Wells Fargo

8 statements across 7 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 16, 2017 by Alex Rampell · said 42 times in 21 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Jul 16, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rampell: Startups are picking off every traditional bank service category
“Financing, credit, home lending, everything that you could possibly imagine, and every one of these categories is being picked off by a startup, and the startup is basically just focusing on that one sector.”
Alex Rampell Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 1:48 What Happens When Mobile (Really) Hits the Wallet
Oct 26, 2017 negative
Opinion
Rampell: Wells Fargo's legacy tech is held together with scotch tape
“It's been kind of tied together with, ah, with bubble gum and scotch tape and paper clips for about 3040 years as they've continued merging and buying other banks.”
Alex Rampell Oct 26, 2017 ▶ 2:18 The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech
Oct 26, 2017 bullish
Insight
Rampell: Fintech startups are unbundling banks category by category like Craigslist
“Along have come many, many startups, and what the startups have done is, one by one, they've picked off a particular category. They've taken this broad horizontal marketplace, kind of like Craigslist, and category by category, they've attacked these different …”
Alex Rampell Oct 26, 2017 ▶ 2:43 The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Evans notes Apple provides payment endpoints rather than competing with banks
“On the one hand, they look like a great partner, because they've not gone and built their own payment platform, they're not trying to compete with Visa or Master They're not trying to compete with Chase or Wells Fargo or Lloyd's or, you know, any of the retail…”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:51 a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levchin: Modern fintechs will replace traditional banks for direct deposits
“There's definitely going to be several probably winners that take the spot in your brain that belongs to Wells Fargo for your parents, the sort of a place where your money goes into a direct deposit account of some sort that takes care of your billing mostly a…”
Max Levchin Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:16 a16z Podcast | Building Affirm, and Why Max Levchin Has Watched Seven Samurai 100-Plus Times
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rampell: Wells Fargo will match mobile banking startup apps within a decade
“I'm sure that there's some mobile bank startup that's going to have a much more beautiful app than Wells Fargo's, but Wells Fargo within the next seven to 10 years will come up with something as good, and they've got that distribution.”
Alex Rampell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:23 a16z Podcast | The Movement of Money
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Contradicted
Haun prosecuted Wells Fargo executives for stealing from deceased customers
“When I was a prosecutor, I prosecuted Wells Fargo's executives for taking dead people's accounts and draining them of money. They basically found out who hadn't used their account for, you know, many years, and then they would drain the money to their own pers…”
Katie Haun Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:16 a16z Podcast | The Regulatory Landscape for Crypto
Jul 12, 2019 bullish
Disclosure
Pathak: Synapse CEO uses only customer fintech cards, no legacy banks
“At this point, I don't have an account with Bank of America, Chase, Wells Fargo, anyone. I literally only have my customers' cards in my pocket.”
Sanket Pathak Jul 12, 2019 ▶ 39:18 Founding Stories: Synapse
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