 
                                Kieran O'Reilly
@kieransoreilly
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07-11-2015 08:21:30
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        Not every day your company gets compared to a future WNBA superstar! “Knot - The Merchant Connectivity Platform — Paige Bueckers. Young, exciting connector with superstar upside.” Huge props to Alex Johnson for this gem. Go read the full article, it's scarily spot on and hilarious. fintechtakes.com/articles/2025-…
 
        Last month alone, Knot - The Merchant Connectivity Platform made 30,000,000+ API calls directly to merchants. No screen scraping. No humans in the loop. No re-selling third party vendors. Just real home-grown infrastructure, and we’re just getting started 🦾
 
        Knot - The Merchant Connectivity Platform + PayPal : Now Live! We’re excited to share that PayPal is now live with Knot's CardSwitcher™. With this launch, PayPal users can seamlessly add their PayPal-branded cards across top merchants. This removes the friction of manual updates and makes it even easier to
 
        Shoutout to Dwight Howard for playing 3s for ~1 hour—had to hit a little MJ shrug after dropping a 3 👀 (Note: I know he could end me with a single jump - he was beyond nice and could score at will obviously)
 
        Today Amarildo Gjondrekaj invited Kieran O'Reilly and I to Nasdaq this morning for the Opening Bell Ceremony. One of the best parts of building in B2B enterprise SaaS: work and friendship blur constantly. Grateful to be here with our friends and work colleagues!
 
                        
                    
                    
                    
                 
         
         
         
        There’s one stat about Knot - The Merchant Connectivity Platform that no one ever guesses: 40% of us are dropouts. At least 16 people here never finished college, and some never started. That includes me. I left Harvard after sophomore year and my brother Kieran, our CTO, dropped out after his freshman year
 
                        
                    
                    
                    
                 
         
        I met Dylan Field through the Thiel Fellowship - he's brilliant, and more importantly, kind. But most people forget: Figma launched over 3 years after their seed round! When we first met, I was surprised they were still pre-launch. But once I got my hands on it, it was undeniable:
 
                        
                    
                    
                    
                 
         
        I’m thrilled to have finished 6th at the USA Catan Nationals this weekend! CATAN - Official is a game of inches. Trading, negotiating, blocking, planning many turns ahead, all while calculating how one dice roll can change the board position. In my semifinal, I was holding a
 
                        
                    
                    
                    
                 
         
        I may be the luckiest person in the world. When Kieran O'Reilly and I we were in elementary school, we set up lemonade stands and handed out flyers for our parents’ business during summers. In high school, it was FBLA and Model UN. Early mornings competing, always side by side.
 
                        
                    
                    
                    
                 
         
        Excited to announce Knot - The Merchant Connectivity Platform's VIP Happy Hour at Money20/20. Knot is now powering the vast majority of leading fintechs (including many not announced), so this exclusive event will bring together some of the brightest minds for an evening of feasting, highly curated
 
                        
                    
                    
                    
                 
         
         
                         
                         
                         
                         
                        