I Almost Made a Huge Mistake at the Pharmacy , Then One Number Changed Everything
t started with a scratchy throat on a Tuesday morning. You know the kind , the one that greets you before your alarm does, when you swallow and immediately regret it. By the time I’d shuffled to the mirror, I already knew: I was getting sick, and I needed medicine. So I dragged myself to…
The Payment Industry Has Accepted Too Much Pain as Normal
The more time I spend around payment infrastructure, the more I notice something that bothers me. A lot of pain in this industry has been accepted as normal. People accept that migrations will be stressful. People accept that support will need to escalate basic questions. People accept that settlement and reconciliation will sometimes become messy….
The Truth About First Movers: Why RapidCents Will Dominate Payments by 2036
People love the idea of the “first mover.” The story sounds simple: the company that gets there first wins. But history tells a very different story. When Google launched in 1998, search engines had already been around for years. Archie existed in 1990. Yahoo! launched in 1994. AltaVista and Lycos were already dominating the internet…
The Most Valuable Asset We Waste Without Noticing
I recently signed up for a boxing club. Boxing is a legacy sport for me , something I used to do from age 17 to 25. Back then, it gave me discipline, structure, confidence, and a sense of identity. Life got busy, I stepped away, and years passed. But now that I’m back… I can…
Mani Rahnama
