Brian Dammeir

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205 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 12 Mar

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Off the Rails from the U.S. Faster Payments Council - FPC · 12 March 2026 Brian Dammeir of Plaid on Open Banking, Standards, Fraud/Risk, Pyramids, and the Oscars · 12 Mar 2026 podcast

That's what we do.

We do a lot of really interesting things.

Yeah, for myself, I think you hit the nail on the head, which is no one gets a degree in payments.

No one gets a degree in fintech.

So it's always an interesting journey to see where people got their start.

So actually, originally, I was a ninth grade English teacher, which I only did for a year.

But shout out to anybody who did longer than that.

I couldn't cut it.

So that's a, that's a, Oh, that's fantastic.

And, um, yeah, I did that to start and then, you know what, I always wanted to get into tech.

My original plan was educational technology, but on a whim, I applied to a job at Google.

And they're like, okay, well, you could deal with ninth graders and all their pesky questions.

Why don't you deal with advertisers and their questions?

And I started picking up the phone seven hours a day and phone support.

And what I got trained up on was trust and safety.

So if your account was shut down and frozen, especially in AdWords due to suspected fraud or some other issue,

you talked to me on the phone or yelled at me on the phone.

And that really started my journey down fintech.

I really started my career in trust and safety at both Google and Airbnb, focused on both in-world and online abuse, which then kind of got me into the payments industry overall.

I spent a little under 10 years at what is now a large payment processor called Adyen, which focuses on

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