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Technical founder reveals the infrastructure insight that built a £70M fintech

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“So that was the fundamental insight, and it was a technical insight, which is what compelled me to to to to start Primer in the first place because I'm most interested by technical insights.”

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they would need to build what is akin to an infrastructure for payments through which they would then connect their payment service providers in aid of providing the best payment experience to their to their customers. So that was the fundamental insight, and it was a technical insight, which is what compelled me to to to to start Primer in the first place because I'm most interested by technical insights. Anything else is not particularly

interesting to me, I I I will tell you. No. Sure. And and, I mean, amazing journey. You you then went on to scale super, super fast. You raised, like, 70,000,000.

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Primer's co-founder Paul Anthony explains the core technical insight that led him to start the company - recognizing that businesses needed to build payment infrastructure to connect multiple payment providers for optimal customer experience. He emphasizes how technical insights, rather than market opportunities, drive his entrepreneurial decisions.

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This clip captures the foundational moment and mindset of a successful technical founder, showing how deep technical understanding can identify billion-dollar opportunities.

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