The CEO of a $6 billion fintech explains how the huge risk he took with thousands of banks paid off big

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Plaid's CEO, Zach Perret, said the company scraped data from 12,000 banks.
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Plaid's CEO said the company made a risky gamble in its early days.
Plaid pulled user data from 12,000 banks using screen scraping.
Some of the company's early…

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