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David Cauthron

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

There's also a number of rollercoaster rides that we had with our payment processing partners. We had just signed a contract on with one of the partners. I won't say which one they are, but we just signed a contract and said, hey, we're going to be able to now issue credit cards with you. And it wasn't, but two weeks later, we started thinking, hey, you know what?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

There's also a number of rollercoaster rides that we had with our payment processing partners. We had just signed a contract on with one of the partners. I won't say which one they are, but we just signed a contract and said, hey, we're going to be able to now issue credit cards with you. And it wasn't, but two weeks later, we started thinking, hey, you know what?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

There's also a number of rollercoaster rides that we had with our payment processing partners. We had just signed a contract on with one of the partners. I won't say which one they are, but we just signed a contract and said, hey, we're going to be able to now issue credit cards with you. And it wasn't, but two weeks later, we started thinking, hey, you know what?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

We're going to need treasury as well, which is essentially being able to do ACH transfers and wire transfers throughout the program. And so we went back and said, hey, we'd like to be on this solution as well. Let's go ahead and add that to the contract. We received a message back saying, unfortunately, we're not going to be able to move forward with you, period.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

We're going to need treasury as well, which is essentially being able to do ACH transfers and wire transfers throughout the program. And so we went back and said, hey, we'd like to be on this solution as well. Let's go ahead and add that to the contract. We received a message back saying, unfortunately, we're not going to be able to move forward with you, period.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

We're going to need treasury as well, which is essentially being able to do ACH transfers and wire transfers throughout the program. And so we went back and said, hey, we'd like to be on this solution as well. Let's go ahead and add that to the contract. We received a message back saying, unfortunately, we're not going to be able to move forward with you, period.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

Whoa, like our world just fell apart. Thankfully, we found an option to get out of that. We were able to move forward. Now we've got a great partner in our payment processing. But it was like your world just comes apart because you're like, we're relying on this. And just a kind of a big mistake putting all of our eggs in that particular basket at the time. But we moved past it and we're good now.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

Whoa, like our world just fell apart. Thankfully, we found an option to get out of that. We were able to move forward. Now we've got a great partner in our payment processing. But it was like your world just comes apart because you're like, we're relying on this. And just a kind of a big mistake putting all of our eggs in that particular basket at the time. But we moved past it and we're good now.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

Whoa, like our world just fell apart. Thankfully, we found an option to get out of that. We were able to move forward. Now we've got a great partner in our payment processing. But it was like your world just comes apart because you're like, we're relying on this. And just a kind of a big mistake putting all of our eggs in that particular basket at the time. But we moved past it and we're good now.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

So one of the things my mentors told me is one of our probably biggest challenges is that we're very product-focused individuals as founders. Really things that we have focused on for the future is just customers. We need to get onboarded. We're shooting for 100 customers by the end of the year. And so we're still just growing the platform, polishing what we've already built.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

So one of the things my mentors told me is one of our probably biggest challenges is that we're very product-focused individuals as founders. Really things that we have focused on for the future is just customers. We need to get onboarded. We're shooting for 100 customers by the end of the year. And so we're still just growing the platform, polishing what we've already built.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

So one of the things my mentors told me is one of our probably biggest challenges is that we're very product-focused individuals as founders. Really things that we have focused on for the future is just customers. We need to get onboarded. We're shooting for 100 customers by the end of the year. And so we're still just growing the platform, polishing what we've already built.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

We're a little earlier than some of your previous podcasts, but we launched just last month. And so we're just focused on growing the customers as fast as we possibly can. But from a future, from a roadmap perspective, we're looking at what is the ultimate goal that we have as a company.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

We're a little earlier than some of your previous podcasts, but we launched just last month. And so we're just focused on growing the customers as fast as we possibly can. But from a future, from a roadmap perspective, we're looking at what is the ultimate goal that we have as a company.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

We're a little earlier than some of your previous podcasts, but we launched just last month. And so we're just focused on growing the customers as fast as we possibly can. But from a future, from a roadmap perspective, we're looking at what is the ultimate goal that we have as a company.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

And that should be, you can call it a mission statement or your vision, but it's the one sentence, the one fixture that you're going to be constantly focused on. And that focus for us is to enable the movement of money in anything we do. So what does that mean? And so the next set of things we're doing is invoicing and payments and then more card options.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

And that should be, you can call it a mission statement or your vision, but it's the one sentence, the one fixture that you're going to be constantly focused on. And that focus for us is to enable the movement of money in anything we do. So what does that mean? And so the next set of things we're doing is invoicing and payments and then more card options.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

And that should be, you can call it a mission statement or your vision, but it's the one sentence, the one fixture that you're going to be constantly focused on. And that focus for us is to enable the movement of money in anything we do. So what does that mean? And so the next set of things we're doing is invoicing and payments and then more card options.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

But that vision is really anywhere money is moving, we want to be in the middle of it. So money's coming in from invoices, money's going out from payments, money's going out from expenses. So we can be at the center of The reason for that is automation. A lot of platforms, you think of something like a QuickBooks and their accounting solution that they have in place is very manual heavy.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

But that vision is really anywhere money is moving, we want to be in the middle of it. So money's coming in from invoices, money's going out from payments, money's going out from expenses. So we can be at the center of The reason for that is automation. A lot of platforms, you think of something like a QuickBooks and their accounting solution that they have in place is very manual heavy.