In 2018, the company I helped build, Adyen, went public in Amsterdam, becoming Europe’s most valuable fintech at the time. I joined in 2007 as employee number 009. I would have preferred 007, but that position had already been taken.
Over the next 11 years, I watched Adyen grow from an ambitious startup into a global payments leader. It remains one of the achievements I am most proud of, and I remain deeply grateful to the team that made it possible.
