Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe, maintains a personal website with curated reading lists, book recommendations, and essays about technology and economic growth....
Galileo Financial Technologies, the API platform behind SoFi, Chime, and dozens of other neobanks, had a partnership problem in 2019. Banks that...
In 2019, Tobi Lütke, the CEO of Shopify, published a blog post arguing that the future of commerce was not about choosing...
When Lemonade, the insurance technology company, filed its S-1 for its 2020 IPO, the filing contained something unusual: a section titled “Lemonade’s...
In 2010, Patrick Collison was 21 years old, living in Palo Alto, and frustrated by how difficult it was to accept payments...
When Max Levchin pitched Affirm to investors in 2012, he had a specific advantage that most fintech founders lack: he had already...
In 2020, Chime was the fastest-growing digital bank in the United States, adding millions of customers monthly and reaching a $14.5 billion...
In July 2015, Revolut launched in the United Kingdom with a single product: a prepaid card that offered interbank exchange rates for...
In September 2023, Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, testified before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on cryptocurrency regulation. The testimony was...
In September 2014, Apple’s senior vice president of internet services Eddy Cue placed a phone call to Dan Schulman, who had just...
In November 2020, Kristo Kaarmann stood outside the London Stock Exchange wearing a t-shirt that read “Nothing to hide.” The co-founder of...
In 2013, Ismail Ahmed sat in a cramped office in East London trying to solve a problem that spanned four continents. His...
Eighty-two percent of fintech founders at companies that raised Series A or later have published at least one industry article or media...