Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Tracy Metzger, COO of Vesta (Part 2)

Tracy Metzger: Whether it’s mobile carriers when they’re doing prepaid businesses where credit card acceptance immediately fulfills minutes to a phone, or digital goods companies like e-ticketing, or software downloads,  all these things have an after-market value. Those companies spend anywhere from 14% to 20% of their total SGNA on managing fraud. It’s a huge

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Building a Venture-Scale MarTech Company in Silicon Valley: Chaitanya Chandrasekhar, CEO of QuanticMind (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: When you started the company, that was 2011? Chaitanya Chandrasekhar: 2012. Sramana Mitra: How did you get it off the ground? What did you start with? Chaitanya Chandrasekhar: Very early on, we made sure we had the right people. You can’t build everything yourself. I was getting my co-founders in place. The three

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Tracy Metzger, COO of Vesta (Part 1)

There is a lot of fraud in online payments. This discussion explores the field, and Tracy also provides a pointer to a great open problem that an entrepreneur can look into. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing you and Vesta to our audience. Tracy Metzger: I’m the COO of Vesta. I’m a 25-year veteran of

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Building a Venture-Scale MarTech Company in Silicon Valley: Chaitanya Chandrasekhar, CEO of QuanticMind (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What form did it take? What tools did you build? What did you enable customers to do that they couldn’t do before? Chaitanya Chandrasekhar: We talked about search engines. We talked about social. The problem with all of this is that data is siloed. The marketing teams don’t have one dashboard to control

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