Margin For Error: The Story of Entrepreneurs, Investors and Platform Builders
Margin For Error: The Story of Entrepreneurs, Investors and Platform Builders
Podcast Description
Building an innovative company don’t come with safety nets. Margin For Error is a podcast series featuring unfiltered conversations with the people shaping the startup world — founders, investors, and platform leaders. Hosted by HelloAdvisr, each episode dives into what it's really like to build a company from the ground up — and the challenges and decisions being made behind closed doors - to drive innovation and disrupt the status quo. Tune in to get honest insights for anyone building something that matters.
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The podcast explores critical themes within the startup world, focusing on entrepreneurship, innovation, and the challenges of scaling a business. Episodes like 'Rethinking Fertility' discuss breaking stigmas in male reproductive health, while 'Mixing the Perfect Blend' dives into building brands in the beauty industry. With a commitment to authentic storytelling, episodes also tackle systemic issues and the personal journeys of founders.
The playbook for building a business doesn’t exist.
Margin for Error is where entrepreneurs, investors, and operators share what they’ve figured out along the way. Hosted by HelloAdvisr CEO, Ed Lee, each episode is a deep conversation with the people behind real companies, covering fundraising, growth strategy, product development, AI, pricing, PR, and the hard decisions that don’t come with a manual. Whether you’re raising your first round or scaling past product-market fit, this podcast gives you the insight and honesty you won’t find in a pitch deck.
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Jo Elias Phillips and Will Corbera, co-founders of Payabli, are building the payments infrastructure that software companies have been waiting for. After meeting at a salsa club in Miami over 15 years ago and bonding over entrepreneurship, they set out to solve a problem they saw firsthand: vertical SaaS platforms were losing time, money, and customers trying to stitch together fragmented payment solutions that were never built for them.
Will bootstrapped his first payments company for 17 years before a successful exit. Jo helped architect what became ServiceTitan's payments business, now processing $60 billion in annual volume. Together, they combined those experiences into Payabli, a unified pay-in, pay-out, and pay-ops platform that helps software companies embed and monetize payments without building everything from scratch. The company has raised $60 million in venture capital, serves close to 100 partners, and processes tens of billions of dollars in volume.
This episode explores their origin story, the lessons they carried from previous startups, and why they believe the future of payments belongs to the platforms, not the legacy processors.
Here's what's covered:
- Why most SaaS companies underestimate what it takes to monetize payments after integration
- How Payabli unified pay-ins, pay-outs, and pay-ops to eliminate vendor fragmentation
- How AI is reshaping their product, operations, and long-term vision for scaling without headcount bloat
If you've ever wondered why your payment integration isn't generating the revenue you expected, this conversation shows you what's missing.
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