0/ Lots of founders have asked me to tweet storm my recent Open Source Paper into a quick 10 point hit list on what to look for when building an #opensource company. Here goes:

Fintech 1.0 saw co’s building out better vertical experiences: Chime in banking, Wealthfront in asset mngt, SoFi in student lending. Fintech 2.0 will be all about horizontal expansion: Robinhood doing banking, and banks like MS becoming brokerages. nytimes.com/2020/02/20/bus…

Oh God no!

Have spent dozens of hours brainstorming with our founders on how to create plans in this uncertain environment. Boiled down a list of questions to help guide conversations and land on a playbook for the road ahead:

Rare team solving a not-so-rare problem: even though ~10% of Americans live with rare diseases, they lack the patient advocacy + data + research we see on more common conditions like heart disease/ cancer. Congrats to Nancy Yu and the team @rdmd on setting out to change that!

You know you’re experiencing something pretty unique in consumer social when you’re in a room discussing the future of retail/ eComm and tobi lutke at Shopify suddenly shows up and shares his expertise! Props to Paul Davison for making quarantine more interesting with Clubhouse 🙌🏼

Big day today for Jason Robins and Ryan Moore as DraftKings goes public even though traditional sports are currently on time-out! Incredible story of true partnership, innovation and optimism... huge congrats to them and the DK team on the journey 🎉🥳🙌🏼

I’m on an H1B visa. Every time I check in at an int’l airport to come back to the US, I find my stomach in knots. This is why. This is the nightmare scenario ⤵️⤵️⤵️ Business leaders: if you want to prevent a reverse brain-drain, now is the time to speak up!

Immigration has built this country. Afraid of brain-drain or not, it is time for business leaders to step up. This administration isn't playing with immigration laws, but with the lives of hundreds of thousands. #Immigration #H1B #Visa

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 thank you Chris Gibson! This is real leadership.

I came to the US on an h1b visa. I’d like to think I’ve been a net positive for the country. RT if you or a family member are also an immigrant who has been net positive for the US

One way to address income inequality is to increase the supply of skilled labor - Economics 101. Limiting H-1B visas does the opposite. 🤔

Immigrants founded over half of $1B startups and they or their children founded 45 percent of Fortune 500 companies. These companies create jobs for Americans, not take jobs from Americans. tinyurl.com/ycwr7k7n tinyurl.com/y634qldg

A deck helps investors see how a founder thinks about her business, the market, her competition and how she plans to scale the company. If you’re wondering what to include in your deck, check out Medha Agarwal’s tips below 👇🏼

Have all my other desi tweeps finished binge-watching Indian Matchmaking on netflix⁷ too? 🇮🇳 Damn... feeling some serious Bombay nostalgia after watching it and eating The Dosa Brothers this week! 🧡💚

Fintech folks, 👀 VCs like Jayni Shah Mercedes Bent M E E R A Harry | Verge Seth Rosenberg -- investing w/strong knowledge+lens around underrepresented communities+spaces ++ companies building w/a view around brand, experience, access, & education businessinsider.com/meet-25-invest…

“If a picture is worth a 1000 words, a meme is worth 10,000 words” — Elon Musk as he admits he is the lucky recipient of tons of insightful memes via his “meme dealers” 🤔😅