Peter Dougherty
President at Spreedly, the open payments platform. Focused on scaling from $20M to $100M, agentic commerce, AI fraud, and how payments infrastructure needs to evolve for AI-driven transaction volume.
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About Peter Dougherty
Peter Dougherty is President at Spreedly, the payments orchestration platform that helps merchants and platforms route transactions across multiple payment service providers. Spreedly positions itself in the emerging category of open payments, sitting above individual processors so commerce companies can optimize routing, manage fraud, and add new providers without rewiring their stack.
Dougherty's focus is on scaling Spreedly through the inflection point from roughly $20M to $100M in revenue, and on preparing payments infrastructure for the volume that agentic commerce will drive. His operating philosophy centers on matching people to problems based on what energizes them, and on using the one-way-door versus two-way-door framework to decide which problems require senior operators and which can be delegated as learning opportunities.
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