This is a comprehensive thread on the Buy-Now-Pay-Later Trend. Why have the World's Largest Retailers chosen Affirm's BNPL solution instead of building their solution in-house? This thread explores $AFRM's Competitive Advantage and the current Credit Card disruption:

This week we're at Trondheim! 🇳🇴 Thomas Bacon from Maki and Sigve Søråsen from Strise will sit down for a chat about post-commercialization and setting the product roadmap. More info 👇 slush.org/d-trondheim/

Is it time to eliminate the term 'pre-Seed' and just call it Seed now? Or maybe the 'pre-Seed, Seed, Series A...' terminology should go altogether and be replaced by: 1. Pre Product / MVP 2. Early Product Market Fit 3. Product Market Fit 4. Growth

The Norwegian ecosystem is a sleeping giant.. very excited by things to come there! Thanks Slush

Keys to self improvement (for me): Leave your ego at the door. It stands in the way of your learning. All feedback, even hard, is a gift. Don’t turn away from discomfort. Sit with it, become familiar with it. Process it or redirect it. Emotions are remarkably temporary.

Slightly alarming

Maki portfolio is on 🔥

Some thoughts!

1/12 We - Russia - want to be a nation of peace. Alas, few people would call us that now.

В Петербурге арестовали известную блокадницу Елену Осипову.

Founders: Here's how to raise your seed round from top VCs and Angels: 1. Quickly 2. Maximising valuation 3. Setting you up well for the next round ⬇️💰⬇️

New data! #Russia's oil and gas revenues hit another record high in April. 1.8 trillion rubles in a single month, after 1.2 trillion in March. After only 4 months, Russia's federal #budget has now already received 50% of the planned oil and gas revenue for 2022 (9.5 trillion).

Overheard on 99% of VC calls "We only invest in B2B SaaS..." (full disclaimer, maki.vc invest in hardware!)

You only need to know 3 things to understand finance. I could have saved myself: - 2 years for my MBA - $160,000 to pay for it - 7 years at Goldman If I just learned to read these 3 financial statements:

Some lovely recommendations from Maki House

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. Salman Rushdie

Some jolly sunday evening excel learning!

You have to tip your hat

Gen AI is not a sector, or a problem, or a customer. It's just a tool, that soon everyone will use in some capacity.