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Morris: Financial services product bundling is a ruse that fails
“Another hypothesis here, Harry, is that bundling doesn't work. It's a canard. It's a ruse. It's a justification to buy things that doesn't pay off.”
Morris: Senior bank CEOs kick the can on digital transformation
“Going from an analog company to a digital one, that transformation is really painful. It will take years. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to hand it off to my forty-seven-year-old guy who's coming up behind me, and I'll let him do it, and I'm going to…”
Nigel Morris: Private equity investing is much easier than venture capital
“Private equity is much easier than venture.”
Morris: Venture capital is full of boring people with identical backgrounds
“There's a lot of really boring people in it, Harry. I want people that, you know, quirky, funny, orthogonal, stimulating, thinking people. You know, I'd love to see more of that. So many of us come from this classic, went to business school, strategy consultin…”
Morris: Venture ecosystem is replete with mental health struggles
“Our world of venture, of entrepreneurs, I think is replete with people who are going through these kinds of difficulties, even without COVID”
Morris: Bank executives no longer believe they can outcompete fintech giants
“Five years ago, the people were saying, this is a flash in the pan, this is not going to work, we are better at technology, we have these customer relationships, look, we've got all these branches. This whole fintech thing is tulips in Amsterdam. I think there…”