Having spent the past 3 years building online checkout and mobile payment solutions at a top fintech company, it hurts to read articles like this where some of

Having spent the past 3 years building online checkout and mobile payment solutions at a top fintech company, it hurts to read articles like this where some of red flags are so "obvious". During my time there, I would regularly check our monitoring dashboards and analytics tools to understand how business is doing. We also had frequent all-hands during which business metrics are communicated transparently. Through digesting and understanding the data from various sources, I was able to have a good sense of how well the business is doing, and that helped me grow in the confidence of the company. Online checkout, as simple as it looks, has tons of complexities, nuances and interplay of various factors hidden behind it. But that's another long long story.