Composer intends to be like Plaid, but for managing accounts—especially investment accounts. I love it. The founder’s point about the entropy of investment accounts is spot on. Financial innovation fragments the accounts and interfaces where we manage our assets. “Asset […]
“TLDR; I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an emoji email address service. In the process I went viral on TikTok, made $1000 in a week, hired a Japanese voice actor, and learnt about the weird world […]
I’ve historically been a fan of Chamath. This, though, isn’t a good look for him. “A month ago, Palihapitiya said it would only be under the rarest of circumstances that he’d reduce his holdings of any SPAC.” | learn more
“It’s taking consumer finance companies with massive distribution, combining them with a tax preparation API and real-time visibility into users tax position. Tackling TurboTax head on is probably a waste of money. Tackling TurboTax asymmetrically has a real shot.” | learn more
The biggest winner so far from Atomic is Hims, an online pharmacy that’s publicly traded with a market cap of ~$2.5 Billion. “At first, Atomic worked on one company. The following year, it worked on two. By 2018, the outfit […]
This story circulated quickly over the past week. Indie.vc was a funder of startups that didn’t fit the “billion dollars or broke” venture capital path. The fund’s investors have not been thrilled with the approach, and now Indie is shutting […]
“Big markets continually create new opportunities. Even with major incumbents that seem to do it all, new areas of opportunity emerge, and the bigger the market, the more opportunity a small slice represents.” | learn more
“[I]n many ways … “all lending companies sorta sound the same” unless you’ve looked at… well… hundreds.” | learn more
“Situation: The nature of work is changing. The era when you could pick a career through a four-year university degree program, enter the workplace and commit to an employer and profession for 30 years, and then retire comfortably is gone.” | learn more
“People often ask me to compare working for Bezos vs Zuck. I worked with Mark much more closely for much longer, but I did work directly with Jeff in my last 2 years at Amazon incubating the Kindle. Here are […]