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35 - Choosing Legacy Over Lifestyle After a Billion-Dollar Exit

Small business credit isn’t broken because of a lack of data; it’s broken because the system was never designed for how businesses actually operate.

In this episode, host Jeff Holman speaks with Sal Rehmetullah, CEO and Founder of Worth AI. He has scaled, exited, and re-entered fintech at the highest levels. After building Stax Payments into a market leader and navigating a billion-dollar recapitalization, he turned his attention to one of the most persistent problems in small business finance: underwriting. Sal explains why incremental fixes fail in regulated, legacy systems and why…

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