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PIETER VAN DER DOES

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Payments is not a winner-take-all market. But it is a market where the best technology wins the best merchants.

competitionpaymentsEarnings Call, 2021

We built Adyen because payments were broken. Every country had different systems, different rules, different failures. We said: one platform, everywhere.

entrepreneurshipglobalFinancial Times Interview, 2018

We don't do acquisitions. We build everything ourselves. That's slower, but it means everything actually works together.

engineeringproductBloomberg Interview, 2019

The best payments experience is the one you don't notice. If you're thinking about the payment, something went wrong.

paymentsproductMoney 20/20 Conference, 2017

We were profitable before we went public. That wasn't an accident. We don't believe in growing at all costs.

disciplinegrowthCNBC Interview, 2018

We named the company Adyen. It means "start over again" in Surinamese. We wanted to rebuild payments from scratch, not patch the old system.

missionoriginDutch Business Magazine Interview, 2015