Brian Thomas

It takes a lot of work to get here.

So thank you.

I appreciate it.

And Mike, if you don't mind, let's just jump right into your first question.

You've built a career across finance, risk management, and entrepreneurship from JP Morgan to PayPal, and now co-founding Signified.

What experiences shape your journey to where you are today?

Yeah.

That's very cool.

I love the backstory.

Obviously, working in the space that you were doing in finance, there's a lot of risk and we'll talk about that.

But finance and risk management and that really played a role into your hiring.

And I see that a lot from time to time where people have done something specific, whether they were a professional esports gamer, right?

They got hired into something because something was relatable there with the business.

So thank you.

Mike, at Signified, you set out to solve a fundamental imbalance in e-commerce fraud liability.

What was the highest, I should say, what was the insight that led you and your co-founder to build that company?

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

And again, there's always a challenge, a problem, a gap in the market that entrepreneurs like yourself have found and say there's a better way to do this.

In this case, obviously, putting the onus back on others for the fraud.