GoFundMe

GoFundMe appears in Bill Clerico on WePay, YC, and Fire Tech as one of WePay’s important early API customers. Bill Clerico says GoFundMe was still a very small company when it began using WePay’s payments infrastructure around 2012 or 2013.

The source uses GoFundMe to show why WePay had to mature from manual payments operations into scalable infrastructure. Growth from API customers made transaction review impossible to handle by hand and exposed Early Fintech Fraud Controls as a survival problem.

Connections

• WePay - payments infrastructure provider in the episode.
• Payments Infrastructure Pivot - WePay’s strategic move toward APIs.
• Early Fintech Fraud Controls and Money Movement Infrastructure - operating concepts exposed by GoFundMe-driven scale.