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title: "Robert Nikic: The Red Tape Keeping Founders Out"
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# Robert Nikic: The Red Tape Keeping Founders Out

Robert Nikic on the red tape that keeps founders out: getting set up on payments, starting a store and getting access to high-demand products.

- Published: 2026-10-16
- Watch: https://robertnikic.com/media/the-red-tape-keeping-founders-out

## Transcript

Any of my policies that I plan to advocate for really come down to the groundwork of faster payments. Number one, what does it take for an entrepreneur to get set up on payments and start accepting high volumes of payments? Number two, what does it take to actually start a store? What does it take to actually get access to high-demand products? A lot of red tape is in the industry right now. A lot of entrepreneurs can't go out there and purchase a subset of, let's say, 500,000 products, right? They don't have that capital, but there's also a lot of policy that's prohibiting them from doing that in the first place. I'm here to cut that red tape.