Angela Strange

25 statements across 9 episodes · 16 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 21, 2018 by Angela Strange · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Jan 21, 2018 positive
Assertion Supported
Strange: Nova Credit enables immigrants to port foreign credit scores
“Or there's a company Nova, which is connecting credit bureaus all around the world, such that if you came here from India or from Mexico, you'd actually be able to port your credit score and start at a much better basis than if you were starting from zero.”
Angela Strange Jan 21, 2018 ▶ 15:01 The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services
Jan 21, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Strange: Time spent on LendUp's loan slider correlates with creditworthiness
“And so LendUp will take the data to see how long do I take to slide my slider from a 150 dollars to 200 dollars. And the time of consideration there has actually been shown to be indicative of how good a credit score someone could be.”
Angela Strange Jan 21, 2018 ▶ 14:46 The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services
Jan 21, 2018
Assertion Contradicted
Strange: 50% of Americans use alternative financial services over traditional banks
“It might surprise you to learn that 50% of the American population would come up with an entirely different set of names. And that's because they think of cash checking, or prepaid debit cards, remittances, payday loans, and come up with names like Check and G…”
Angela Strange Jan 21, 2018 ▶ 0:30 The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services
Jan 21, 2018 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Strange: 90 million Americans are mispriced by traditional credit scoring
“By some estimates, there are ninety million Americans that are mispriced.”
Angela Strange Jan 21, 2018 ▶ 13:59 The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services
Nov 30, 2018
Disclosure
An OBD dongle placed Angela Strange in the bottom 1% of drivers
“I happily stuck mine in, drove around for a couple of weeks, and then I got this email at the end of two weeks which, can you not, said, Angela Strange, you are in the bottom one percent of drivers.”
Angela Strange Nov 30, 2018 ▶ 10:36 Managing Risk and Uncertainty: The Future of Insurance
Nov 30, 2018 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Insurance underwriting will shift toward highly personalized risk scoring
“We're gonna move to a world where risk is scored in a much, much more personal level.”
Angela Strange Nov 30, 2018 ▶ 24:31 Managing Risk and Uncertainty: The Future of Insurance
Jan 21, 2020 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Strange: Building a consumer banking stack traditionally takes two years, 12 partnerships
“So now we're looking at probably over a dozen partnerships, close to two years to ink these deals, and you've built absolutely nothing new that you wanted to bring to market.”
Angela Strange Jan 21, 2020 ▶ 8:34 Any Company Can Offer Financial Services
Oct 14, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Strange: Moov's open-source community resolved 1,600 payment edge cases
“And that's what MOVE's done with many of you in this room, including payments engineers at some of the largest banks that have run trillions of dollars through the MOVE libraries, and these are mortgage payments, auto loans all sorts of other payment types tha…”
Angela Strange Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 14:58 The Open Source Movement in Fintech
Oct 14, 2021
Insight
Strange: Fintech is default local, unlike global software platforms
“I often say that fintech is default local versus default global, and what do I mean by that? I wouldn't invest in Google for Canada, Google for Brazil, Google for France, like, that's just Google, but I would invest in a bank for each of those reasons, regions…”
Angela Strange Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 9:41 The Open Source Movement in Fintech
Oct 14, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Strange: Cloud infrastructure enables any company to offer banking services
“And really what this did is it took banking away from something that only a bank could do to something that any company can do.”
Angela Strange Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 3:01 The Open Source Movement in Fintech
Oct 14, 2021 bullish
Insight
Strange: Open-source primitives act as Lego blocks for banking
“Essentially, Lego, but for banking. They'd be composable. You could combine any combination of any piece that you wanted to into any use case imaginable.”
Angela Strange Oct 14, 2021 ▶ 4:10 The Open Source Movement in Fintech
Jan 27, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Strange: Tech-enabled compliance will become a competitive advantage in 2023
“I believe that in 2023, doing compliance well, tech enabled is going to become a competitive advantage versus an annoying thing that you have to do in the background.”
Angela Strange Jan 27, 2023 ▶ 10:33 2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
Dec 16, 2024 negative
Opinion
Strange: US efficiently adds regulation but never repeals old rules
“And I think in this country, we have a system where we efficiently add regulation, but we never take away regulation.”
Angela Strange Dec 16, 2024 ▶ 0:27 When Regulation Becomes Code
Dec 16, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Strange: Regulation is a top cost for banking, healthcare, and insurance
“Regulation is one of the biggest costs to existing companies, banks and insurance companies and healthcare companies specifically, and a huge burden to new entrants coming in and to innovation.”
Angela Strange Dec 16, 2024 ▶ 0:16 When Regulation Becomes Code
Dec 16, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Strange: SBA loans take 90 days due to 1,000-page compliance documentation
“Many businesses get loans from the SBA. It takes, on average, 90 days. Why? Part of that is there's a thousand-plus page documentation about how do you make this loan compliant, right?”
Angela Strange Dec 16, 2024 ▶ 9:13 When Regulation Becomes Code
Dec 16, 2024 positive
Insight
Angela Strange: AI Compliance Startups Overcome Hallucinations by Fine-Tuning and Showing Work
“I think the two things that come up with the blockers where the smart founders have gotten around are, one, how do I prevent this from hallucinating? And I think the two ways are, one, showing the work, And then two, proving that you have fine-tuned your model…”
Angela Strange Dec 16, 2024 ▶ 6:57 When Regulation Becomes Code
Dec 16, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Strange: Regulation will become software code in 2025
“In 20, 25 regulation is going to become code.”
Angela Strange Dec 16, 2024 ▶ 0:12 When Regulation Becomes Code
Dec 16, 2024 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Strange: Federal agencies enforce 50,000 regulations, up from 10,000 in 1970
“There are 50,000 different rules and regs across different agencies, and that's up from 10,000 in 1970.”
Angela Strange Dec 16, 2024 ▶ 0:00 When Regulation Becomes Code
Dec 16, 2024 positive
Insight
Strange: Automating tasks done by dozens of employees provides AI entry wedge
“And then .2 would be any area where a company needs to hire, you know, dozen plus people to do a task where those people would rather do something a little bit more strategic. That can be a very interesting wedge in for a co-pilot type co-pilot type opportunit…”
Angela Strange Dec 16, 2024 ▶ 9:36 When Regulation Becomes Code
Dec 16, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Angela Strange: AI Compliance Startups Achieving Unusually Fast ACV Growth
“It is moving a lot more quickly than I would have thought. You know, I've been investing in and around the space for the last 10 years, and the momentum and even just the ACVs that some early companies are getting is, is quite fast.”
Angela Strange Dec 16, 2024 ▶ 6:44 When Regulation Becomes Code
Jan 14, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Strange: AI agents could increase software revenue 10x
“You know, is that going to increase software revenue two X? It could potentially increase it 10 X.”
Angela Strange Jan 14, 2025 ▶ 15:07 How AI is Reshaping Labor Markets: A $Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Explained
Dec 26, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Angela Strange: AI will parallelize financial workflows like mortgage underwriting
“Workflows will finally become parallelized. No more bouncing between screens, cut pasting data. For instance, your mortgage team could see the 400 plus tasks that are needed to underwrite your loan, do them in parallel, and even have agents do some of the more…”
Angela Strange Dec 26, 2025 ▶ 5:11 AI Is Coming For These 3 Industries In 2026 (a16z Big Ideas)
Dec 26, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Angela Strange: Next-gen fintech winners will be 10x larger by capturing labor
“The new winners here will be 10 X bigger. Not only because those software categories are bigger, but because software is able to consume a lot of the labor that humans didn't want to do anyways, or that banks or insurance companies couldn't hire for fast enoug…”
Angela Strange Dec 26, 2025 ▶ 5:51 AI Is Coming For These 3 Industries In 2026 (a16z Big Ideas)
Dec 26, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Strange: AI adoption raised mortgage servicing margins from 5% to 50%
“And those companies in some areas like mortgage servicing have been able to turn areas of their business from five percent margin businesses to 50% margin businesses.”
Angela Strange Dec 26, 2025 ▶ 7:48 AI Is Coming For These 3 Industries In 2026 (a16z Big Ideas)
Aug 20, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Strange: 40% of a16z app investments back international founders
“Like, we actually ran the stats, and out of our apps, 40% of our investments were in international founders. You know, half of them were based here, half of them were based in other countries.”
Angela Strange Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 42:47 The Opportunity for Global Founders
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