CEO & Co-Founder, Melio
Search every verified Matan Bar interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Matan Bar, co-founder and CEO of Melio, has discussed the company's approach to B2B payments and its growth in several recent podcast appearances. In a January 2025 episode of the Invested podcast, Bar recounted an interaction with former President George W. Bush, during which he described Melio's mission as "we keep small business in business." He also discussed the company's early days, noting that before building a product, Melio hired a person in Manhattan to manually perform bookkeeping and vendor payments for ten small businesses via WhatsApp, an approach he said helped the team understand customer workflows. Bar has emphasized the importance of focus, stating that the company uses the phrase "the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing" in product roadmap meetings. He has also advised that "always do something" is the best career advice for young people, and has said that the worst thing for a team is "a bad player that thinks he's good." Bar has described Melio's growth, stating that the company processed about $20 million a month in early 2020 and around $1.7 billion a month by the end of 2021. He has characterized Melio as a B2B payments platform that acts "like Stripe but focused on B2B," and has noted that the company's objective includes creating "a workplace we all feel proud of." Bar has also discussed the role of banks in the payments ecosystem, stating that "banks are here to stay" and that they will continue to act as the routers for moving money, with fintechs providing infrastructure and applications on top.
“I always thought that the worst thing that can happen to your team is to have a bad player — like someone that doesn't know how to play — it's not the worst thing.”
“The worst thing that can happen to your team is have a bad player that thinks he's good; that ruins the game.”
“I learned from soccer — I can manage playing with bad players, but playing with someone that is terrible and thinks he's awesome, you just lose.”
“Always do something. People that do something — good things happen. If you use your time watching Netflix you won't see any interesting evolutions in your life; if you keep doing stuff, building stuff, impacting stuff, just do something — I think good things will happen.”
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On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Matan Bar, co-founder and CEO of Melio. Before founding Melio in 2018, Matan Bar was the GM of the PayPal Consumer R&D center in Tel Aviv and led PayPal’s Consumer Peer to Peer Payments Group globally, responsible for over $50B in payment volume annually. Matan joined PayPal through the acquisition of his first company (The Gifts Project) by eBay Inc in 2012. Please rate this episode 5 stars wherever you stream your podcasts! KEY TOPICS [00:00:00] Intro [00:02:10] Founding The Gifts Project [00:06:37] “Ideas Change, People Don’t” [00:11:00] Re…
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