René Lacerte
15 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 29, 2024 by René Lacerte · said 17 times in 8 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 7 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about René Lacerte, oldest first
May 29, 2024 neutral
May 29, 2024 positive
Lacerte: An early Bill investor brought in outside counsel for regulatory compliance
“I think it was probably our series E or D. So we ended up getting to I for IPO. But in one of our investments, one of the investors is you know what? I'm not sure you guys have all the right regulatory stuff. I'm going to bring my outside counsel in to really …”
May 29, 2024 negative
Lacerte: Scaled fintechs must own infrastructure because bank partners cannot keep up
“If you're trying to, we wanted the ability to be able to do any type of payment because that's what customers needed. You have to, you know, make sure that you're owning that infrastructure. Versus you're lying on some third party in the bank that's going to h…”
Oct 22, 2024 positive
Product empathy and dogfooding culture must start with leadership
“It does start at the top. Like I will go into any roadmap discussion and I will be talking about the product. I'm in the UX Slack channel. I'm reporting bugs. And that helps people know that, Hey, this is valued in the culture that we all need to use the appli…”
Oct 22, 2024
Oct 22, 2024 positive
Oct 22, 2024
Oct 22, 2024
Choice overload drives small businesses to demand software consolidation
“So what that tells consumers and all of us is that there's too much choice. Which is why consumers, small businesses, I think of as consumers are asking for consolidation, which is why we've acquired companies is why we built our platform to continue to be ext…”
Oct 22, 2024 positive
Financial platforms only earn the right to monetize payments through software excellence
“We don't get to do your payments unless you love the software that you just talked about. Like we are a software government. We have to make a great experience. We have to make it so that when you're going between buildings, you can actually pay a bill if you …”
Oct 22, 2024 positive
Oct 22, 2024
Founders must define a viable business model before acquiring customers
“Like you don't wait to build the business model. Don't wait to say, Oh, I get the customers. They will come and I'll figure it out. No, have your model. Maybe you don't charge it first, but have a model that says, okay, at this price point, I'm going to be abl…”
Oct 22, 2024 positive
Oct 22, 2024