> While I haven't done a lot of research in this area, I would suspect launching a new credit card company is just a massive amount of work there's a Futurama

> While I haven't done a lot of research in this area, I would suspect launching a new credit card company is just a massive amount of work there's a Futurama episode that has a snarky commentary on this - s01e06: fry: "Do you take Visa?" clerk: "Visa hasn't existed for five hundred years." fry: "American Express?" clerk: "Six hundred years." fry: "Discover Card?" clerk: "Hmm...sorry, we don't take Discover."