Is that a conflict of interest having your mentor launch a direct competitor to your company?
Our approach is completely different than theirs: light integrations vs deep integrations. We believe their approach will do more harm than good for the industry causing retailers/platforms to invest millions of dollars in building infrastructure that's not going to be ROI positive. Retailers will end up paying to build/maintain that infrastructure part, they will pay the merchant fees, and they will have to pay Twitter/any partner promoting them.
"We mean it when we say we're big fans of Patrick, John, Stripe."
"We believe their approach will do more harm than good for the industry"
I can see what you're saying, but this was not as well worded as it could have been.