Anchor and newsman Jon Erlichman said in a tweet that in the beginning, 60,000 credit cards were just mailed to unassuming residents in California in an attempt to get them to use the payment system.
Dee Hock, who recently passed away, was CEO of the card brand from 1970 to 1984. He championed a mix of competition and collaboration among financial institutions to foster innovation, an idea that is still used in technology development.
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