Mercury, every mention
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every year anyone Seema Amble 12Immad Akhund 11Alex Rampell 3Peter Yang 2Sanket Pathak 1Benedict Evans 1Angela Strange 1
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OpenClaw, Claude Code, and the Future of Software | Peter Yang on The a16z Show
- ▶ 2:17 Peter Yang It, like, pulls analytics for me across, um, YouTube and, like, my Mercury banking account.
- ▶ 6:28 Peter Yang Um, but I do think, like, um, like, ever since I set up all these apps, like Mercury, MCP, and all this kind of crap on my open call, like, I don't actually open those apps much anymore, you know.
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 10:52 Alex Rampell And, um, one of the key lessons that I had as an investor is, um, you know, and Mercury is kind of a great example of the tortoise that beat and is, you know, still beating the hare. 3 times in the scene
How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
- ▶ 5:21 unnamed speaker Um, you know, so many of these fintech companies decided, I forget the exact timing, but to go kind of full stack, you know, so you saw, you know, uh, fintech companies like SoFi, you know, buy banks, you know, Lending Club, uh, I think…
Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury's Immad Akhund
- ▶ 0:37 Seema Amble He's the co-founder and CEO of Mercury, which offers fintech and banking products for startups. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20 Seema Amble It'd be great if you could just walk us through how did you, um, you know, found Mercury and, and what was the background to, to starting the company? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:18 Immad Akhund Um, and then there's, there's a set of things like Mercury, uh, where there are lots of incumbents, and it's not like we were serving a set of customers that didn't have bank accounts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:15 Seema Amble Um, so you, you were working on this for a year and a half and during that one year and a half of building, what did, um, what did the company look like in just in terms of it was you and who else working with you? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:32 Immad Akhund I wouldn't say Mercury is in that group. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:46 Immad Akhund I think the hardest part of Mercury is always like winning people's trust because it's, you know, using a startup to do your banking is, is, is quite a, uh, difficult thing to convince people of. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:07 Immad Akhund So, you know, we hired our first salesperson, John Hardy, who's still at Mercury, uh, and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:04 Seema Amble I'd be curious just to learn a little more about the, the pricing journey you guys had at Mercury and, um, and you know, who and how you made those decisions around what to charge customers. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:41 Immad Akhund Basically with Mercury, I was like, okay, I can't build this without raising money because you can't get a bank partnership without raising significant money.
Any Company Can Offer Financial Services
- ▶ 11:51 Angela Strange So for instance, Mercury, which is a small business or startup bank that focuses on fast account opening and providing great cash flow visibility into your business.
Founding Stories: Synapse
- ▶ 48:43 Sanket Pathak All the way to, um, being able to do business banking extremely well, like Mercury being one of the customers that we've been extremely excited about.
a16z Podcast | When Software Eats Cars
- ▶ 8:39 Benedict Evans Um, but on the other hand, if you order like an Uber black car, you don't decide whether it's going to be a Mercury or a, uh, whether it's going to be a Lincoln or a Cadillac or a Mercedes.