When we realized that we both had this problem in two very different spaces, but a very similar

problem, we did a lot of research nights, weekends, and found this spanned so many B2B categories.

And so we decided to launch merge, which is a platform for unified APIs at the B2B space.

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Gil Fike. He's the co-founder of Merge. Now, previously, he was the head of engineering at

Canvas. He's led projects at Wellfront and LinkedIn, and he's at a graduate of the

company university. He now lives and works in San Francisco. Gil, you ready to take us to the top?

Yeah, let's do it. All right, real quick. So talk to me a little bit first. When you leave an

engineering role at a company, it either means your equity is vested and you're good going, you want a new thing, or you got bored and just wanted to leave. Which one was it?

I think I've always wanted to start a company and the timing was right. The problem was there. You know, Canvas was a great place. But the timing was ready and I always wanted to do it. So it decided to make the leap.

So talk to me about the current product you're building and ideally tie into the discovery of the problem via your director of engineering role at Canvas. Yeah, absolutely.

So what we're building here are unified APIs.

And so you integrate once with us and then you can offer your customers, 20, 30, 40 different

integrations in HR, applicant tracking, accounting, and then more categories on the way.

And we came to this idea of me and my co-founder after experiencing this exact problem at both

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