcast, host Ian Hillis welcomes Matt Downs, President of Worldpay for Platforms, to discuss software-led payments predictions for 2025 and beyond. However, he cautioned that regulatory trends often swing back, urging businesses to focus on sustainable strategies.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Instructure at $620,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

It was founded in 2008 but took a while to get going, hitting $1m in revenue in 2011 selling to Utah schools — and then scaled from there. That’s the power of compounding revenue in SaaS! Even with Slowing Growth, Will Hit $1B ARR by 2028 The power of recurring revenue and NRR > 100%. It took on $1.7

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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Six Lessons on How to Build a Platform that Fuels an Ecosystem with Plaid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Enter the platform company. Or if you’ve ever gotten a 2 cent and a 4 cent deposit into your account as you’re trying to set up direct deposit or payments transfers, that’s a pre-Plaid world. Zach : So in our back end, we’ve integrated with about 10,000 financial institutions in the U.S. Zach : About 260.

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky. How do we make them feel part of the team and integrate them? So a lot of lessons that can be taken from there as well.

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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale. And you start being able to acquire more of them in a scalable way i.e. an acquisition loop. In fact, they complain more, because they like the product enough to care.

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The Marketer’s Guide to Gain Brand Mileage on Google Maps

Neil Patel

While there are local guide Android app platforms released, in this article, I’ll particularly focus on Google Maps marketing paying attention to the mapping app in an iPhone and iPad as well as any Android device. After making a series of company acquisitions, Google started its desktop web mapping service in 2005. So far, so good.