26 min

John Lunn, CEO and Founder of Gr4vy: $27 Million Raised to Build the Future of Payments Infrastructure Category Visionaries

    • Entrepreneurship

In today's episode of Category Visionaries we speak with John Lunn, CEO and Founder of Gr4vy, a payment orchestration platform that's raised over $27 Million in funding.
Topics Discussed: 
John’s background as a marine biologist who’s worked in payments for decades and helped start other companies, including PayPal
John's most admired individuals, and sci-fi books that have influenced him
Why payments are a problem area for online retailers, and how Gr4vy helps them manage payments with ease and flexibility
The current payment landscape, and why trying to sell a payment system to a company’s payments team is the wrong move
Why it’s important to pick VCs that you like as people, and why John would advise his past self to grow his company slower
 
Favorite book: 
The Culture (9 book series)

In today's episode of Category Visionaries we speak with John Lunn, CEO and Founder of Gr4vy, a payment orchestration platform that's raised over $27 Million in funding.
Topics Discussed: 
John’s background as a marine biologist who’s worked in payments for decades and helped start other companies, including PayPal
John's most admired individuals, and sci-fi books that have influenced him
Why payments are a problem area for online retailers, and how Gr4vy helps them manage payments with ease and flexibility
The current payment landscape, and why trying to sell a payment system to a company’s payments team is the wrong move
Why it’s important to pick VCs that you like as people, and why John would advise his past self to grow his company slower
 
Favorite book: 
The Culture (9 book series)

26 min