Mercury, every mention

Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury) Aug 6, 2025 · 38 mentions

• ▶ 0:00 Imad Akhund Four days after launch, someone like signed up, never spoke to us, and transferred a million dollars into a Mercury bank account, and I was like, wow. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:37 Imad Akhund Mercury is almost a thousand person company. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 7:30 Imad Akhund So, you know, for example, for Mercury, we look for humble people that are helpful, that are curious, that are customer centric and product minded.
• ▶ 13:45 Brett Berson And I guess the, the thing I'm interested in is Mercury is on a trajectory to be the most important company, I think, that you've built thus far. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 15:01 Imad Akhund Like I think one of your questions that you sent me was, why didn't I do Mercury earlier? 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 20:34 Imad Akhund Mercury was pretty different. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 22:37 Imad Akhund So Mercury took a year and a half before we launched. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 27:44 Imad Akhund And yeah, that's also how I thought about Mercury. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 30:15 Brett Berson Tell the story about the, the sort of original moment that you thought, huh, maybe I could build what then became Mercury.
• ▶ 37:27 Brett Berson taught you that then informed what you ended up doing in the, in the early months and years of Mercury?
• ▶ 39:12 Imad Akhund Either failed to get a charter, or even when they got the charter, uh, like there's a company called Varo that was like a Chime competitor, and Chime went with the sponsor bank model, and Varo went with the bank charter model, and I would…
• ▶ 46:17 Imad Akhund Um, and that worked really well because, A, yeah, there was, kind of, trust that people had in those people that was, kind of, then leaked onto Mercury. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 52:16 Imad Akhund So when I, when it came to Mercury, I was just like, Hey, competition doesn't matter. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 55:59 Brett Berson What was the story of the SVB crisis in the context of Mercury? 4 times in the scene