Exciting news! We are launching a new service that gets you compensation from robocallers: 1. If a robocaller calls you, give them one of our virtual credit cards. 2. The card gets all their details and allows you to sue for up to $3k per call. Details: vice.com/en_us/article/…

Spot on

Thoughts on what @VaroMoney's banking charter means in the journey to justify Neobank valuations. sethi.to/2020/02/14/a-n…

On a long enough time scale everything becomes fintech theverge.com/2020/2/18/2114…

Only just realized that Alipay and WeChat combined do ~$36T in payments transaction volume, which is >2.5X of what Visa and Mastercard combined do globally (~$14T)

Zero cost of capital is driving the headline #fintech M&A this week. LendingClub buying Radius and Morgan Stanley buying E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley sethi.to/2020/02/21/two…

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spot on

Great insight from Jegen (he/him) F-Prime into why Toast was able to penetrate the restaurant vertical while other verticals (ex: hotel) are harder to wedge into. Fintech angle on how they began and can grow of course.

I learned about @alicefinancial this week. Love how little the product asks of users while putting money in everybody's pocket, in a way that everybody is are happy about. Some thoughts. sethi.to/2020/02/28/wha…

great visual breakdown of the emerging fintech stack

If having most employees working from home makes it harder to have meetings, companies may actually be more productive.

Dear Delta, Are you really not going to let me cancel a ticket bc of #Corona? I'm in seattle, do you really want me flying out of here? Your customer service is as wonderful as your recent stock performance. Love, me

"It’s hard to believe that so much thieving has gone unpunished and unchecked for so long." ouch slate.com/news-and-polit…

A little bit about why banks should be looking over their shoulders at apps like Astra Northstar meetalbert and others that automate and improve your financial life. sethi.to/2020/03/11/how… you know...bc nothing else huge is going on in the world right now 😷

if only there were a simple and efficient way for regular folks to buy munis....😰

Tough times if your customer acquisition strategy was “high yield”

Everyone knows of the Paypal mafia. Few people know of the Trilogy mafia. 15+ founders or CEOs of $1b+ companies are former employees of Trilogy, a mid-sized Austin-based co that makes insurance Saas Nutanix Inc. Indeed Tinder SendGrid Carta Shape Security Zocdoc Mozilla

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