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Hamed Abbasi and the customers who stayed
He left banking for video games, then built Plooto by changing his mind. The revealing moment came when a new monthly fee gave customers a reason to leave - and most stayed.
Greg Wilfahrt Has Spent Two Decades Asking Payments to Behave
Before the smartphone became a wallet, Greg Wilfahrt was trying to make phones carry music, messages and money. His later work at AP Technology has kept the ambition but added a durable condition: speed is useful only when trust travels with it.
Riley Lovingood Has Built a Career Around the Snap
The former Tennessee long snapper now runs PAYRA, a Nashville fintech built for businesses that cannot pause to replace the systems keeping their money moving.
Claire Wilson Saw the Payment Problem Hiding Inside the Skyline
The civil engineer who once managed pieces of Hudson Yards now runs Siteline, turning the paperwork behind commercial construction into a clearer path to getting paid.
Ofer Feldman
Ofer Feldman is the Co-Founder and CTO of Stampli, a Mountain View-based AI-powered accounts payable automation company he co-founded with his brother Eyal Feldman in 2015. A computer engineer by training from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Ofer spent over a decade building software across defense, enterprise, and healthcare sectors before channeling that depth into Stampli. Under his technical leadership, Stampli has grown to process over $100 billion in invoices annually for 1,600+ businesses, raised $145.7 million in total funding including a $61M Series D led by Blackstone in 2023, and pioneered Cognitive AI that brings human-level PO matching to finance teams worldwide.