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Derek Dean

CEO of Flute, a payments platform rebuilding merchant acquiring; over 25 years of go-to-market leadership in enterprise software and service-commerce platforms.

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PODCASTS

Jun 30, 2026

Leaders In Payments

Leaders In Payments

The State of Payments: Shifts, Friction & The Road Ahead | Episode 500

Jun 30 · 34m

Kathleen Pierce GilmoreGUEST

14:03

And that introduces friction as well.

Derek DeanGUEST

14:05

So this is the one that really gets me because it cuts against the whole story we like to tell about how far payments has come.

Derek DeanGUEST

14:12

We spent years making the moment of taking a payment beautiful.

Derek DeanGUEST

14:17

You tap, you glance at your phone like you're done.

Derek DeanGUEST

14:19

It felt like magic.

Derek DeanGUEST

14:20

It feels like magic.

Derek DeanGUEST

14:22

But underneath that, the merchant's actual job, just getting paid by everybody who wants to pay them at a price they can understand, is still weirdly hard.

17 MINS LATER

Steve PinadoGUEST

31:04

And the industry needs to prepare for that.