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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.

competitionpayments— Earnings Call, 2021
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We built Adyen because payments were broken. Every country had different systems, different rules, different failures. We said: one platform, everywhere.

entrepreneurshipglobal— Financial Times Interview, 2018
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We don't do acquisitions. We build everything ourselves. That's slower, but it means everything actually works together.

engineeringproduct— Bloomberg Interview, 2019
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The best payments experience is the one you don't notice. If you're thinking about the payment, something went wrong.

paymentsproduct— Money 20/20 Conference, 2017
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We were profitable before we went public. That wasn't an accident. We don't believe in growing at all costs.

disciplinegrowth— CNBC Interview, 2018
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We named the company Adyen. It means "start over again" in Surinamese. We wanted to rebuild payments from scratch, not patch the old system.

missionorigin— Dutch Business Magazine Interview, 2015