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April 22, 2025 25 mins
In this episode of the CEO Podcast, we sit down with Cleveland Brown, the co-founder and CEO of PayScout. Cleveland shares his fascinating journey from building a communication platform for public schools to leading a global payment processing technology company. Discover how PayScout transforms payment processing from a cost center to a profit center using their proprietary payment orchestration platform and AI-driven tools.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:16 - Cleveland's journey to becoming CEO of PayScout
00:50 - What is PayScout?
01:20 - Cleveland's excitement about payments
02:25 - Transition from communication platform to payment processing
03:04 - Studying philosophy and its impact
04:07 - First experience with Nietzsche
04:54 - Importance of company culture
06:19 - Mentorship at PayScout
07:09 - AI in payments and its future
09:25 - Crypto and its impact on payments
11:08 - Using AI for fraud detection
13:21 - Cleveland's reading recommendations
15:34 - Thoughts on raising capital
16:20 - Leaders Cleveland admires
17:11 - Outlook for 2025
19:17 - Cleveland's name and family legacy
20:23 - The importance of taking chances
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