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Mike Gionfriddo reposted thisMike Gionfriddo reposted thisYou don’t need a team of 40. You need 2-3 killers who take it personally. Not people who clock in. Not people who wait to be told. Not people who ask, “Is this in scope?” You need the ones who treat your roadmap like a mission brief. Who move like owners. Who hate losing more than they love comfort. We’re 5 people at EasyAudit. Plus 14 AI agents. And we move faster than a team of 30. We don’t have middle managers. We don’t need meetings to talk about meetings. We build. Fast. Flat. Relentless. I’ve seen startups with $8M in funding and 20 employees who still can’t ship a settings page without a PM, designer, copywriter, and an async sprint planning session. That’s not a company. That’s a delay machine. Here’s the truth nobody says out loud: A tight crew that gives ACTUALLY CARES will run circles around a bloated team with a shared Notion doc and a 'Head of Enablement'. Lean isn’t a phase. It’s an advantage. We don’t scale for vanity. We scale for output. We hire slowly. And only for people who take it personally. Because when everyone on the team feels like they’re on the hook, you don’t need 10 people to do the job. You just need the right ones. If you’ve got one of those killer teammates — someone who treats your mission like their own, tag them. They deserve the recognition.
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Mike Gionfriddo reposted thisMike Gionfriddo reposted thisSince PDF's support a decent subset of JavaScript, and since Javascript can be used as a target for LLVM C/C++ compilers, here's a full Linux distro running inside a PDF file: https://lnkd.in/ezJc_pJF Scary security scenario...
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Mike Gionfriddo shared thisThis captures the essence of Sunil. He is humble and insightful, and it is an honor to be on this journey with himMike Gionfriddo shared this🎙️ Excited to share our latest episode of the FinWise EYE ON: podcast! Join Sarah Grotta, as she chats with Sunil Singh, the founder and CEO of Tallied! Sunil talks about his journey, starting a company, and his vision for the future of credit card infrastructure. This is a must-listen for anyone navigating the financial services industry. Catch our discussion and see how Tallied is transforming challenges into opportunities. 📈🎧 #fintech #FintechRevolution #Leadership https://hubs.li/Q035dfkY0
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Mike Gionfriddo reposted thisIn 30 seconds, this VIDEO explains a private RAG application... The App is so simple a 12 year old can use it. The App can run secretly, offline, using a small language model (SLM) on an AI PC powered with an affordable Intel Corporation chipset. #AI #LLM Iterate.ai Mike Edwards Peter Cobb Matthew A. Kaness Ashish Shah Sapna Shah George Eberstadt Magnus Tagtstrom Brian Sathianathan Malhar ThakkarMike Gionfriddo reposted thisCheck out Generate from Iterate.ai! Generate runs locally and brings generative AI to your small business with privacy, security, and flexibility. https://lnkd.in/eAvwnG2n #Generativeai #AI #innovation
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Mike Gionfriddo shared thisLots of truths in hereHow to stop procrastinating and start even the most difficult projectsHow to stop procrastinating and start even the most difficult projects
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Mike Gionfriddo shared thisAwesome recap from Money 20/20Mike Gionfriddo shared thisQuick highlights from Money 20/20. Would love to know yours. Put them in the comments below.
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Mike Gionfriddo shared thisGreat reconnecting with Sanjib and meeting Ben. Money 20/20 was a great event for us!Mike Gionfriddo shared thisBen McLaughlin and I had a fun time hanging out with the Tallied crew at Money20/20 including Venkat (Vinni) Bala , Sunil Singh , ★ John Collins , Mike Gionfriddo
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Mike Gionfriddo shared thisWe are very glad to have Evolve as a partner. They have been fantastic collaborative partner.Mike Gionfriddo shared thisWe are proud to partner with Tallied. Tallied is innovating consumer and corporate credit card programs with fully documented APIs and sandbox access. This gives their customers the ability to build and launch programs, simply and securely. At Evolve Bank & Trust, we are dedicated to helping our partners, like Tallied to find innovative solutions to modern banking needs. Click the link to learn more about what we do: https://lnkd.in/eWSfd8kx #beyondbanking #getevolved #fintech #partnership
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Mike Gionfriddo liked thisMike Gionfriddo liked thisAfter spending 2 days in SF with some amazing people. My main takeaway is that "focus is still the moat." Agentic is back, for good: It never really left, just took a nap. OpenAI killing their checkout product doesn't matter. Consumer-facing autonomous commerce is coming, and it won't look like "hey AI, buy me shoes." It's going to be something far more autonomous than that. And with the Tempo and Stripe MPP hackathon today, it's never been a better time to build! Merchants Agentic Enablement: MPP and x402 are real channels. But not everyone needs to play today (note Instant Checkout being killed is a signal). The question isn't 'should I adopt this', it's 'when does the wave hit my business, and am I ready?' Cards are cool again. Crypto is wrapping them. MPP included them. Virtual cards are having a moment. And Agentic Tokens (shoutout Ramp) are going to sit right in the middle of all of it. The rails are being rebuilt around a new kind of buyer. The best of the trip came from Alvaro Morales at the Orb event: "Enable the outcomes." Not the nuts and bolts. The outcomes. Aligning straight to how he views buy vs build: Companies that spend their time rebuilding every nut and bolt - things that aren't core to their business - will lose. It'll just feel fast. Feel like they are busy. Until they have erosion. Focus is the moat.
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Mike Gionfriddo liked thisMike Gionfriddo liked thisWe’ve added a new jPOS Log Viewer—simple, local, and built for everyday troubleshooting. It covers what most teams actually need without pushing logs into an external SaaS, which in many cases can translate into a noticeable cost reduction. If you’re curious, there’s a short demo and more details in the blog post. https://lnkd.in/d5dD7qsj
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Mike Gionfriddo liked thisMike Gionfriddo liked thisThis is great to fight e-commerce fraud, e-ink based dynamic CVV2. More info here: https://lnkd.in/drRY4ipN
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Mike Gionfriddo liked thisMike Gionfriddo liked thisThree years ago, I sat in a hospital room waiting for our daughter 👶 to be born as I typed my first prompt into ChatGPT. It was stupid. 😜 Something about writing tweets about cycling in my tone. But something clicked. I kept going. After 1,665 conversations. 8,310 prompts. Cursor. Claude. Our own internal autonomous coding Agent (more on that soon 😉). Billions of tokens. Last week at our offsite, we reformed one of our core values, Do Less More Often, around AI and presented it to the team. I presented a story about my AI journey (like many others). Not because I have it figured out. Because I don't, and I wanted the team to know that's the point. Here's what it said: The journey doesn't go: confused → competent → done. It goes Tourist → Power User → Acceleration → Architect → Operator. You earn each one by playing, breaking things, and using it for random stuff you don't even need AI for. We want to invest in our people. We want to optimize for the work humans are irreplaceable at: creativity, judgment, and nuanced decision-making. Let AI absorb the repetitive, the mundane, the research-heavy stuff that drains your best energy. That means the bar isn't "ship a major AI project." It's: are you on the journey? Are you experimenting? Are you letting yourself be bad at this so you can eventually be great at it? Nobody's born an Operator. Everybody starts as a Tourist. If you're on the journey, even on day one, even just asking dumb questions -that's the right place to be. To the BT team that made it this far in the post. Fuck swans. Go ducks! 🦆
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Mike Gionfriddo liked thisMike Gionfriddo liked thisThe current moment feels like one of those times where, more than ever, success and prosperity are predicated on a team's ability to cut through the noise and find clarity amongst chaos. AI, if you haven't heard of it, is obviously the biggest macro trend but even within the technology sector more broadly, and within the payments ecosystem more specifically, there are multiple different concurrent hype cycles (bubbles??!?!) taking shape at the same time. As a leader, it sometimes feels nearly impossible to keep up with the whiplash and avoid chasing the hot trend(s) in any given week. Is it growth at all costs that we care about? Is it bare-knuckle efficiency? Is SaaS dead? Must we become a services business as agents replace the labor market? 🤷♂️ One thing I know for sure is that there's a tectonic shift happening in payments right now as the full-stack PSP is unbundling and merchants and platforms alike are demanding independence, control and autonomy via a decoupled approach to their underlying architecture. I.e. an agnostic vault is now must-have, critical infrastructure. Payment flows of tomorrow will go beyond core processing and the supporting stack needs to be able to accommodate any distributed, embedded and now agentic interaction. You simply cannot get the flexibility and modularity required without deconstructing yesterday's stack. That is why I am SO EXCITED to announce that Kevin Mayes has joined the flock at Basis Theory as our newly appointed (sometimes forward deployed) Chief Payments Officer. Kevin has first-hand experience with this having recently led the enormous effort and undertaking at Chewy with great success. If you are feeling stuck with your current PSP and don't know what to do - reach out to Kevin. If you are contemplating hiring your own Chief Payments Officer - reach out to Kevin. If you are sick and tired of rigid platforms that lock you into a black box solution with little to no autonomy - reach out to Kevin. If you are not the size of Chewy and don't have the same resources, don't worry - reach out to Kevin. If you are looking for advice on a traditional mullet vs. a modern mullet - reach out to Kevin. Most importantly, get yourself someone who shows up to their first week (which just so happened to be our annual company offsite, taking place in Mexico 🇲🇽) wearing this.
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Mike Gionfriddo liked thisMike Gionfriddo liked thisTrusted data → trusted AI Apps. That’s the shift powering Sigma’s momentum. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gDrjT6FP
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Mike Gionfriddo liked thisMike Gionfriddo liked thisI'm so proud of where I work and what we help people achieve. Metabolic disease and Type 2 Diabetes can be reversed. #VirtaHealth A Doctor Told Him He Had 6 Months Left to Live. Then He Saved His Own Life. <linked story> https://lnkd.in/giKTAFs7
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Mike Gionfriddo liked thisMatching Kevin Mayes' merchant and payment skills with our world-class team and speed will change the landscape. Exciting times ahead, friends. Stay tuned - or whatever a pilot would say 🤣.Mike Gionfriddo liked thisKevin “Mullet” Mayes is officially back in business mode. Today the next chapter begins. I’m excited to share that I’ve joined Basis Theory as Chief Payments Officer. Over the past few years I've had the chance to work closely with the team at Basis Theory as a customer while building the payments organization at Chewy. That experience left a big impression. The technical depth, pace of innovation, and true partnership mindset stood out immediately and sustained through my time there. Payments infrastructure is entering a really interesting moment. Payment stacks are becoming more complex, merchants are pushing for more independence, and new forms of automated and AI-driven commerce are emerging quickly. This is where Basis Theory shines. One thing I’ve learned after two decades in this space: the vault sits at the heart of it all. Control of payment credentials determines flexibility, independence, and the ability to optimize payments over time. And for merchants, that control should always remain in their hands. I wrote more about why I joined and why this moment in payments infrastructure matters in the blog linked below. Excited for what comes next. Grateful to Colin Luce, Casey Clegg, James Armstead, and Grant Crider for the opportunity and the trust. Looking forward to building together. If you’re interested in the deeper thinking behind the move or want to talk payments optimization, I’d love to connect.
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JMAPI: Write Once, Manage Everywhere
Proceedings of the JavaOne Conference
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Mission Critical Systems Management
Prentice Hall
Patents
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System & Method for Dynamic Offering Topologies
US 8577761
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System & Method for Managing Privacy for Offerings
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US 8655757
US System & Method for Assigning a Unique Asset Identity
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