
A grandfather’s jewelry business, a friendship forged in a Miami salsa club, and a lesson at ServiceTitan led Joseph Elias Phillips to co-found Payabli. His wager: help software companies handle the money already moving through their customers’ lives.

A college sales crew, a salsa-club friendship, and two decades spent untangling how businesses get paid. Inside the working life of Payabli co-founder William Corbera.