Modern spend management systems for CFOs and employees, with Payhawk CEO Hristo Borisov

Lex interviews Hristo Borisov, CEO and co-founder of Payhawk, a
leader in B2B payments and expense management. Together, they
discuss the evolution of product development, from mobile apps to
platforms that solve customer problems. Touching on the 2017
trend of chatbots and the practical uses of this technology today
via ChatGPT. Additionally, Hristo expands on the company he
founded in 2018 - Payhawk, a Fintech company that automates
financial functions for businesses, highlighting the importance
of understanding customer problems and iterating solutions to
validate and prototype them.


 


MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION


 


Payhawk's website: https://bit.ly/3ZjfCRM


Hristo's Linkedin profile: https://bit.ly/3ETjWiv


 


Topics: fintech, payments, credit, ERP, SaaS, cloud, AI,
platform, API, financial ecosystem, chatbots


 


Companies: Payhawk, Telerik, Progress Software, DarwinAI,
Progress NativeChat, Brex, Ramp, ChatGPT


 


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TIMESTAMPS


 


1’28”: Hristo’s foundational experiences in technology
 & how he became a founder


 


4’03”: Telerik - A successful launchpad for entrepreneurs &
startups


 


7’47”: Building a platform vs building a point solution &
building for developers (customer segment)


 


12’35”: Building a system that generates chatbots - the
experience, the motivations, and the outcome


 


19’10”: Payhawk - the idea, the execution, the main functions,
how much money they have raised and what it is used for


 


24’44”: Payhawk’s customers - the types of customer, the
engagement strategy, the go-to-market strategy, and your evolved
approach to developers


 


29’12”: The journey of evolving the product/feature set to
becoming the financial ecosystem for the CFO


 


34’04”: The adjacency of the software product and the underlying
financial product & thinking about growth from a global vs
regional perspective


 


39’04”: Channels to use to connect with Hristo & Payhawk


Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment
advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH
BLUEPRINT LTD.


Contributors: Lex, Laurence, Matt, Farhad, Mike, Daniella


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