E06 - Gordon Stuart - Can you buy your way to success? How to build a powerful product ecosystem without just buying out the competition

Gordon Stuart has over 14 years’ experience, specialising in portfolio strategy, operations, FinTech and embedded services.Today he serves as Global Senior Vice President of FinTech & Embedded Services at Sage overseeing their partner ecosystem and strategy for FinTech, payments and data portfolio.We get his thoughts on why buying your way to success isn’t always the answer to building a powerful 3rd party ecosystem and product portfolio, and his approach to finding the right partners for the 2 million businesses Sage works with.Host: Ellie Duncan, Freelance writer and speakerSpeaker: Gordon Stuart, Global Senior Vice President of FinTech & Embedded Services