He spent years connecting accounting systems, then built Codat to spare other people the job. Peter Lord’s next challenge is helping banks make sense of the numbers once they arrive.
Fintech paid the bills. Scott Riley saw what the bills could tell him - and found students who could help. His next investment was in the people coming after him.
A 1988 recovery-audit shop now watches the supplier records behind more than $10 trillion in annual spend. Its real product is not a dashboard - it is the moment a company stops trusting bad data by default.