Scaling Europe

Gabriel Le Roux, Co-founder & CEO at Primer: Primer gives companies more control over how they accept customer payments

Scaling Europe

Show Notes

Primer gives merchants one place to manage and optimise every part of their payments. Through a single integration, businesses can connect payment providers, payment methods, and fraud tools, then control how payments are routed and processed. By bringing payment data and AI-powered intelligence together, Primer helps businesses reduce failed payments, lower costs, and expand into new markets.

Gabriel Le Roux is Co-founder and CEO at Primer. He believes that as payments get more automated and complex, merchants need one connected system with full data behind it.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction 0:13 - What Primer does 1:15 - Primer's new $100m round 3:38 - Why Primer built its AI agent, Companion 6:52 - How customer research shaped Companion 9:45 - Companion's surprising adoption 11:59 - How culture shapes Primer's approach to selling 16:16 - Primer's plans to double down on the US 18:02 - Why Primer has been data-driven from day one

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