John Lunn, CEO and Founder of Gr4vy: $27 Million Raised to Build the Future of Payments Infrastructure

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In today's episode of Category Visionaries we speak with John Lunn , CEO and Founder of Gr4vy , a payment orchestration platform that's raised over $27 Million in funding. Topics Discussed: John’s background as a marine biologist who’s worked in payments for decades and helped start other companies, including PayPal John's most admired individuals, and sci-fi books that have influenced him Why payments are a problem area for online retailers, and how Gr4vy helps them manage payments with ease and flexibility The current payment landscape, and why trying to sell a payment system to a company’s payments team is the wrong move Why it’s important to pick VCs that you like as people, and why John would advise his past self to grow his company slower

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