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Simon Kemp
Host, The Platform Shift® · The Platform Shift®
Simon hosts Shift Conversations with the founders and operators building the future of software, payments and commerce — drawing out the decisions behind the businesses and putting them on the record.
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Conversations Simon has led.
Episode 47 · 6 July 2026
“We stopped selling software the day we became a platform.”
Elena Cho on crossing from vertical SaaS into the payments and data rail its whole category now runs on.
Episode 46 · 27 June 2026
The margin case for embedded finance.
Priya Anand on why embedded finance is the single best margin decision available to vertical software today.