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Fast Made Checkout One Click. The Business Took Many More.
Fast promised to spare shoppers another password, another form and another abandoned cart. The button worked; the company behind it could not make the numbers work.
Chase Ward Keeps Arriving Before the Furniture
The San Diego engineer built early at Calm, CloudKitchens and Tiptop. His résumé reads less like a ladder than a preference: arrive while the product is still a question, then help make the answer work.
The Checkout Counter Where Crypto Becomes Ordinary Money
BitPay spent 15 years making one volatile idea feel routine: a customer pays from a crypto wallet, while the merchant can wake up to ordinary money in the bank.
Global Payments Inc.
The Atlanta payments veteran has rebuilt itself around one job: making commerce work for merchants. After the Worldpay deal, its reach runs from a food-truck handheld to the checkout systems behind global enterprises.
Tazapay
Tazapay is a Singapore-based cross-border payment platform that lets businesses collect, hold, and pay out money in over 170 markets without setting up local entities. Founded in 2020 by three payments veterans, it combines a payment gateway, multi-currency global accounts, escrow, and same-day payouts on top of local payment rails, cards, and stablecoins - all wrapped in institutional-grade compliance. The company processes more than $10 billion in annualized payment volume, serves 1,000+ enterprises and fintechs, and has raised roughly $68 million to date, including a $36 million Series B whose extension was led by Circle Ventures.
Bob Donahue
Robert 'Bob' Donahue is a veteran technology and fintech executive who led Authorize.Net Holdings as President and CEO from 2004 to 2007, steering the company through its landmark $565 million acquisition by CyberSource Corporation - one of the defining deals in digital payments history. After joining CyberSource's board post-acquisition, he went on to serve as an independent director at NETSCOUT Systems and Sycamore Networks. With a career spanning senior executive roles at Manufacturers Services Ltd., Stratus Computer, and Celestica, Donahue has been a consistent presence at the intersection of technology infrastructure and financial services for over two decades.