The CEO who was told he’d never run American Express has made Amex cool again—and is beating JPMorgan, Visa, and the S&P 500
By Shawn Tully••Fortune
The unlikely story of how a Queens-born outsider turned around a giant by betting young people would happily pay $900 a year for a credit card.
Stephen Squeri appeared to check all the boxes as the next CEO of American Express. By 2016 he had spent three decades at the credit card colossus, reshaped tech operations, headed the corporate and …