5 gifts your HR team really wants

Gift 1: The ability to not give AF If I could bottle something up and give it to every HR/People person it would be the ability to not give AF.  You could spray it on yourself like perfume in moments where you feel yourself caring toooooo much. So for me, anywhere from 1 – 50…

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For Whom the Chime Tolls

3 Fintech News Stories #1: For Whom the Chime Tolls  What happened? Chime reportedly tried to buy DailyPay, a provider of earned wage access, a couple of times earlier this year: Chime offered to buy earned wage access startup DailyPay twice this year, first for $1.6 billion and then for $2 billion, and was rejected…

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More free time won’t make you happier

Time poverty is the feeling of having too much to do and not enough time to do it—aka the founder’s life. As a founder, you have more on your plate than you have time. For many I talk to, the goal is to suffer, build something great, make a lot of money, and find happiness…

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The Future of Obesity Care

2022 was an inflection point for obesity treatment. Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, and Amgen’s novel obesity medications demonstrated impressive results in clinical trials. These medications not only reduced weight but improved overall cardiometabolic health. So, is the end of the obesity epidemic near? Not quite. But we’ll soon have a remarkable pipeline of obesity medications…

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Millennials Are Driving The Future Of Investing

Everyone in consumer fintech is obsessed with Gen Z’s. Gen Z’s this, gen z’s that. Perhaps I’m salty that I’m not in my 20’s anymore (I definitely am.) But, to me, it seems like consumer fintech just focuses on younger and younger audiences without thinking about how to solve problems for older demographics. Who, frankly,…

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Choose Your Own (Card Issuing) Adventure

Video games used to be simple.  Two players hit a ball back and forth until one of them misses, and the other player scores a point. The first to 11 points wins. It wasn’t until a few years later (around 1975) that things started to get more complex. That was when a computer programmer and…

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