His Ex-Boss Issued Him a Cease-and-Desist Order. Neither Man Expected What Happened in a Parking Lot Next: ‘I Bleed This Business. It’s Cold-Blooded.’

Austin Mac Nab, founder and CEO of Iowa-based payment processing service VizyPay, wanted to hire Ricky Onofre as soon as they met at a local Sprint store, where Onofre worked at the time. “He was a good salesman and seemed like a very genuine guy,” Mac Nab recalls. “I just basically said, ‘Hey, if you’re ever looking for something, swing by our janky office.'” The business he’d launched in 2017 was still very much a startup at that point, Mac Nab explains.

Sprint was about to be acquired by T-Mobile. The “writing was on the wall,” Onofre says, so he took Mac Nab up on his offer to join VizyPay

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