regulators

“I also think that the regulators are people too, and some of them are late adopters, but some of them are early adopters or even innovators, and what you have to do as a startup in any regulatory complex environment is find those regulators that are the innova…”

“I think we've seen ICOs or ICO fever really diminish as the year has gone by. I think we're getting to a healthier place, and largely due to the increased interest from regulators in the space. I think that's been very positive.”

“The regulators are highly incented to get a buyer for this business this weekend, and so going back to oh eight, as the example, they're, they will pull out all the stops in order to get it to the Likely and best outcome possible for American insurers.”

“It was just really hard for regulators and others to accept that Facebook would be at the center of a protocol for money for the internet, and that's why we devolved so much power into this consortium that we didn't control, that we're just a member of, but th…”

“I think the alternative is actually that you push the entire industry to be on the fringe and on the margin and all of these transactions become peer to peer and more opaque to regulation, which is absolutely the worst outcome for everyone involved, including …”

“Regulators, I've been impressed with how up to speed they've gotten on crypto, and they've really taken time to learn about it.”

“The people that got sucked into this perception game that FTX was playing that, you know, the politicians, the regulators, the investors, they all now are trying to just sweep it under the rug and say, oh, I didn't know about this financial fraud. It wasn't ju…”

“I think you're doing an acquisition under ten billion, unless it's super strategic. I don't think it gets a long look from the regulators. I think those flow through and they happen pretty quickly.”

“I think, I do think the regulators got this one wrong, and maybe even they got it wrong, who knows, because of, this is why the Google HubSpot thing might be worse, and maybe it's how they were lobbied or manipulated, because I don't think it's competitive.”

“So far as I can tell, I think the large M&A transactions are mostly getting deeply investigated and oftentimes blocked by the regulators. That political environment will change eventually.”

“What I really found is, is actually very bad advice, right, because whenever you speak with regulators yourself, whenever you explain exactly in plain English what we do, how we do it, because you build it yourself, or I build it myself, right, I can explain i…”

“Oh, what I really learned is it's so whenever you want to build a bank, you'd rather get a banking license before you have customers. So that's kind of, you know, key lesson, because as soon as you have many customers, millions of customers, tens of millions o…”

“The best thing you can do as a company, certainly of our size, is you engage directly with the regulators and speak very clearly to, this is a good idea, this is a bad idea, we'd like to offer you some feedback.”

“I think in financial services and healthcare, The only way to build something that will last the test of time and that will truly go mainstream is to work with regulators, to do it clean, to do it right.”

“The issue with, the issue is like the bigger you get, I guess more scared the regulators are of you because if you succeed, they have no upside. They don't get a bigger bonus. But if you fail, like they might lose their jobs. So it's ultimately like, you know,…”