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Otto Hanson and the fine print everyone keeps paying to read
A startup operator went to law school, spotted the same contracts crossing too many desks, and began asking who really needed to read them again. From TermScout to Agiloft Astra, Otto Hanson has been working on the answer.
Gil Akos
Gil Akos is the co-founder and CEO of Astra, a payments infrastructure company that lets developers move money bank-to-bank in real time. Trained as an architect with graduate work at Columbia, he taught himself programming, then earned a stack of Udacity nanodegrees in machine learning and AI to build the company he imagined. Under his leadership Astra crossed $1 billion in lifetime payments processed and pushed past a $2 billion annualized run rate, positioning the company as connective tissue for instant payouts across vertical SaaS, marketplaces, and earned wage access.