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every year anyone Angela Strange 33Alex Rampell 22Erik Torenberg 14Max Levchin 13Keith Rabois 4Michael Copeland 3Terry Angelos 1Sonal Chokshi 1Jason Gardner 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Affirm comes up
Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 1:02 Erik Torenberg So you guys go way back, having co-founded a firm and met well, well before then, you guys are pioneers in fintech.
- ▶ 7:20 Max Levchin But I was trying to find the original email between the two of us where we start mentioning what becomes a firm eventually, and it's dated April, 2011.
- ▶ 12:27 Alex Rampell Well, that, that was, I mean, I think I called it thumb by, by, uh, by accident, just given the, the almost, uh, almost name of a firm.
- ▶ 17:17 Erik Torenberg I want you to take us both back to memory lane as to the beginning of Affirm and how you guys navigated the idea maze of what would eventually become Affirm. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:41 Alex Rampell Uh, his sister used to work for me, so I remember, uh, interviewing him in the context of a firm, although I think at the time he was still Expedite. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:38 Max Levchin And we were definitely meandering through the grade-nothing period for a while. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:46 Max Levchin But before we get there, a firm briefly flirted with being a payment provider to the online educational facilities, which we ran out of kicking and screaming because the reason they're willing to pay these enormous MDRs is because the… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:16 Erik Torenberg Because fast forwarding a bit, a lot of people hear a firm today and, you know, one quick thing they think is, you know, buy now, pay later. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:15 Alex Rampell But, um, Affirm, the, the merchants actually want you to own the customer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:20 Erik Torenberg You know, we've been covering some, uh, a firm history while we're doing a historic episode.
How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
- ▶ 14:49 unnamed speaker Affirm is a twenty billion dollar company.
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- ▶ 22:10 Alex Rampell It's not like, you know, I started a firm and we had a crisis.
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 36:29 Keith Rabois Affirm, which we were both involved in, um, had both. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:07 Keith Rabois Um, yeah, actually we sort of helped seed fund it back at Affirm, um, back when they were starting the company, Affirm did a corporate, you know, sort of investment. 2 times in the scene
Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
- ▶ 17:12 Alex Rampell From like the buying and selling, which is like, I mean, part of how we, we became friendly is through a firm, right?
Software is Eating Labor
- ▶ 21:35 Alex Rampell So go back to this, um, you know, I co-funded a company called Affirm. 2 times in the scene
Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner
- ▶ 27:15 Jason Gardner And then we began to land a bunch of other customers like Affirm.
a16z Podcast | B2B2C
- ▶ 0:55 Sonal Chokshi And Alex Rampell, who co-founded TrialPay and also co-founded financial services company Affirm, which offers installment loans and monthly payments to customers at the point of sale and is a successful case of when B to B to C does work.
- ▶ 4:08 Alex Rampell If you can get them right, contrast that with the other company that I co-founded a firm where we get paid to acquire customers in contrast to every other lending company where they have to pay a lot of money to acquire customers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:14 Alex Rampell For a firm, a merchant, Casper has an incentive for us to work with Martine, because we know how to work with him to score his risk, to collect from him, to say you owe us money. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building Affirm, and Why Max Levchin Has Watched Seven Samurai 100-Plus Times
- ▶ 0:10 Michael Copeland Now he's back in the world of payments and finance with his latest startup, Affirm. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:41 Angela Strange Why don't we start by talking about Affirm and payments, finance, an area that's quite complex that you spent a long time in. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47 Angela Strange You've chosen a pretty specific angle at Affirm. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:03 Angela Strange It's that they don't like these bank brands and are really looking for what's that next thing that's going to be fast, transparent, mobile, some of the characteristics of a firm that you talked about. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:17 Angela Strange We are, we are proud investors of a proud investors of a firm. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:42 Angela Strange One of the things I think is really special and unique about Affirm is how you're fitting into what we like to call the on-demand economy. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:59 Angela Strange You're known for lots of things, but one of the, one of the most, uh, well-known is just fraud at PayPal, and world-class fraud-fighting team, which really enabled PayPal to grow into what it is today, and you've gotten some of the band… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:42 Angela Strange And now at a firm, you can help me out when I want to buy larger purchases. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 24:10 Alex Rampell The underwriting might have some technology around it, but I think there's a big opportunity, and this is what we're doing with Affirm as well, which is, can we reinvent all of that stuff, but just reinventing it is not enough.
The Oral History of TrialPay -- Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
- ▶ 37:16 Terry Angelos And by the way, like, in the US at least, debit cards are, um, a very large percentage of transactions, and so that credit point, um, is becoming, you know, less and less of a, of a, of a, of a use case, and so, uh, why can't you have…
The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech
- ▶ 8:53 Alex Rampell This is actually a company that's in our portfolio that actually I co-founded called Affirm.
- ▶ 13:05 Alex Rampell So a firm just does point of sale loans.
- ▶ 25:00 Alex Rampell Affirm, our, our insight, uh, was 2 times in the scene