Matan Bar, CEO/Co-Founder of Melio – Always Remember to Keep The Main Thing, The Main Thing

Miguel Armaza sits down with Matan Bar, CEO & Co-Founder of Melio, a B2B payments platform for small businesses. The company has raised over $500 million from a who’s who of fintech investors, including Accel, Coatue, Bessemer, General Catalyst, Thrive, Tiger Global, and more.<br/><br/>In this episode, we discuss:Understanding your customer. Prior to writing a single line of code, the Melio team setup an old-school bookkeeping business in Manhattan to truly understand the challenges of their future clients. What did they learn?Importance of velocity to launch products and being comfortable with making mistakes (but correcting them very quickly!).Matan used to lead peer-to-peer payments at Paypal, but then built a business-to-business payments company. What led him down this path?Why his biggest mistake was optimizing new hires for skills and not for culture… and a lot more!Want more podcast episodes? Join me and follow Fintech Leaders today on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app for weekly conversations with today’s global leaders that will dominate the 21st century in fintech, business, and beyond.<br/><br/>Do you prefer a written summary, instead? Check out the Fintech Leaders newsletter and join 47,000+ readers and listeners around the world!<br/><br/>Miguel Armaza is Co-Founder & Managing General Partner of Gilgamesh Ventures, a seed-stage investment fund focused on fintech in the Americas. He also hosts and writes the Fintech Leaders podcast and newsletter.<br/><br/>Miguel on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3nKha4Z<br/><br/>Miguel on Twitter: https://bit.ly/2Jb5oBc<br/><br/>Fintech Leaders Newsletter: bit.ly/3jWIpqp