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Steve McLaughlin

Founder & CEO, FT Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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After working as a senior financial technology investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Steve McLaughlin founded FT Partners in 2002 as an investment bank dedicated exclusively to fintech. Under his direction, the firm has advised on hundreds of fintech M&A transactions and capital raises for companies including Revolut, AvidXchange, and Coinbase.

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0 supported 1 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 · 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 Steve argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
McLaughlin: Marqeta is growing at hundreds of percent annually
“In the payment space like Marketa is growing at hundreds of percent a year.”
Steve McLaughlin May 26, 2017 ▶ 3:36 671: Predicting The Future of FInTech with Steve McLaughlin, CEO at FT Partners

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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 Steve McLaughlin on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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

Opinion
McLaughlin: Silicon Valley fintechs are underfunded by drip rounds
“I think that's one of the problems I'm seeing in Silicon Valley is a lot of these companies, not necessarily these wealth management companies, but in general are not getting enough funding. Everybody wants to build fintech companies. Exactly. There's no one t…”
Steve McLaughlin May 26, 2017 ▶ 14:07 671: Predicting The Future of FInTech with Steve McLaughlin, CEO at FT Partners
Prediction Not checkable as stated
McLaughlin: Wealth tech will have the most long-term staying power in fintech
“In the wealth tech space, that's the one of the ones I think is going to be a little bit slower to ramp, but has probably the most staying power long-term because you just keep piling assets on top of each other over the years and the stickiness level over som…”
Steve McLaughlin May 26, 2017 ▶ 3:48 671: Predicting The Future of FInTech with Steve McLaughlin, CEO at FT Partners
Prediction Not checkable as stated
McLaughlin: Empirical data will drive mass adoption of robo-advisors
“Once you get some empirical evidence that these robo-advisor platforms and the value of the lower fees and the tax harvesting and things like that are super, you know powerful over the long haul, you know, that empirical data is going to really propel people t…”
Steve McLaughlin May 26, 2017 ▶ 16:56 671: Predicting The Future of FInTech with Steve McLaughlin, CEO at FT Partners
Assertion Not checkable as stated
McLaughlin: Advisory fees scale from 1% on mega-deals to 7% on $100M
“It's different, you know, on a multi-billion dollar deal, you know, it can be a percent, and on, you know, a hundred million dollar deal, it can be seven percent. It kind of scales with the deal size, and then some of the fees can be pretty large if you end up…”
Steve McLaughlin May 26, 2017 ▶ 7:38 671: Predicting The Future of FInTech with Steve McLaughlin, CEO at FT Partners
Assertion Partly supported
McLaughlin: FT Partners did $10B–$15B in 2016 transaction volume
“Probably 10, fifteen billion of total transaction volume. Largest deal is probably four and a half billion.”
Steve McLaughlin May 26, 2017 ▶ 2:58 671: Predicting The Future of FInTech with Steve McLaughlin, CEO at FT Partners
Assertion Contradicted
McLaughlin: Marqeta is growing at hundreds of percent annually
“In the payment space like Marketa is growing at hundreds of percent a year.”
Steve McLaughlin May 26, 2017 ▶ 3:36 671: Predicting The Future of FInTech with Steve McLaughlin, CEO at FT Partners

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
671: Predicting The Future of FInTech with Steve McLaughlin, CEO at FT Partners May 26, 2017 11m
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