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Gary Yang shared thisA lot happens behind the scenes to make something as simple as paying in a store or restaurant feel effortless. And when businesses are opening new locations, adding channels, or introducing new ways to pay, that complexity can add up quickly. Adyen's new Total Economic Impact study, conducted by Forrester Consulting, helps put some numbers behind that. The modeled organization saw 80% less developer effort when launching a new location, channel, or payment method, while interviewees shared that new merchant accounts could go live in hours instead of a week. That’s ultimately what we want payments infrastructure to do: make it easier to grow without adding more complexity along the way. There’s much more in the full study: https://bit.ly/3VnFu1I #Retail #Restaurants #UnifiedCommerce
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Gary Yang shared thisExcited to share our work with Apple to bring Apple Pay to India!Gary Yang shared thisApple Pay for India is now available with Adyen! Apple Pay simplifies checkout, boosts conversion rates and user adoption. Consumers can speed through checkout online and in apps, while merchants increase sales. At Adyen, we've supported Apple Pay for enterprise businesses globally since 2014. Indian businesses like MakeMyTrip, Lenskart.com and Zee 5 Global already use Adyen to process Apple Pay payments outside of India for their international customers. Now, businesses in India can offer Apple Pay to Indian consumers locally as well, making the payment experience faster, more secure, and seamless. Why it matters: ✅ Frictionless Online Checkout - consumers can pay in seconds. No lengthy forms to fill out manually or OTP needed. ✅ Designed to be secure - transactions require biometric authentication, like Face ID or Touch ID Businesses already using Apple Pay with Adyen in other markets can easily enable it in India using the same integration, through Adyen’s single global platform. Whether you're accepting payments on iOS or web, we're ready to support Apple Pay from day one. Integrating Apple Pay with Adyen for the first time? Get started here: https://lnkd.in/erfaefwE #ApplePay #Apple #Adyen #DigitalPayments #IndiaApple Pay payment method for fast secure checkout - AdyenApple Pay payment method for fast secure checkout - Adyen
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Gary Yang shared thisAdyen Uplift’s Authenticate got the upgrade that will give businesses the benefits of the latest authentication technologies, without any heavy lifting. Static authentication rules can't keep up with modern ecommerce. Authenticate is built to take the full context of each transaction into account: the transaction, shopper, issuer, market, regulatory requirements, and available authentication technologies. AI then chooses the best way to establish trust and improve the probability of a successful payment. Authenticate helps businesses navigate complexity and make more informed authentication decisions, without being tied to a single protocol or technology. Read more. https://bit.ly/4xN9phuAdyen launches first-to-market upgrade to AuthenticateAdyen launches first-to-market upgrade to Authenticate
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Gary Yang shared thisHappy Mid-Autumn Festival to our customers and partners! On a personal note, I'm impressed by the wide innovation in the mooncake industry. My children aren't really sold on durian mooncakes though, even if they have snowskin.Gary Yang shared thisStrong connections make every milestone sweeter. 🥮 This Mid-Autumn Festival, we’re taking a moment to celebrate the incredible merchants and partners we work with globally. Thank you for your continued trust and collaboration. Wishing you, your family, and your team a joyful, sweet, and prosperous Mid-Autumn Festival! 来自商户和合作伙伴的深厚信任，让我们并肩收获的每一个里程碑都如中秋月般圆满 🥮 值此佳节，我们由衷感恩与Adyen每一位商户与合作伙伴携手共进的契机。感谢大家长久以来的信任与一路同行！ 祝愿您和您的家人，以及您的团队：中秋快乐，阖家幸福安康，未来再创辉煌！
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Gary Yang shared thisSee you at Global Fintech Fest 2026! 🇮🇳 India is one of our most dynamic and critical growth markets in APAC, and I’m thrilled to be on the ground connecting with fintech leaders, partners, and visionary merchants across the region. At GFF, I'll be sharing how payments are evolving from simple transaction acceptance into intelligent commerce infrastructure, the benefits of Unified Commerce, the power of our Single Platform, and how to fuel cross border expansion. Looking forward to the inspiring conversations, bold ideas, and shaping the future of global commerce together!
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Gary Yang shared this“Travel doesn't end at booking.” After a trip gets booked, finance teams still have to reconcile receipts, enforce spend policies, and track transactions across regions. It can quickly turn into an admin nightmare. Hearing Navan's Yuval Refua share how embedding Adyen Issuing helped them create better experiences for both travelers and finance teams was a great reminder of why this work matters. Thanks for the partnership Yuval and team! Learn more about their journey: https://bit.ly/4hAxkw5Beyond the booking: Navan scales global card issuingBeyond the booking: Navan scales global card issuing
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Gary Yang shared thisWe’ve expanded our global partnership with Toast into the U.S. Since 2021, we have partnered with Toast across Canada, the U.K., Ireland, and Australia to deliver reliable financial technology for hospitality and retail operators. Now, we’re bringing Adyen’s unified platform to Toast's U.S. payments ecosystem, enabling faster settlement, operational control, and seamless payments at scale. In service-driven industries, technology should move at the speed of hospitality. By unifying payments on a single global infrastructure, we’re helping Toast empower businesses to optimize back-of-house operations, scale effortlessly, and deliver for their guests when every second counts. Thank you Michel Rbeiz, Molly (Stumbras) Donaher, Mary Allen Saunders, Eli Brill, and the rest of the broader Toast team for the global partnership and co-creating together! Read the full announcement here: https://bit.ly/3SlhhrF
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Gary Yang shared thisGetting the same experience wherever you shop is something most of us expect, but delivering that consistently around the world is a much bigger challenge. On is approaching global growth by keeping the checkout experience consistent across markets. The results speak for themselves: more than 71,000 additional successful transactions in a single year. A great example of how the right payments strategy together with the right partner can support both customer experience and business growth. https://bit.ly/4vUf2crGary Yang shared thisA customer in Tokyo shouldn't have a different checkout experience than one in Toronto. As On expanded globally, delivering that same brand experience at every touchpoint, including the checkout, became increasingly important. Customers expect to pay using the methods they know and trust, whether they're shopping online or in-store. Meeting those expectations helped drive more than 71,000 additional successful transactions in a single year. Take a closer look at how On approached global growth without losing the consistency customers expect. https://bit.ly/4vVtYXS
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Gary Yang shared thisOur Adyen World Cup payments recap landing page is now live. What makes this interesting is how much of it is the stories payments data can tell, and how that data gets translated into something meaningful beyond dashboards. Throughout the tournament, we processed and analyzed real-time transaction patterns across markets. It’s a good example of how payments infrastructure can do more than enable transactions, it can act as a lens into global behavior. When you combine that with the right storytelling layer, you move from reporting data to explaining what’s happening in the world, in real time. Business can then use this to refine how they react to customer demands, to grow their business. https://bit.ly/4x9n2rh
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Gary Yang liked thisWhat a joy and honor to have received the 2026 Venture Capital Lifetime Achievement Award🤩 💥. The recognition and validation from my peers in African VC mean a lot. The award belongs as much to our team at TLCOM as it does to me. Thirteen years ago, we set out to build something that did not yet exist: an African venture capital ecosystem. We have made mistakes and learned a great deal along the way, and today we see a growing, compounding ecosystem with stronger founders, more sophisticated investors, better infrastructure, corporates working with startups as partners and regulators making room. While the day-to-day swings up and down, zoom out and the graph is moving up and to the right. Here is an excerpt from my speech on why our work matters: "Our work remains relevant and urgent. A 2025 World Bank paper found that 95% of African businesses have no employees at all, just a solo entrepreneur. Only 0.05% employ more than 100 people. No region has lifted its people out of poverty without a thriving, diversified, locally rooted private sector. Participating in building that ecosystem is the heart of our mission. Right now, technology is reshaping access, Africa's youth are resetting the status quo, and geopolitics is redrawing global trade. This is our moment to ensure the reset is fair and brings prosperity to Africa." A huge thank you to all our investors, who have supported us along the way. A special thanks to the European Investment Bank (EIB), DEG Impact and the European Commission for your continued collaboration through the Boost Africa Technical Assistance Facility. I am really excited for what lies ahead for African VC! #AfricaVC #AfricaTech #AVFP
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Gary Yang liked thisI am thrilled to announce that I have joined Paramount as SVP of AI Product! I can't wait to work with the team and help build great experiences with some of the most iconic names in entertainment. We'll continue to grow the team, so stay tuned for opportunities!Gary Yang liked thisExcited to welcome Pablo Paniagua to our Consumer AI team at Paramount as SVP, AI Product! Pablo brings deep consumer and AI product leadership experience from YouTube and previously served as Chief Product Officer at Quizlet. He joins us to lead AI Product as we continue to invest in AI and build the next generation of consumer experiences at Paramount. I’m incredibly excited to have Pablo on board and about what we’ll build together. Welcome to Paramount, Pablo! And as I mentioned when I joined Paramount, we’re continuing to grow our talented AI team and build world-class AI capabilities. If you’re interested in connecting or catching up, feel free to reach out.
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Gary Yang liked thisGary Yang liked thisHow does the future of online merchant commerce look for digital payment companies? Agentic commerce, quick-checkout solutions, value-added services like embedded finance and more. Had a wide ranging discussion on all these issues with my fellow panelists Gary Yang of Adyen , Anuj Khosla of Hitachi Payment Services Pvt. Ltd. , Sudhir Sehgal of Paytm and Amir Valliani of PayPal at the recently concluded GFF 2026. Some key takeaways: 1. Agentic commerce is the future but currently is a small sub-set of the largerb ecommerce payments world. 2. Fraud detection will emerge as the new frontier of development as companies scale up their AI-led deployments, a major area of opportunities and concern for the industry. 3. Value-added services built deep into the payments journey of the consumer will help broaden revenue generation for PAs. My personal takeaways from this experience: Learnt about important industry insights from my fellow panel members. Got a glimpse into how Adyen is looking at India. Discussed AI in jobs and tech with all the panel members. Also learnt a lot about the Singapore tech ecosystem from my fellow panel members from that part of the world. #GlobalFintechFest 2026 #GFF #GFF2026 #IAmSpeaking #FintechLeadership National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI) Fintech Convergence Council Payments Council of India
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Gary Yang liked thisGary Yang liked this"Bet on yourself." That was the key takeaway from the conversation Ilana Stern and I had with a group of students at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business this week. But first, you have to make yourself worth betting on. That starts with investing in yourself and building real skills, relationships and credibility, so that when you do place the bet, it pays off. Together, we talked through what that looks like over a career: → Taking a job that stretches you so much it's scary → Founding a company → Backing early-stage founders → Putting your professional reputation on the line for a big swing that could define your career I was surprised by the turnout. Nearly 200 MBAs came out on a Monday night for a talk on entrepreneurship and marketing. That says a lot about what Ilana and her partners at Salt VC have built. It also says a lot about this class, which has the hunger and curiosity it takes to make winning bets. Marketing hasn't always been a central focus at the GSB, but go-to-market has never mattered more. With AI democratizing the means to build technology, the skills to understand market-based needs, drive adoption, and develop loyal customers become core differentiators. The next generation of builders sees that, and they're already investing in themselves.
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Gary Yang liked thisGary Yang liked thisA very overdue update, but after 6 years and 9 months, I’ve left Amazon for a new chapter with Adyen! My time at Amazon has been “濃い” to say the least (no perfect English translation, but let’s just say A LOT happened haha). So many “firsts”, challenges, learnings, and friendships that I know will last a lifetime (you know who you are!) From my first time living and working in Japan, to entering into payments, becoming a PdM, hiring and building my own team from scratch, and figuring out how to lead…. there was never a shortage of new things to learn. On the personal front, I also returned to work as a mom, navigating 保育園の洗礼 and pure survival mode 😂 Looking back on my time at Amazon, I learned what it means to be truly “customer obsessed”, dive deep (then dive deeper and some more), and insist on the highest standards - all while writing A LOT of docs, debating mental models and tenets, and somehow turning the smallest details into very serious discussions. And somewhere along the way, I learned that even the most well-written six-pager can’t solve everything without great people around you. A HUGE thank you to the my managers who took a chance on me, trusted me, and gave me room to grow: Drew Hatton, Neal Rothfuss, Brynn Hoover, Jonathan Gen Nagao, Megan Bramlette. I wouldn’t be where I am today without you. To the many mentors I turned to (often at random hours 🙃), thank you for giving me the advice I needed to hear. And to my teams in Japan and around the world- thank you for making even the toughest challenges fun! So, what’s next? I’ve joined Adyen as Head of Account Management in Japan. I’ve known Adyen since my early days at Amazon, so it’s exciting to be on the other side and start a new chapter in an industry I love. Still getting settled in, but already feeling very welcomed by amazing team members! Onto the next 🚀
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Gary Yang liked thisGary Yang liked thisLife gets busy. But every so often, a moment makes you stop and think, "Wow, this is big." My heart is full after a Times Square billboard moment with my mom, alongside a group of incredible women featured in Iconic Women by Priya Nallathambi, a series celebrating women's stories of courage, reinvention, and legacy at every age. My mom built her career as a dentist in India, raising her daughters with limited time but never a shortage of presence. Today she practices Reiki in Boston, still driven by the same commitment to helping others. She taught me that family and ambition don't have to be a tradeoff. It's a choice you make every day: hold your boundaries, and be fully present for the moments that matter. Reading the other women's stories made me hopeful about what's ahead. These trailblazers are clearing the path for others. I had my mom to show me the way. My kids will grow up with even more inspiring women in the workplace to learn from. #DreamingBig Thank you, Priya, for creating such special memories, including with my dear friend Octavia M., who was in town from Australia and lit up the billboard alongside us on her very first visit to Times Square. PS: Yes, it's really us, crowded and noisy Times Square and all. Pics by my proud dad, who is iconic himself. Unforgettable moment.
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Gary Yang liked thisGary Yang liked thisMy team is hiring a Business Development Manager for our work across Payments & FinTech. This is a senior IC role. We need someone to help drive strategic deals that enable money movement across the platform: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Reality Labs, Meta Business Agent, Muse, and whatever comes next. All Meta surfaces, all around the world. This person will work across the core ads business, payments & checkout flows, creator experiences, Marketplace, financial services, and more — partnering with networks, banks, issuers, acquirers, wallets, PSPs, and all types of FinTechs to run cross-functional deals. We're looking for someone with 10+ years experience closing complex, multi-stakeholder deals in payments/fintech, deep industry relationships, comfortable with executives and engineers alike. Based in Menlo Park, New York, or San Francisco. If you know someone great, please send them my way — or encourage them to apply directly. Thanks! Job posting link in the first comment.
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Gary Yang liked thisGary Yang liked this“The last decade of UPI has been a massive success, there is nothing like it anywhere in the world.” Roelant Prins, CCO - Adyen on UPI’s remarkable journey, the power of public-private partnerships, and how India’s digital payments story is setting an example for the world. Adyen | Roelant Prins #UPI #Adyen #DigitalPayments #Fintech #India #TheFintechSpotlight
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Today we announced that Grab has signed an agreement to acquire Delivery Hero's foodpanda delivery business in Taiwan for $600 million in cash. This is a milestone moment for Grab — Taiwan will be our 9th market and our first outside of Southeast Asia. From a financial standpoint, this transaction checks every box we look for from a capital allocation standpoint: • We're acquiring a leading food delivery player — foodpanda generated $1.8B in GMV across 21 cities in 2025 and is profitable on an adjusted EBITDA basis • At 0.33x EV/GMV, we believe the valuation is highly attractive for an asset of this quality • The deal is accretive to our 2026 revenue guidance, and we're reiterating our Adjusted EBITDA guidance of $700-720M • We expect at least $60M of incremental Adjusted EBITDA contribution by 2028, accretive to our 3-year outlook of $1.5B Taiwan is a structurally compelling market — high urban density, strong consumer spending power, and a booming digital economy driven by the AI and semiconductor wave. Per capita GDP has surpassed both Japan and South Korea for the first time in over two decades. We see enormous runway here. I'm incredibly proud of the team that worked tirelessly to bring this deal together — from Corporate Development, IR, Legal, Finance, Tax, to our business and product teams. And I can't wait to welcome the foodpanda Taiwan team into the Grab family — they've built something truly impressive, and we're excited to build on that foundation together. More details in our press release and investor presentation at investors.grab.com. We'll be hosting a conference call today at 8:00pm SGT to discuss the transaction. #Grab #foodpanda #Taiwan #Deliveries #DrivingSoutheastAsiaForward
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Zachary Schwartzman
These results are misleading; Israelis create the highest unicorns per national, and it’s not even close. If you EXCLUDE Israeli founded unicorns incorporated in the US and INCLUDE them in your Israeli figures, the results are much higher. This is because Israeli unicorn founders incorporate at a rate of >2:1 in the US. I published this analysis here: https://lnkd.in/d9u6ACa9
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Omar Elayat
I'll never forget walking into Hungryroot's NYC office in 2017 to meet Ben McKean, a few months after they closed a Series A. He told me Hungryroot was going to stop taking customer orders. Revenue would go to zero for six months. The business was growing and doing about $1 million a month. Customers loved our products. But Ben concluded the business wouldn't scale and, more importantly, he saw a bigger opportunity: turning a product company into an AI-powered grocery service. Whether that makes Hungryroot a “VC graveyard” story is debatable. What I’ll never forget is Ben’s conviction despite the enormous risk: Six months with no revenue and a completely new direction. Hungryroot relaunched in late 2017. It was obvious within a few weeks that the new model would work. Last year, the company generated more than $700 million in revenue—and was profitable. Not every success follows a straight line. Worth remembering in a 2026 venture market that increasingly treats anything short of immediate success as failure.
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