In March 2024, OpenAI announced a partnership with Stripe to handle payment processing for ChatGPT’s subscription services, a deal that placed Stripe...
An investor reviewing fintech deal flow in early 2026 searches LinkedIn for “embedded lending infrastructure.” Two companies appear in the results. The...
Two payments companies launch in the same year, targeting the same market: cross-border B2B transactions for mid-sized importers. Company A ships a...
A payments startup founder spends her Saturday morning writing a breakdown of cross-border settlement costs. She includes figures from a public central...
Fintech companies with active thought leadership programmes achieve 3.3 times stronger market presence scores than non-publishing competitors, according to a 2024 Kantar...
When Plaid was a seed-stage startup in 2013, its co-founders published detailed technical articles about banking API infrastructure before the company had...
Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe, maintains a personal website with curated reading lists, book recommendations, and essays about technology and economic growth....
In 2021, Brex, the corporate card startup, spent millions on a Super Bowl advertisement featuring a talking dog. The ad was entertaining....
Adyen, the Dutch payment processor, spent just 0.3% of revenue on sales and marketing in 2023 while growing revenue 21% year-over-year. The...
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, maintains a personal blog and regularly shares articles that influenced his thinking on specific markets. When...
Jamie Dimon publishes a 60-page annual letter to JPMorgan shareholders that takes weeks to prepare. The letter is not required by regulation...
When Brex published its analysis of corporate card spending patterns across 30,000 startups in 2024, the report did not mention Brex’s own...
In 2022, Klarna cut its workforce by 10% and saw its valuation drop from $45.6 billion to $6.7 billion. Most companies in...
Patrick Collison, Stripe’s co-founder, wrote a blog post in 2012 about the economic history of the printing press. It had nothing to...
In March 2024, Ramp published an analysis showing that the average US company was paying for 3.2 duplicate software subscriptions it did...
In 2016, a payments company called Marqeta had 50 employees and no public brand recognition outside a small group of payments insiders....
Square published a report in 2020 called “Getting to Know Bitcoin” that explained cryptocurrency to small business owners in language their accountants...
Wealthsimple, the Canadian investment platform, had a problem in 2020. It had a strong consumer brand among millennials but no credibility with...
Every January, a16z publishes its annual fintech “State of the Market” report. The 2024 edition ran to 80 pages, covered 14 market...