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Bill Clerico is an investor at Convective Capital. He is an early investor in 50+ companies, and he is the former CEO of WePay which was acquired by JPMorgan. In this conversation, we talk about Bill's investment thesis - his entire firm is focused on investing in technology, software, &amp; hardware related to wildfires. Bill and his team are looking for startups that are trying to help mitigate, treat, &amp; prevent all of those issues.  ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 235,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://pomp.substack.com/ 

Bill Clerico is an investor at Convective Capital. He is an early investor in 50+ companies, and he is the former CEO of WePay which was acquired by JPMorgan. In this conversation, we talk about Bill's investment thesis - his entire firm is focused on investing in technology, software, &amp; hardware related to wildfires. Bill and his team are looking for startups that are trying to help mitigate, treat, &amp; prevent all of those issues. ======================= Pomp writes a daily letter to over 235,000+ investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at <a href="https://pomp.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://pomp.substack.com/</a>

#1211 Bill Clerico On Investing MILLIONS To Solve Wildfire Crisis 

Bill Clerico founded, headed, and sold WePay to JP Morgan. After wrapping up 12 eventful years with a successful exit, he joins us to talk about executive and talent management, dealing with turnover, managing crisis, and relying on your co-founder when times are rough.

Bill Clerico founded, headed, and sold WePay to JP Morgan. After wrapping up 12 eventful years with a successful exit, he joins us to talk about executive and talent management, dealing with turnover, managing crisis, and relying on your co-founder when times are rough.

"We got some cell signal and my phone blew up. We had been hard-down for 90 minutes." with Bill Clerico

Bill Clerico is the co-founder and CEO of WePay which is a leading provider of integrated payments for software platforms. The company raised $75 million from SV Angel, Highland Capital Partners, Ignition Partners, August Capital, and founders of YouTube and PayPal. Ultimately the company was acquired by JPMorgan for a reported $400 million.

Bill Clerico On Leaving His Corporate Job At 22 To Build A Business That JPMorgan Acquired For $400M

Simon Lovell

Are you holding on to unhealthy habits that are keeping you from taking your business to the next level? In a candid interview, Simon Lovell walks us through his journey from drowning in debt and addicted to drugs to self-made entrepreneur, host of The Simon Lovell Show, and CEO of The FitPreneurs. Find out how daily meditation helped Simon turn his life around. Next, Bill Clerico bet it all when he transformed WePay in to a B-to-B online payment processing platform aimed at e-Commerce and SaaS companies.This decision paid off in a big way; JPMorgan Chase acquired WePay in 2017. Bill explains why he chose to pivot and makes bold predictions for the future of the payments industry - Find out how your business may be affected.  [00:00:00] Drugs, Debt, and Living a Double Life [00:04:51] Authentic Connections and Failing Up [00:11:30] Life After Grabbing the Proverbial Brass Ring [00:18:21] Are You Holding on to Unhealthy Habits? [00:26:10] WePay Pivots to White-label Payments API [00:33:22] Predictions for Payment Processing Industry 

Are you holding on to unhealthy habits that are keeping you from taking your business to the next level? In a candid interview, <a href="https://www.simonlovell.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Simon Lovell</a> walks us through his journey from drowning in debt and addicted to drugs to self-made entrepreneur, host of The Simon Lovell Show, and CEO of <a href="http://fitpreneurs.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The FitPreneurs</a>. Find out how daily meditation helped Simon turn his life around. Next, Bill Clerico bet it all when he transformed WePay in to a B-to-B online payment processing platform aimed at e-Commerce and SaaS companies.This decision paid off in a big way; JPMorgan Chase acquired <a href="https://go.wepay.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">WePay</a> in 2017. Bill explains why he chose to pivot and makes bold predictions for the future of the payments industry - Find out how your business may be affected. <ul> <li>[00:00:00] Drugs, Debt, and Living a Double Life</li> <li>[00:04:51] Authentic Connections and Failing Up</li> <li>[00:11:30] Life After Grabbing the Proverbial Brass Ring</li> <li>[00:18:21] Are You Holding on to Unhealthy Habits?</li> <li>[00:26:10] WePay Pivots to White-label Payments API</li> <li>[00:33:22] Predictions for Payment Processing Industry</li> </ul>

Simon Lovell & Bill Clerico 

Bill Clerico is the Co-Founder &amp; CEO @ WePay, the most complete payments solution for platforms. To date, they have raised close to $75m in VC funding from some of the best in the business including Max Levchin, Dave McClure and August Capital just to name a few. As for Bill, alongside his role with WePay, Bill is a part-time partner @ Y Combinator and an angel investor. Prior to startups, Bill cut his teeth in the industry at Jefferies in investment banking. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Bill made his way into the world of startups from investment banking? 2.) How does Bill assess the pivot? What is required to pivot successfully? How can this be communicated to both your board and your team? 3.) How does Bill look to relationship build with investors? What are the fundamentals to a healthy and sustainable investor relationship? 4.) Why should founders ensure they are not the only company representative with the board? What are the benefits of the board having many touchpoints within the family? How can this be done effectively? 5.) What does Bill mean he says you must have an 'opinionated culture'? How can this be conveyed to the team and across the organisation? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Bill’s Fave Book: Failure Is Not An Option Bill’s Fave Blog: The Information As always you can follow Harry, Bill and The Twenty Minute VC on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Eight is a sleep innovation company. With their latest product, the Eight Smart Mattress, being a bed that literally tells you how well you slept last night, paired with an intelligent sensor cover that measures the quality of your sleep and delivers a daily sleep report. In order to bring you the best product, Eight used anonymized sleep data and feedback from over 10,000 people, to understand which materials and types of mattresses give customers the best sleep resulting in their unique blend of four responsive and high-density foam layers plus one layer of proprietary technology that helps people track and improve their sleep. You can check it out on Eightsleep.com – and if you use the code 20VC you will get a whopping 20% discount! FullContact provides the ability to organize your contacts, gain rich insights into them and therefore build deep relationships. With features like automatically identifying and merging duplicate contacts to the ability to snap a photo of a business card and FullContact will transcribe them for you, so no more lost and loose business cards at events. It is with these features just being the tip of the iceberg, FullContact really is the best all in one solution for contact management and you can check them out on fullcontact.com.

<a href="https://twitter.com/billclerico" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bill Clerico</a> is the Co-Founder &amp; CEO @ <a href="https://go.wepay.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WePay</a>, the most complete payments solution for platforms. To date, they have raised close to $75m in VC funding from some of the best in the business including Max Levchin, Dave McClure and August Capital just to name a few. As for Bill, alongside his role with WePay, Bill is a part-time partner @ Y Combinator and an angel investor. Prior to startups, Bill cut his teeth in the industry at Jefferies in investment banking. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Bill made his way into the world of startups from investment banking? 2.) How does Bill assess the pivot? What is required to pivot successfully? How can this be communicated to both your board and your team? 3.) How does Bill look to relationship build with investors? What are the fundamentals to a healthy and sustainable investor relationship? 4.) Why should founders ensure they are not the only company representative with the board? What are the benefits of the board having many touchpoints within the family? How can this be done effectively? 5.) What does Bill mean he says you must have an 'opinionated culture'? How can this be conveyed to the team and across the organisation? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Bill’s Fave Book: <a href="http://amzn.to/2qlWTVs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Failure Is Not An Option</a> Bill’s Fave Blog: <a href="https://t.co/c0fLiHObSD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Information</a> As always you can follow <a href="https://twitter.com/HarryStebbings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harry</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/billclerico" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bill</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/twentyminutevc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Twenty Minute VC</a> on Twitter here! <a href="https://www.snapchat.com/add/hstebbings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC.</a> <a href="https://eightsleep.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eight</a> is a sleep innovation company. With their latest product, the Eight Smart Mattress, being a bed that literally tells you how well you slept last night, paired with an intelligent sensor cover that measures the quality of your sleep and delivers a daily sleep report. In order to bring you the best product, Eight used anonymized sleep data and feedback from over 10,000 people, to understand which materials and types of mattresses give customers the best sleep resulting in their unique blend of four responsive and high-density foam layers plus one layer of proprietary technology that helps people track and improve their sleep. You can check it out on <a href="https://eightsleep.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eightsleep.com</a> – and if you use the code 20VC you will get a whopping 20% discount! <a href="https://www.fullcontact.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FullContact</a> provides the ability to organize your contacts, gain rich insights into them and therefore build deep relationships. With features like automatically identifying and merging duplicate contacts to the ability to snap a photo of a business card and FullContact will transcribe them for you, so no more lost and loose business cards at events. It is with these features just being the tip of the iceberg, FullContact really is the best all in one solution for contact management and you can check them out on <a href="https://www.fullcontact.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fullcontact.com.</a>

20VC: Why We Are Still In The Very Early Days For Fintech, Why Your Company Has To Have An Opinionated Culture & Why The CEO Should Not Be The Sole Point Of Contact With The Board with Bill Clerico, Founder & CEO @ WePay 

Today we have an episode with Bill Clerico the founder of WePay. WePay is a payment’s platform with a built in fraud analyzer that powers some of the worlds best known marketplaces including Care.com, Constant Contact, Freshbooks, GoFundMe and Meetup.  WePay protects its partners from risk and regulatory exposure, while supporting a great experience for their end-users. Prior to WePay, Bill was a technology investment banker and has a degree in computer science from Boston College. lets listen into Bill interview in Silicon Valley with Startup Grind’s own TD Lowe. 

Today we have an episode with Bill Clerico the founder of WePay. WePay is a payment’s platform with a built in fraud analyzer that powers some of the worlds best known marketplaces including <a href="http://Care.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Care.com</a>, Constant Contact, Freshbooks, GoFundMe and Meetup.  WePay protects its partners from risk and regulatory exposure, while supporting a great experience for their end-users. Prior to WePay, Bill was a technology investment banker and has a degree in computer science from Boston College. lets listen into Bill interview in Silicon Valley with Startup Grind’s own TD Lowe.

Focus on Your Strengths with Bill Clerico of WePay

Bill Clerico is a former software engineer turned investment banker turned entrepreneur. He is the CEO and co founder of WePay, which aims to be the easiest way for small businesses to accept payments online.

Bill Clerico is a former software engineer turned investment banker turned entrepreneur. He is the CEO and co founder of WePay, which aims to be the easiest way for small businesses to accept payments online.

131: Bill Clerico of WePay

Bill Clerico is a former Software Engineer turned Investment Banker turned Entrepreneur. He is the CEO &amp; Co-Founder of WePay, which aims to be the easiest way for small businesses to accept payments online.

Bill Clerico is a former Software Engineer turned Investment Banker turned Entrepreneur. He is the CEO &amp; Co-Founder of WePay, which aims to be the easiest way for small businesses to accept payments online.