We’re finalizing our agenda for Unite Summit, an invite-only gathering of the people building the future of embedded finance: banks, tech companies (from public to startups), regulators, and industry leaders. Here are some of the speakers we’ve recently announced: - Mary Dent

Didn't make it into Forbes 30 Under 30? Remember we're all in Forbes N under N for a sufficiently large N.

SOMEDAY CANDIDATES Advice for all founders / managers: create an empty spreadsheet now and call it "someday candidates". I actually made it for you- just create a copy :) docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… Along your journey as a founder, you will meet dozens (or hundreds) of people

Traits of high-performing executives- a 1-pager you can use to hire & evaluate. Inspired by: - Field learnings :) - High Growth Handbook / Elad Gil - The Hard Things About Hard Things / benahorowitz.eth - Scaling People / Claire Hughes Johnson - The Five Dysfunctions of Team /

The more I speak to SaaS / vertical SaaS companies, the more I learn that Stripe makes a SHOCKING amount of money from "instant payouts". The last conversation I had was with a payments leader at a company that processes $1b+ in annual volumes with Stripe Connect. The numbers

Relay has really broken into the mainstream of small businesses financial tools in the last year. Cool to see how everyone recognizes their name now. Congrats Yoseph West and team!

Brady Birkel is the owner of a vacation-rentals management company 🏖️🏡 When he and his team needed a new way to administer their portfolio of properties, they turned to Topkey. unit.co/blog/hosting-t…

Today, Highbeam launched the first finance agents for consumer brands—here is why I believe that vertical, expert agents are now ready to transform how finance teams operate. Finance teams spend most of their time managing a web of point solutions and spreadsheets. That

JOBS TO BE DONE "Jobs to be done" are words that many people know in business, but few companies use the actual framework to drive behavior every day. It's an extremely powerful tool for founders & execs. If your values explain HOW to build, jobs to be done explain WHAT to

Here’s everything I learned recently about Bill Pay (or Accounts Payable) in Vertical SaaS. If you’re a software company looking at offering AP / AR to your customers, I’d love to help you think through your use case. Drop me a line at [email protected], or leave your details on our

I loved seeing this CNBC story about Monarch but was confused about the 'nuclear winter' framing. 2025 has been a great year for fintech. How great? We broke down the numbers 👇

Stablecoins are *mostly* a regulatory arbitrage that works around the US banking system. It won't last. And it's kind of weird that it's the biggest thing in crypto 15 years in. Many people I respect would think that's a stupid statement. I'm open to changing my mind :)

Making it hard for foreign students to attend American universities is the single dumbest thing the US government can do. It simultaneously makes America weaker, other countries stronger, and the world as a whole less prosperous. Lose-lose-lose. Hope they change their policy.

Just met a company that builds financial services for 100k's of small businesses. - 35 engineers - shipped code 176 times last week - aiming for 500 / week by end of 2026 That's 26,000 releases a year. And this company is already well ahead of the big banks in functionality.

1:1 MEETING PLAYBOOK What are your thoughts on 1:1 meetings? I'm starting to agree more and more with Brian Chesky's thoughts on 1:1 meetings: they are NOT as effective as interacting with the broader team. But until I stop doing it... I wanted to open source how I run 1:1

Are there tools to collaborate with your human (!) personal assistant? If not, someone should create one. Features: Share information securely. Share what you need help with. Shared board for open tasks. And more. Eventually most tasks could be automated. CC Sam Corcos 🤔