Matt Flannery
Co-Founder and CEO, Branch. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Matt Flannery is the co-founder and former CEO of Kiva, a peer-to-peer microfinance crowdfunding platform launched in 2005. In 2015, he co-founded Branch International, a mobile-first digital bank providing credit and financial services across emerging markets.
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Everything Matt Flannery said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Flannery: Mobile apps, not plastic cards, will power emerging market credit
“Credit cards just aren't going to spread. You know, the middle class of India is not going to have plastic credit cards. Nigerians are not going to have Visa cards or MasterCards anytime soon, because there's nowhere to swipe them, and people can't get credit …”
Flannery: AI models make better loan underwriting decisions than humans
“When you're using deep learning or artificial intelligence, different methods of machine learning, it's really hard to articulate exactly why someone got exactly this loan, and robots would be much better at making that decision than people.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Matt's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 a16zLEDGER | Co-Founder and CEO, Branch | 1 | 3 | — | full record on the a16z Podcast → |