Sam Ahmed, Smartpay - You can't be a startup in Japan, you can't make a mistake and say sorry later, it has to be 100 percent (S3E15)

Sam Ahmed is the Co-Founder and CEO of Smartpay, the first all-in-one payment experience and interest free buy now pay later solution built to solve Japanese consumer payment issues and improve merchant conversion rates. Sam is recognized as one of Asia Pacific premier digital economy leaders and investors, and has been on 4 Asia Pacific Executive Leadership Teams for USD +$20 billion businesses before founding Smartpay. Sam has led blue chip brands across Starbucks (Retail) and Facebook, MasterCard (Technology) in Asia Pacific and Standard Chartered Bank globally driving accelerated revenue growth through Digital, CRM, marketing, communication, product & commercial sales innovation. Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected] We also produce a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/ You can also find us on....Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTechMedium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintechYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintechMeetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/exponentialfinance/support