feels like a bad sign when most of the practitioners in an industry pivot to becoming content producers about their practice.

So you’re telling me a “Swiftie” isn’t someone who’s really into interbank communication networks and the secure exchange of financial transaction information?

🔥The latest This Week in Fintech UK & Europe is out 🔥

Check out all the latest fintech news across UK & Europe including highlights below and more!

Can you guess the European city?

thisweekinfintech.com/ukeu290424/

The Fintech Cruise last week was super fun. Thanks to everyone to braved Bangkok's traffic and weather to make it there.

The cruise was the perfect way to unwind after the conference last week.

See you again soon, Bangkok!

This Week in Fintech

Why Engineers Should Study Philosophy

hbr.org/2024/04/why-en…

you guys all check slack on the weekends too right?

“One day, we will just call them payments” - Nik

Flutterwave is prepping Africa's next fintech IPO (This Week in Fintech 4/28)

thisweekinfintech.com/twif-4-28-2/

Monzo 🏦 expanding it's latest funding round with Hedosophia

news.sky.com/story/digital-…

PSA TO THE NBA: NIKOLA JOKIC IS COMING OVER THIS YEAR. PICKED BY THE NUGGETS AT #41 IN 2014, HE WILL DOMINATE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE AND LAUGH.

An evergreen resource from Aaron Frank, Lachy Groom, cokie, @magoldman, Charlie Deutsch, walt, amanda peyton, Will White

notafintech.company

This year, the U.S. will account for 26.3% of global GDP, the most since 2006.

Brazil's QI Tech becomes the country's next unicorn; Rippling hits $13.5B; introducing cascadingai

(@TWIFintech 4/27)

thisweekinfintech.com/casca/

Ben Brown Fintech Takes Only one of those is venture backed, fwiw.

Terrible wedge product for VC as it takes 5-6 years and $75-$100M to validate the product works before you know the economics.

Hard to wedge into a market.

It’s easy to discount the marvel that is the USA when you are born a citizen.

The year is 2043. There are thousands of search funds looking to do levered SMB buyouts. The world's last remaining independent HVAC repair company, with a 112-year-old founder who's almost ready to retire, is entertaining bids in a range of 10-20,000x EBITDA.

San Francisco post-mortum.

Tl;dr: Absolute top-tier city if you pretend downtown doesn’t exist.

Literally, just never set your set a feet into the inner-city part and you’re going to have an amazing time.

❌ The bad:
• Downtown (Tenderloin & SoMa) is a zombie wasteland and…

Founders generally sell about 20% at seed, whether on SAFEs or through priced equity.