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Why Embedded Payments is a Retention Strategy for Vertical SaaS with Joshua Silver, CEO of Rainforest

May 28, 2026

Joshua Silver has spent two decades in embedded payments. Before co-founding Rainforest, he built Patient Co, a healthcare payments business scaled to billions in processing volume and tens of millions of patients, then spent several years consulting with software founders on building their payments programs. Rainforest is payments as a service, purpose-built for vertical SaaS — and in this conversation Joshua makes a compelling case that embedded payments is not just a revenue opportunity bu...

How Figure Is Cutting Mortgage Costs from $12,000 to $1,000, with CEO Michael Tannenbaum

May 21, 2026

Michael Tannenbaum became CEO of Figure in early 2024, taking over from founder Mike Cagney and leading the company through its September 2025 IPO. In this conversation, we get into the mechanics of how Figure's blockchain-based platform competes with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, what it actually takes to cut mortgage origination costs from $12,000 to $1,000, and where the real opportunities in tokenization lie.What We CoveredTaking over as CEO from Mike Cagney and the Big Rocks framework...

Fixing the Broken Appraisal Model in Asset-Backed Lending With Thomas Galbraith, CEO of Barkr

May 14, 2026

Thomas Galbraith is the CEO and co-founder of Barkr, an AI-driven valuation platform for asset-backed lending. He spent his early career in high net worth insurance at AIG and AXA, where he grew comfortable with the challenge of pricing hard-to-value assets. That thread ran through every role he held until it crystallized into a company built around a simple but structural problem: in asset-backed lending, appraisers give you a price and then spend the rest of their report telling you they&ap...