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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…”
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…”
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…”
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…”