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Joined March 2020
Ant Group “is the purest distilled example of this giant, fintech, super-app, super-market model.” Ahead of its record-busting IPO, @S_Rabinovitch profiles the world’s biggest fintech platform for “Money Talks” econ.trib.al/2pVYa3C
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Beyond the usual #FinTech use cases of the OpenBanking opportunity (pfm or credit scoring), here are several ones in insurance. #InsurTech #API
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Dear startup founders & product builders, The whole idea of "product-market fit," i.e. that there's some magical, universal, knowable tipping point for when you should stop improving your product and start marketing it, is dumb.🤪 A thread.
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1/21: Every early stage startup pitch looks the same at a foundational level. This means that the analysis of every early stage startup also looks similar (especially true in #venturecapital and #fintech). Unpacked:
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To people who don't understand startups, it seems overreaching and even irresponsible that they focus so much on growth. People who do know that when you're making something new, this is the only way to know if it's what users want.
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Almost everyone I know got into venture capital “by accident.” VCs, what did you want to be growing up?
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Take a look at this @_TraderLife_ interview with leadership expert and author of The Art of Judgment, John Adair, here: traderlife.co.uk/culture/boo…
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3 life-changing takeaways from @naval. 1. Inspiration is perishable - act on it immediately. 2. In an age of abundance, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake leads to addiction. 3.The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside.
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We are seeing the “unbundling of Silicon Valley” happening with a new headline every single day. The articles are easy to dismiss as single instances — but the compounding effect will be massive & is impossible for us to quantify today. cnbc.com/2020/08/19/palantir…
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Microsoft CEO @satyanadella called this “2 years of digital transformation in 2 months.”
This must be a world record with 4 enterprise software IPO filings in one day. No end in sight for opportunities to transform businesses. Go ☁️.
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Shout out to @Alexoppenheimer @fvgriss for building this detailed model of Tesla's financials using @CausalHQ.
🏅 Model of the week: Tesla 3-Statement Model @Alexoppenheimer and @fvgriss have built a model that uses three years of historical financials to project forward all relevant financial metrics for Tesla. Check it out: my.causal.app/models/10304
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Does this settle that eternal startup funding question👇 Team v/s Product v/s Market ??
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Great read on fintech infrastructure market dynamics. The Next Generation of Fintech Infrastructure: How API Platforms are Disrupting Banking & Payments by Sebastian Garcia link.medium.com/AOPvAHBi97
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Tencent Holdings (@TencentGlobal) announces its Q2 net profits increased by 37% (beating market predictions) as demand increased during lockdown - profits were bolstered by #FinTech. ow.ly/KhhB50AYoxR
"We’ve entered the stage of massive digital acceleration, with increasing expectations for seamless, real-time experiences." - Oran Cummins on how Mastercard is accelerating fintech innovation through open APIs mastercardcontentexchange.co…
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The tech I use daily as a solo capitalist: AngelList, Airtable, Apollo, Clearbit, Figma, Gem, Kapwing, Muze, SendGrid, Slack, Webflow, Zoom... Bravado, Clubhouse, Dev, Discord for meeting people ✌🏼
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So Bank as a Service is a hot #fintech topic, but what is it? 🤔 ● BaaS allows any brand to embed financial services into its customer experience... 🍎 ● ...by picking and choosing capabilities offered by providers… 🛠️ ● …and licence holders in a modular fashion. ⛓️
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To automate rule and decision-based activities across end-to-end processes, banks need to deploy a suite of smart technologies. Source @BCG Link >> on.bcg.com/308C97s via @antgrasso @antgrasso_IT #Finserv #Fintech #AI #BigData #RPA
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