PERSON DIRECTORY
Joe Wilson
Host of The Scale Lab. Joe Wilson appears in 1 indexed conversation across The Scale Lab. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
Episode #13: How Pieter van der Does made Adyen one of Europe’s largest fintech unicorns
Constantijn van OranjeJoe WilsonPieter van der Does
Adyen paired direct payment connections and proprietary technology with transparent pricing, aiming to make higher quality reinforce lower costs for enterprise merchants.Groupon/MyCityDeal’s cross-border volume helped strengthen Adyen’s position with partner banks, and the company reached breakeven in 2011, the year it took its first VC investment.Its patient expansion and financing choices preserved room to build for the long term; shareholder terms, hiring discipline, and small experiments remain central to how it manages growth.