fintech
also referred to as: fintechs
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 8, 2025 by Rick Song · across every show →
Everything said about fintech, oldest first
May 8, 2025 neutral
Song: Most early identity verification startups ended up verticalized in fintech
“Cause like a lot of identity prior to this is very verticalized. You'd have all sorts of businesses who are all like, you know, they all have this idea of we're going to build this universal thing, but in reality, it oftentimes just a vertical, like, Hey, we g…”
Aug 6, 2025
Akhund: Startup iteration cannot succeed without societal-level macro tailwinds
“If you start in an idea with like, You know, if there isn't like a societal level trend that's pushing your kind of space forward, which, you know, I think was true in FinTech in 2017, or it's true in AI now, like it's very hard to iterate around it.”