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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where SWIFT comes up on All-In, 20VC, Latent Space, the Startup Ideas Podcast, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
They Called The Trade Wars & China's Housing Crash | Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 4 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 38:56 Nikhil Kamath I would put stablecoin as dollar moving away from SWIFT to a better transfer mechanism, but essentially the dollar.
Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:20 Boris Cherny And then, um, my second question is, uh, I created this, like, empty code base that was, uh, cloud desktop app rewritten in Swift. 3 times in the scene
Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 31:56 Nikhil Kamath The government, very rightly so, is disincentivized to provide an off-ramp for a stable coin that is backed by the American dollar in a way, by virtue of what happened when the US sanctioned Russia and the SWIFT.
- ▶ 49:07 Brian Armstrong We had, I don't know, Visa and Swift and, you know, um, and here we have stable coin, um,
AI Apps Are Making $10K/Month. Here's Exactly How.
- ▶ 40:47 unnamed speaker And it's because at this point with AI models, Opus 4.8, right, especially if you're building apps in Swift too, 3 times in the scene
The First App I Ever Built Makes $25K/Month
- ▶ 6:24 unnamed speaker I use Superwall for paywalls and A-B testing, different experiments, and it is built in Swift natively.
Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
- ▶ 59:10 Riley Brown Um, if you want to, you can also try and build a mobile app in Swift. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 11:26 Alessio Fanelli And I was like, let's just rebuild the whole thing in Swift and just recreated the whole thing in Swift. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:26 Felix Rieseberg Like not just in Swift, because this is one thing, like it's pretty easy if you, I think our current models are quite capable of taking an Electron app and replicating it Swift. 2 times in the scene
How to bet on yourself (without venture capital) · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 3:38 William Hockey They build the website, they build the consumer marketing, and we're going to handle everything kind of behind the scenes that has to deal with the federal reserve or TCH or the card networks or swift.
Ryan Lovell – Chainlink: The Infrastructure Pipes for Multi-Chain Finance (EP.491)
- ▶ 17:19 Ryan Lovell A delivery versus payment swift message, why would you change that?
- ▶ 23:57 Ryan Lovell One of the big industry initiatives that we've worked on with huge CSDs, banks and asset managers, the likes of DTCC, Euroclear, Swift, Wellington, UBS.
Pain, Power & The Game Nobody Wins | Chamath Palihapitiya x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 45:17 Nikhil Kamath If you're trying to, like, bring efficiency into bank transfers, and SWIFT is failing, and all of that, with you, a hundred percent.
Stop Shipping AI Slop. Design with Weavy AI, Claude etc.
- ▶ 50:39 unnamed speaker And I feel like in the past six months, like, Claude has gotten, I mean, I guess all the models, but at least from what I use, Claude's gotten so much better at Swift and iOS.
How I Use Clawdbot to Run My Business and Life 24/7
- ▶ 27:44 unnamed speaker So let's say I give you my prompt for making Swift apps.
How I Built a $13K/Month SaaS
- ▶ 17:39 unnamed speaker As well as for marketing, uh, LFS is a native Mac app, so it's built with Swift.
The Future of Email: Superhuman CTO on Your Inbox As the Real AI Agent (Not ChatGPT) — Loïc Houssier
- ▶ 32:12 Loïc Houssier So we are basically not doing React Native, we are doing Swift, we are doing Kotlin, because we want the app to feel
- ▶ 59:12 Loïc Houssier We were, we were a go shop on the back end, and, um, everyone, like, working on iOS and Swift were like, eh, not that good at the time.
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:24 Jonathan Siddharth Write a, ah, a B to B marketplace app that connects, ah, doctors with patients, and write it on for Android, ah, with Kotlin Java, write it for iOS with, ah, Swift, and write it on the web, like with Next.js or something, right?
Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy)
- ▶ 54:33 Zach Abrams You know, today, that's swift, settle, swift, settle, swift, settle. 3 times in the scene
The Best Vibe Coding Tools in 2026
- ▶ 14:36 unnamed speaker And if you're doing a Swift app, then you're going to have to do the Google play version and that's two different code bases.
Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
- ▶ 1:19:15 David Sacks They cut off access to Swift. 2 times in the scene
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:49 Hemant Taneja If you think about the last five years, we've had wars, we had a pandemic, we, we had a situation where because of wars, we actually US, you know, kicked Russia out of swift.
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- ▶ 58:58 unnamed speaker Bring in GPS, bring in, you know, all the other tools that are available just in the iOS, like Swift, like, you know, developer kits, uh, the SDKs.
Sanjeev Sanyal On Why India Has No Big 4, Regulating AI & Ending Population Control
- ▶ 40:44 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, and my fear is, uh, for example, the swift system of was created by the U S and this also, you know, it might be ending that the world might adopt a system where that is dominated by the U S
Brex’s Road to IPO and The Golden Age of M&A · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris
- ▶ 12:42 Shawn Wang The whole story is Chris Ladner, industry legends, LLVM, Swift,
⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- ▶ 50:22 Ben Holmes I was trying to use it to build a Swift app because I touch Xcode with a 10 foot pole. 3 times in the scene
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:15 Andrej Karpathy So I built this, ah, iOS app, and I don't, I can't actually program in Swift, 2 times in the scene
The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- ▶ 44:26 Shawn Wang How does this feel rolling this out as compared to like Swift?
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
- ▶ 59:10 unnamed speaker I mean, even Swift, like, honestly, I mean, even Swift works kind of well from the states to the emerging markets, right? 2 times in the scene
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:36 unnamed speaker And, uh, and his name, his payment just got blocked somewhere in the middle because it's going through the swift network and bounced back after two months. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:38 unnamed speaker You know, the swift messages only contain a 140 characters. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:15 unnamed speaker So, so you have the idea, hey, I want to reinvent the SWIFT network, I want to change payments, and at that point, before you build products, you go and raise money?
- ▶ 42:37 unnamed speaker Uh, and we were thinking we can do a lot better over the SWIFT network and we can do a lot better than the Tencent Treasury Department. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:30 unnamed speaker To build, uh, alternative, uh, to SWIFT, the largest global payment network.
- ▶ 1:28:07 unnamed speaker Like when the culture is, you know, we, you know, we had a lot of issues, uh, you know, cause when early the first four or five years, we hired a lot of people that with a lot of great experiences, you know, they, they, from a bank, from…
How Whop Is Making $1.2+ Billion For Creators · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 48:04 Jack Sharky Host on PlanetScale, MySQL database, our front ends all Next.js and React and TypeScript, and then we have a Swift app and an Android app in Kotlin.
How to build SaaS App in a weekend using AI (Steal This)
- ▶ 21:18 Greg Isenberg Now that's not a, React Native isn't, you know, Swift, right? 2 times in the scene
Why LPs Are Using STABLECOINS to INVEST in Startups | Avlok Kohli on TBPN April 4th
- ▶ 18:13 Avlok Kohli And so we actually see a, um, a huge amount of demand from international LPs trying to move money into the U S because if you've ever tried to try to send a swift, God bless you.
No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
- ▶ 26:26 Thomas Dohmke Like at the end of the day, you know, whether you're building an app with, you know, Swift or Kotlin or React Native, what does it matter?
Nic Carter talks crypto, meme coins, and the regulatory environment.
- ▶ 26:52 Nic Carter If we create a messaging layer alongside the settlement layer, uh, you know, like that's what Swift is to wires, right?
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:11 Mike Krieger I don't know if it still is, um, because I saw the potential and then, uh, even GPT four came out before it, they had multimodal and I was trying to do Swift with it.
The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private
- ▶ 17:00 David Friedberg If you were to kind of build the financial system from scratch today, we've got Swift, we've got banks that store assets, we have credit cards and these credit card networks, then we've got transaction service providers that sit on top of…
He sold his startup to Stripe for $1.1B—in just 2.5 years. | Zach Abrams, Co-Founder of Bridge · PMF Show
- ▶ 33:20 Zach Abrams So the stablecoin replaces a swift rail. 2 times in the scene
Five $10M+ Ideas (from a guy who's done it 3 times)
- ▶ 1:01:46 Sheel Mohnot And there's something called Swift, which is how banks do it.
Nik Storonsky, Revolut Founder: What Revolut Needs to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation | E1233 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:13 Nik Storonsky Uh, competing with SWIFT on corresponding banking system.
Rajiv Sikri Former MEA Secretary On India-US Relations, Pakistan's Decline & Bangladesh
- ▶ 46:03 Rajiv Sikri Uh, you know, we, we cannot, uh, uh, send or receive money through SWIFT and other normal banking channels.
- ▶ 55:31 Rajiv Sikri Uh, they have, uh, control of the currency, dollar, the swift, the stock market.
Vercel's VP of Product on how to use v0 to build your own ideas (Step-by-Step Guide)
- ▶ 27:55 Lee Robinson They knows everything about Swift.
Ingo Uytdehaage, Adyen | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 4:27 unnamed speaker Like specifically the networks like Swift, the banks themselves, what role do they, why do these people exist?
- ▶ 13:08 Ingo Uytdehaage Um, if it's about indeed cross border type of transactions, we still work with relatively old systems like Swift, um, with all their challenges. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:56 Jason Calacanis Um, and then you have this alliance starting, uh, the BRICS has expanded and added a bunch of countries, and there's talk about, hey, maybe SWIFT, we're gonna get off of SWIFT, and we're gonna create our own BRICS version of SWIFT. 7 times in the scene
I can’t believe we built an IOS app with AI in under 33 min (V0, Cursor AI, Xcode)
- ▶ 3:53 Riley Brown In this case, we're not using Replit, we're using Xcode instead, and Xcode allows us to make iOS apps, and, ah, Xcode uses Swift, or iOS is built on Swift, and like I, you know this, I don't know how to write code, but I do know, I have… 2 times in the scene
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:58 Shaun Maguire People don't understand how much this is happening right now, especially after the war in Ukraine, where US sanctioned Russia, Russia basically moved off swift.
Samir Vasavada: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires | E1171 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:41 Samir Vasavada School's, like, pretty easy, and, like, the iOS programming language, Swift, it kind of came out recently, and it just started taking off, and we're like, let's build apps for small businesses. 2 times in the scene
Darkest Indian SCAMS - Jamtara, Aadhaar Data, And Dark Web Secrets I Rahul Sasi I The Neon Show
- ▶ 12:06 Rahul Sasi So what they do is what they did is, um, swift protocol is the protocol. 2 times in the scene
Regulating Crypto in the Name of National Competitiveness
- ▶ 4:29 Emily Choi A lot of these systems like Swift are decades and decades old.
The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)
- ▶ 1:00:06 Michael Lopp I code all, I don't call all the time, but I'm practicing something in Swift right now because of reasons.
The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
- ▶ 55:43 Jeremy Howard I, you know, I admired him from afar with LLVM and Swift and whatever, and so I saw him walk into the 5 times in the scene
E144: Biden targets Elon, BRICS challenges the West, Tiger hit piece & more
- ▶ 35:38 Jason Calacanis And Swift. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:43 Chamath Palihapitiya And if you look at Swift in July, you know, the Swift volumes on us dollars was the largest ever.
E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
- ▶ 57:46 Chamath Palihapitiya SWIFT, which is sort of like the international payments backbone, the share of Yuan transactions briefly rose above three percent. 3 times in the scene
Ep 57: Balaji Srinivasan on the Severity of the Bank Crisis and the Future of Bitcoin · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 28:23 Balaji Srinivasan They're trying to block the exit to Bitcoin or B, they actually try to stop fed wire, ACH, swift chips going into Florida state state level banks, which would show their hand and approve that DeSantis was right, that the CBDC would be used…
E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee
- ▶ 24:20 David Sacks We've excluded them from the swift banking system. 4 times in the scene
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 1:01:14 David Sacks And, um, yes, it is true that the bricks would love to get off of the dollar because we are now using the dollar and the financial system and swift as a, as a geopolitical tool and a weapon.
University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $5000 Prize Money (#396)
- ▶ 30:29 unnamed speaker That's why the current solution is literally paying these people in US dollars cash and or sending slow and often delayed swift transfers.
How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu
- ▶ 57:41 Crystal Widjaja And we were like, yes, I absolutely love makeup, but I also am badass at writing Swift code.
Ben Forman – Opportunities in DeFi (EP.256, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.03)
- ▶ 19:25 Ben Forman Most of the code for things like Swift were written in the 19 seventies and eighties.
How To Invest Like An Optimist With Morgan Housel
- ▶ 54:34 Greg Isenberg I had somebody, um, you know, I put out this thread explaining what Swift was right as the sanctions were coming out and it went quite viral. 2 times in the scene
DROPPING OUT Of College To Building India's Leading CYBER SECURITY Company ft. Rahul Sasi
- ▶ 17:34 Rahul Sasi This is the username and password to a large bank's SIFT server. 2 times in the scene
Will this carbon market boom be different?
- ▶ 33:25 Nat Bullard You know, by the standards of, like, global finance, blockchains don't really scale the way that, say, SWIFT, which everybody has now heard of thanks to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which processes forty-two million financial messages a…
James Aitken – Market Implications of the Situation in Ukraine (Capital Allocators, EP.239)
- ▶ 10:52 Ted Seides There's talk about SWIFT. 2 times in the scene
E70: EMERGENCY POD! Russia invades Ukraine: Reactions, Putin's ambition, Biden's response and more
- ▶ 1:01:43 David Sacks There was talk about sanctioning him personally, or, and he also did not remove Russia from the SWIFT
Solana Billionaires, MFM Goes Viral on TikTok, Right to Be Forgotten, and More
- ▶ 1:08:01 Shaan Puri They were like, look, uh, you know, the way the international banking system works today is off this thing called the Swift standard.
How to Resurrect Innovation in the Enterprise // Amr Awadallah, Google (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 31:08 unnamed speaker Um, are you able to, like, you guys just hired Chris Latner, and you're doing, you know, who's the father of Swift, and you're doing Swift with TensorFlow, and that seems to be a direction going forward in the future, and they, I'm using… 3 times in the scene
Founding Stories: Synapse
- ▶ 3:45 Sanket Pathak I remember my dad sending me, like, a little bit of money during, ah, on my birthday, and they froze my Swiftwire until I would show up to the bank branch and talk about the purpose of the funds, and then they released the money.
Founding Stories: Anchorage
- ▶ 2:39 Diogo Mónica Worked on integration with ACH, with Swift.
a16z Podcast | The Business of Cybercrime
- ▶ 22:07 Joel de la Garza Koreans and what they've been doing in terms of the swift transfer thefts and those sorts of things, that takes on very much its own special flavor, right?
a16z Podcast | The Future of Money and Monetization
- ▶ 9:28 Kristo Käärmann Who have decided that it's better for them to recommend TransferWise to their customers than offer them the international payment product of their, their own, the SWIFT payment, that they can't really support to every single country around…
a16z Podcast | The Rise of the Quasi-IPO
- ▶ 15:23 Benedict Evans Now, of course, you can say, quite rightly, well, there were no ten-year-old internet companies in nineteen-nine, um, just as there are nobody with 15 years' experience in coding Swift right now.
a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
- ▶ 8:06 Benedict Evans And then, obviously, the final thing is a new programming language, um, called Swift, and I think John Gruber said on Twitter during the event that basically a third of the room was sitting, going completely quiet, saying, I have… 4 times in the scene
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:21 Ralph Goody So we've got iOS, Swift, Objective-C, Android, all Java and Kotlin, Web, React, and then Windows.
- ▶ 58:07 Ralph Goody I love Swift.
896 How Fuse Plans to Introduce Paid Product to Free Community Built Over 5+ Years
- ▶ 1:44 Anders Lassen Uh, Java or Swift or whatever you need to access your platform.
- ▶ 9:19 Anders Lassen And that's, and that's mostly due to the tools, because if you look at Swift and Java, they're almost identical to the way apps were built in the nineties.
Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- ▶ 51:58 Leah Culver I'm fascinated by projects like Swift on the server and React on the device. 3 times in the scene
EP 547: Handshake.com Raises $24M, Helping 1000+ Customers Manage Store Product Purchasing with CEO Glen Coates
- ▶ 12:07 Glenn Coates Hey man, if you want to learn like Swift or Go or whatever, like new language came up that, you know, build a Twitter clone, but it's great for doing that.