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We never raised venture capital. We were profitable from year one. In fintech, that makes us a unicorn and an alien.
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Adyen means "start over again" in Surinamese. We rebuilt payments from scratch because the existing infrastructure was broken beyond repair.
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We don't have a sales team. If your product is good enough, customers come to you. If you need a sales team, your product isn't good enough.
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Processing $900 billion annually for Netflix, Uber, and Spotify proves one thing: infrastructure wins. Always.
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The Dutch have been building payment systems since the 17th century. Adyen is just the latest chapter in a very old story.