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Neil DeSena

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, SenaHill Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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After pioneering the REDI electronic trading unit at Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, DeSena served as Managing Director and Global Head of REDI Products at Goldman Sachs. In 2013, he co-founded SenaHill Partners, a specialized FinTech merchant bank offering growth capital and advisory services.

7statements → 5claims → 2claims resolved → 3.43/5average certainty → 1.86/5average debate potential → 4said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 3 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Neil argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
DeSena: Banks spent $200B on tech in 2015, 75% on maintenance
“There was a report published that said in, I forgot who published it, but in. 15, two hundred billion dollars worldwide was spent by the banks in technology. 75% of that was basically maintenance.”
Neil DeSena Feb 15, 2017 ▶ 9:00 EP 571: SenaHill Transacted $200M In FinTech 2016, 7 Predictions for 2017 with Founding Partner Neil DeSena

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
DeSena: Symbiont signed a deal with Delaware for digital company registration
“Well, they have signed a deal with the state of Delaware. And companies now are going to be able to register their companies digitally. So Symbiont is going to be at the point of formation of all of these companies.”
Neil DeSena Feb 15, 2017 ▶ 6:08 EP 571: SenaHill Transacted $200M In FinTech 2016, 7 Predictions for 2017 with Founding Partner Neil DeSena

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Neil DeSena on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Neil DeSena said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
DeSena predicts Wall Street regulations will ease under the Trump administration
“No, I think things are going to ease up, but that, that's not, that wasn't the rationale for me to put this here.”
Neil DeSena Feb 15, 2017 ▶ 7:39 EP 571: SenaHill Transacted $200M In FinTech 2016, 7 Predictions for 2017 with Founding Partner Neil DeSena
Opinion
DeSena: Portfolio company Tradelegs could replace Delta One desks at banks
“You could point to a company that we have called Tradelegs, which basically could replace the Delta one desks at all of the all of the big banks.”
Neil DeSena Feb 15, 2017 ▶ 9:45 EP 571: SenaHill Transacted $200M In FinTech 2016, 7 Predictions for 2017 with Founding Partner Neil DeSena
Insight
DeSena: Post-2008 Wall Street lost generational knowledge of electronic transitions
“The knowledge that has seen the industry progress from a pure manual process to an electronic form, those guys are all gone. A lot of them are gone, and now you have much younger people filling that void, and there's a big bunch of stuff missing. Just a pure k…”
Neil DeSena Feb 15, 2017 ▶ 3:31 EP 571: SenaHill Transacted $200M In FinTech 2016, 7 Predictions for 2017 with Founding Partner Neil DeSena
Prediction Not checkable as stated
DeSena: Distributed ledger tech is ready for prime time in 2017
“It absolutely is ready for prime time. And I, it's ready for prime time for those who have built the technology proper. So I think this is going to be a year where the haves and the have nots are going to be distinguished.”
Neil DeSena Feb 15, 2017 ▶ 5:35 EP 571: SenaHill Transacted $200M In FinTech 2016, 7 Predictions for 2017 with Founding Partner Neil DeSena
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DeSena: SenaHill advised or led close to $200M in 2016 transactions
“It was definitely more than a hundred million bucks. Close to two hundred million, I believe.”
Neil DeSena Feb 15, 2017 ▶ 4:32 EP 571: SenaHill Transacted $200M In FinTech 2016, 7 Predictions for 2017 with Founding Partner Neil DeSena
Assertion Contradicted
DeSena: Symbiont signed a deal with Delaware for digital company registration
“Well, they have signed a deal with the state of Delaware. And companies now are going to be able to register their companies digitally. So Symbiont is going to be at the point of formation of all of these companies.”
Neil DeSena Feb 15, 2017 ▶ 6:08 EP 571: SenaHill Transacted $200M In FinTech 2016, 7 Predictions for 2017 with Founding Partner Neil DeSena
Assertion Supported
DeSena: Banks spent $200B on tech in 2015, 75% on maintenance
“There was a report published that said in, I forgot who published it, but in. 15, two hundred billion dollars worldwide was spent by the banks in technology. 75% of that was basically maintenance.”
Neil DeSena Feb 15, 2017 ▶ 9:00 EP 571: SenaHill Transacted $200M In FinTech 2016, 7 Predictions for 2017 with Founding Partner Neil DeSena

The other half of the tape: Neil DeSena's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 2 episodes on Top Founders. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 571: SenaHill Transacted $200M In FinTech 2016, 7 Predictions for 2017 with Founding Pa Feb 15, 2017 7m
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