No pain — and lots of gain. In this week’s episode of The Matchmaker Is In, Payoneer CEO Scott Galit walked listeners through Payoneer’s decade-plus journey to move money across marketplaces without the pain that once defined how those suppliers were paid: paper checks and...
Consumers expect the ability to shop across channels and a seamless experience whether purchasing products online or in-store. But when it comes to utilizing promo codes or redeeming loyalty points, the lines between channels can be a bit harder to cross. Gregg Aamoth, CEO of...
Businesses that act as “matchmakers” are not exactly a new idea. The earliest marketplaces date back thousands of years. But in the mobile web age, businesses that act as matchmakers have gone turbocharged. Uber, Amazon, eBay, Airbnb, PayPal — the list goes on and on for...
SMBs typically have their pick of online platforms to help facilitate many business operations — from payments to HR, to tax and accounting. Rashmi Melgiri, COO and cofounder of CoverWallet, joined this week’s episode of The Matchmaker Is In series to explain how she and...
Property managers may have finally met their match — maker. Sean Heiney, founder and CEO of Rentr.com, tells Karen Webster and David Evans in this week’s The Matchmaker Is In how software platforms and digital payments are disrupting one of the most friction-filled interactions there...
People don’t talk about sending email cross-border, so why do we force them to talk about sending money that way? Jeremy Allaire, founder and CEO of Circle, joined Karen Webster and David Evans in this week’s The Matchmaker Is In to share how Circle is...
What can matchmakers learn from a college kid selling stuff on Amazon Marketplace from his dorm room? How to launch a profitable matchmaker from day one. Nate Hirsch, CEO at FreeeUp.com, joined Karen Webster and "Matchmakers" author David Evans in this week’s The Matchmaker Is...
There’s a pretty alarming epidemic that’s now afflicting many of the matchmakers lucky enough to solve matchmaker’s biggest problem: ignition and scale. Karen Webster says that Uber, Facebook, Android, even OpenTable and the payments networks and some innovators all suffer from that disease — the...
Here’s a friction — paying at the end of a meal in a restaurant. Flypay CEO Tom Weaver joined this week’s The Matchmaker Is In series to share how Flypay solved that friction and the important pivot it made that got it to the tipping...
