
Modern spend management systems for CFOs and employees, with Payhawk CEO Hristo Borisov
About this episode
Lex interviews Hristo Borisov, CEO and co-founder of Payhawk, a leader in B2B payments and expense management. Together, they discuss the evolution of product development, from mobile apps to platforms that solve customer problems. Touching on the 2017 trend of chatbots and the practical uses of this technology today via ChatGPT. Additionally, Hristo expands on the company he founded in 2018 - Payhawk, a Fintech company that automates financial functions for businesses, highlighting the importance of understanding customer problems and iterating solutions to validate and prototype them.
MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION
Payhawk's website: https://bit.ly/3ZjfCRM
Hristo's Linkedin profile: https://bit.ly/3ETjWiv
Topics: fintech, payments, credit, ERP, SaaS, cloud, AI, platform, API, financial ecosystem, chatbots
Companies: Payhawk, Telerik, Progress Software, DarwinAI, Progress NativeChat, Brex, Ramp, ChatGPT
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TIMESTAMPS
1’28”: Hristo’s foundational experiences in technology & how he became a founder
4’03”: Telerik - A successful launchpad for entrepreneurs & startups
7’47”: Building a platform vs building a point solution & building for developers (customer segment)
12’35”: Building a system that generates chatbots - the experience, the motivations, and the outcome
19’10”: Payhawk - the idea, the execution, the main functions, how much money they have raised and what it is used for
24’44”: Payhawk’s customers - the types of customer, the engagement strategy, the go-to-market strategy, and your evolved approach to developers
29’12”: The journey of evolving the product/feature set to becoming the financial ecosystem for the CFO
34’04”: The adjacency of the software product and the underlying financial product & thinking about growth from a global vs regional perspective
39’04”: Channels to use to connect with Hristo & Payhawk
Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD.
Contributors: Lex, Laurence, Matt, Farhad, Mike, Daniella
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