Plaid’s Founders Are Latest Fintech Royalty With Visa Deal
- Zach Perret and William Hockey sell company for $5.3 billion
- Dozens of venture capital firms had initially snubbed the duo
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When Plaid Inc.’s co-founders were starting out in their early 20s, they hid their graduation dates on their LinkedIn profiles to avoid scaring off potential investors who might have been wary about their youth.
As fortune would have it, the relative lack of experience didn’t hold them back.