Welcome to the Tearsheet Podcast. I’m Tearsheet Editor in Chief, Zack Miller.

As an early PayPal employee, Oded Zehavi jumpstarted the firm’s Middle East and Africa business. From there, he joined Payoneer to help with a turnaround by optimizing sales, product and marketing. Now, Oded is the CEO and co-founder of Mesh Payments, a corporate payments firms that uses a speciality in helping firms manage their subscription spend to eventually handle their total spend.

We talk about the changes Oded has seen in the payments industry over the past 15 years and where he thinks it’s headed in the future. We drill down into opportunities for payments firms in the SaaS economy and how Mesh uses its experience managing SaaS payments to expand into its clients total spend -- it grew 600 percent over the past year.

Oded Zehavi is my guest today on the Tearsheet Podcast.