What PayPal Learned About AI Before AI Existed
PayPal nearly collapsed in 2000 — not because of bad technology, but because it trusted pure automation to fight intelligent adversaries. Twenty-six years later, FinTech operators are repeating the same mistake with LLMs. Here's what the Igor system still teaches us about AI, accountability, and the architecture that actually holds up.
Building the Bridge: Powering Payments for a Global, AI Native World
Lin Wang built Payinsider without funding, serving AI-native merchants who need Web2 payment expertise. In this Leadership Spotlight interview, she explains why payment orchestration is the bridge between legacy infrastructure and the agent economy — and why timing matters when merchants consider building in-house.
The Hardest Part of Modernizing Your Card System Isn't the Technology
Archer Zhang spent years running one of the world's largest IBM
mainframe-based card processing platforms. Now he's building the
system designed to replace it. In this conversation, he explains
why the hardest part of modernizing card infrastructure isn't the
technology — it's getting banks to unlearn thirty years of
institutional habit.
