Chime

19 statements across 13 episodes · 9 bullish · 6 bearish · 12 people on the record · first statement Jul 31, 2020 by Clay Wilkes · said 183 times in 65 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Everything said about Chime, oldest first

Jul 31, 2020 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wilkes predicts Chime, Robinhood, Varo, and Current will become major players
“I think JP Morgan is not going away, but Chime, Robin Hood, Varo, Current, these companies are going to be significant players in their own right, and the growth rates are phenomenal, and that will continue.”
Clay Wilkes Jul 31, 2020 ▶ 10:39 20VC: Why The Unbundling of Fintech Will Continue, How VCs Are Propping Up The Neo-Banking Industry & Why We Need A New Framework To Value Businesses Today with Clay Wilkes, Founder & CEO @ Galileo
Sep 20, 2021
Disclosure
Hans Tung passed on early investment rounds in Chime and DoorDash
“If I look at some of the misses we had, you know, I did not invest in Chime. I did not invest in DoorDash.”
Hans Tung Sep 20, 2021 ▶ 25:10 20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
Aug 15, 2022 bearish
Opinion
Mohnot: Chime Is Significantly Overvalued at a $25 Billion Valuation
“While chime at twenty-five billion is probably very significantly overvalued.”
Sheel Mohnot Aug 15, 2022 ▶ 33:40 Sheel Mohnot: Lessons from Investing in Flexport and Missing on Robinhood | 20VC #917 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 21, 2022 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Shah: Crosslink acquired over 20% of Chime through a modest early investment
“Look at Crosslink. I mean, no one really talks about Crosslink. I don't even know if you've had an investor from Crosslink on, on 20 Minute VC, but they ended up owning like over 20% of Chime you know, through, like, a pretty modest deal because no one was loo…”
Semil Shah Nov 21, 2022 ▶ 58:17 Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 25, 2023 positive
Opinion
Lerner: Chime is fundamentally a consumer product company, not fintech
“Chime is actually much more of a consumer product company than it is a fintech at the end of the day.”
Ely Lerner Oct 25, 2023 ▶ 7:06 Ely Lerner: Should Startups Hire Advisors & How much should they be paid? | E1075 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 13, 2024 negative
Opinion
Blomfield: Chase Sapphire and Amex prevent neobanks from winning affluent US consumers
“It's just not been a successful mainstream neobank in the U.S. Chime is good, but it's targeting kind of gig economy workers, and then for the more affluent customers, Chase Sapphire and American Express just have the market sewn up.”
Tom Blomfield May 13, 2024 ▶ 17:02 Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 18, 2024
Assertion Supported
Harry Stebbings: Chime is worth roughly a quarter of Revolut
“Chime, you know, is probably a quarter of the enterprise value of Revolut now.”
Harry Stebbings Oct 18, 2024 ▶ 40:57 Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 25, 2024
Disclosure
Goldberg: Chime was my biggest venture capital missed opportunity
“Chime.”
Mark Goldberg Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 42:34 Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 25, 2024 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2029
Stebbings: Revolut is more likely to win the US market than Chime
“I would actually place a lot bigger bet on Revolut taking the US than Chime.”
Harry Stebbings Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 43:38 Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 3, 2025 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Lemkin: Stripe, Figma, Chime, and Canva will IPO within 18 months
“Stripe, Figma Chime, the list of folks north of five hundred million, ok, Canva, three billion, that are gonna IPO in the next 18 months.”
Jason Lemkin Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 50:30 20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
May 22, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
O'Driscoll: Chime's $1.7B revenue exceeds 80-90% of IPO-candidate unicorns
“This is still a 1.7 billion dollar revenue company. It'll probably be larger than, you know, 80% of the companies that are, you know, unicorns that have been maybe 90% of the companies that have been talked about for IPO.”
Rory O'Driscoll May 22, 2025 ▶ 17:23 Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 22, 2025 bearish
Prediction Held up
O'Driscoll: Chime will IPO around $10 billion, down 50% from peak
“I think if you end up plus or minus ten billion, you know, rough order of magnitude here, you are looking at a deal going public, you know, 50, 55% below the last round price.”
Rory O'Driscoll May 22, 2025 ▶ 7:53 Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 22, 2025 bullish
Prediction Held up
O'Driscoll: Chime will expand into offering loans and cross-sell products
“They're going to add, you know, loans, which they don't really do a lot of today and all the other cross sell stuff that every financial services company does at scale.”
Rory O'Driscoll May 22, 2025 ▶ 3:56 Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Opinion
Lessin: Chime is not an important or paradigm-shifting company
“Is Chime an important company? I just don't see it, right? Like, is it, you know, it's good company? Like, they provided some banking products to unbanked people or underbanked people. I get it. It's not bad. They did a good job. They built a good app. But lik…”
Sam Lessin Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 31:10 Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 5, 2025 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Lemkin: Menlo Ventures will 10x to 15x its investment in Chime
“They said they did the Series B, right? So they did the Series B at 203 hundred. Maybe we can figure it out on the fly. They're going to, this will be a nine. There'll be some dilution. They'll 10 or 15 X their money, right? That'll be a fun returner or more t…”
Jason Lemkin Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 23:36 Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 5, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Lemkin: VCs should sell Revolut and Chime private shares immediately
“I would probably sell Revolut and Chime right now.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 29:27 Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 14, 2025 positive
Opinion
Tenev: Revolut is more impressive than Chime due to product velocity
“I think I'm more impressed by Revolut. You know, Revolut's got product velocity, international scale strong founder, you know, impressive guy.”
Vlad Tenev Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 40:52 Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 14, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tenev: Chime targets paycheck-to-paycheck customers who do not invest
“Chime we don't butt into very much either because they're targeting sort of paycheck to paycheck customers. Their customers aren't really investing.”
Vlad Tenev Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 41:08 Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 21, 2025 neutral
Insight
O'Driscoll: Chime's valuation is capped at $11B by US bank efficiency
“Now it's at eleven billion dollars, despite the U.S. Being, you know, I don't know in the day, 10 X larger GDP country, it's, Chime is only an eleven billion dollar market cap company because, and I think that speaks to They were playing in a less profit-rich …”
Rory O'Driscoll Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 42:01 Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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