Marek Olszewski

But in hindsight, maybe we should have done it right there and then.

Exactly.

I mean, I think back then, it's funny that, you know, suddenly payments is kind of in vogue again.

I mean, back then...

Everyone was talking about how crypto can advance financial inclusion, how it's just going to change the world for everyone who lives in a place where they have inflation or they have an unstable government.

And that was really what excited a lot of people.

And it certainly excited us.

And the way we thought that we could have a big mark on the whole world is by creating Global Venmo.

I think, you know, there was a time before you could send a text message to anyone in the world for basically free.

And that, if you think about it, wasn't that long ago, right?

It's really only when WhatsApp kind of created massive network effects that suddenly, you know, you could pretty much reliably send like a text message for free globally to anyone in the world.

And that moment just happened, you know, just really suddenly.

And the same thing is going to happen with payments.

You will very soon, I'm pretty certain of it, be able to send value, stable value to anyone in the world and have that value be immediately useful for the recipient in a way that works for pretty much everyone, even normies.

And obviously we're there for people who are crypto savvy, but to get there for everyone in the world, we're still working towards it.

This is ultimately the mission and the vision behind what we started eight years ago.

And we're still relentlessly working towards that.

Yeah.

So I think, you know, back in 2018, I think we were looking at this exactly the same way.

We're like, what do we need?