The chief product officer of a cross-border payments company sits in a quarterly board meeting. The board wants to know why two...
A payments startup founder spends her Saturday morning writing a breakdown of cross-border settlement costs. She includes figures from a public central...
Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe, maintains a personal website with curated reading lists, book recommendations, and essays about technology and economic growth....
Jamie Dimon publishes a 60-page annual letter to JPMorgan shareholders that takes weeks to prepare. The letter is not required by regulation...
Patrick Collison, Stripe’s co-founder, wrote a blog post in 2012 about the economic history of the printing press. It had nothing to...
David Vélez, the founder of Nubank, gave 127 media interviews in 2022. That is roughly one interview every three days. Nubank had...
Jamie Dimon’s annual letter to JPMorgan shareholders runs 40 to 60 pages. It covers macroeconomics, geopolitical risk, regulatory policy, technology trends, and...
In 2019, Tobi Lütke, the CEO of Shopify, published a blog post arguing that the future of commerce was not about choosing...
When Patrick Collison published a blog post in 2016 comparing the speed of building permits in San Francisco to construction timelines in...
In September 2023, Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, testified before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on cryptocurrency regulation. The testimony was...
When Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff began publishing essays about investment methodology in 2012, his company managed less than 100 million dollars in...
In March 2019, Adyen’s co-founder Pieter van der Does made an unusual decision for a company that had just posted record revenue...
In 2012, a venture capitalist named Nigel Morris published a detailed essay arguing that data science would transform consumer lending more profoundly...
In October 2020, Cathie Wood published a 15-page research paper through ARK Invest titled “Big Ideas 2021” that included a section predicting...
In early 2017, Kabbage co-founder Rob Frohwein faced a growth challenge that his company’s marketing team could not solve through conventional channels....
Eighty-two percent of fintech founders at companies that raised Series A or later have published at least one industry article or media...
Thought leadership now influences 61% of B2B purchasing decisions in financial technology, up from 37% in 2020, according to a 2024 Edelman-LinkedIn...
Seventy-eight percent of fintech executives at companies valued above $100 million publish industry research at least quarterly, according to a 2024 LinkedIn...