Micky Malka

0 statements across 0 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 2, 2026 by Micky Malka · across every show →

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Aug 2, 2026 positive
Insight
Malka: Every major art movement in history starts with portraits
“Every single art movement in history starts with portraits. They always involve the portrait.”
Micky Malka Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 1:03:26 Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
Aug 2, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Malka: Dee Hock considered Visa a failure because it lacked smart contracts
“For him Visa was a failure, if you talk to him, because he only got to release The simple version of it, which was payments, he wanted to do a lot more, which looked a lot like blockchains and smart contracts are today, but he was probably 60 years ahead of hi…”
Micky Malka Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 27:22 Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
Aug 2, 2026 negative
Insight
Malka: Accepting labels blinds people and makes life harder
“The more you walk through life allowing things to have label, the more difficult life is because then you cannot see through it. You just see what you've been told to see. So I think it's part of my rebel cause to never accept labels.”
Micky Malka Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 0:59 Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
Aug 2, 2026 positive
Opinion
Malka: Dee Hock's association legal model was Visa's biggest success
“His biggest success was the legal model he used. No one had ever done a company in that structure. And the association model allowed everybody to save face, but at the same time, take the credit. And that's how he won.”
Micky Malka Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 26:35 Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
Aug 2, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Malka: Revolut CEO Nikolay Storonsky maintains 20 direct reports
“He still has 20 people direct report to him.”
Micky Malka Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 39:57 Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
Aug 2, 2026 positive
Insight
Malka: Buffett's value is his repeatable decision framework across any market
“What you learn from it is not the decisions he makes, it's how in any environment he repeats the same pattern of decision-making process. And that's the most important thing that you get from Reddit.”
Micky Malka Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 7:45 Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
Aug 2, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Malka bought his first Berkshire Hathaway share in 1987 at age 13
“So I bought my first share of Berkshire when I was 13 years old in Venezuela. It was November of 1987.”
Micky Malka Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 5:42 Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
Aug 2, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Malka: Founder-led fintechs like Stripe and Nubank will win AI race
“I think it comes from them. Because first, they're still founder-led, or Revolut, also. They're still founder-led. Those founders are pushing the boundaries of all of this. They are at an age, and they are at a place, and if you talk to them, they're still as …”
Micky Malka Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 17:14 Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
Aug 2, 2026
Assertion Supported
Malka: Lemon Bank scaled to 7,000 Brazil locations serving 15 million customers
“We had, at peak, we had 7000 of these physical spaces all over Brazil. We were serving fifteen million customers. Half of Brazil back then was unbanked.”
Micky Malka Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 53:55 Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
Aug 2, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Malka: Ribbit Capital gives all team members open access to internal inboxes
“Everybody can see my calendar in my inbox. They can see my emails, and I can see anybody's emails. We share all the information so we can actually become better as a team.”
Micky Malka Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 1:11:49 Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
Aug 2, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Malka: Ribbit makes all investment decisions collectively without lead partners
“We don't make individual decisions. We make group decisions. And there's no, like, somebody asks, who's the partner responsible for that company? It's like, what partner?”
Micky Malka Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 1:12:03 Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
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