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FTX Fall: Retaining Fintech’s Trust
There’s a saying in sports that offense sells tickets, and defense wins games. Cryptocurrency trading is only a tiny part of the financial technology sector, but it has been the offense. The excitement around crypto trading has “sold the tickets” and brought mainstream attention to our industry. This newfound attention has been both good and bad for fintech. On the one hand, it brings…
Read MoreFintech & Crypto Partnership Might Be Hard To Come By; Thoughts On Drake, 21 Savage, & SF
Hey hey what’s good everyone—this newsletter’s a bit all over the place but hope you enjoy. It’s been a busy few weeks for me. Last week, Stevie and I went to Menlo Park for a bunch of LP meetings, which went really really well (especially considering the fucked up economic climate we’re in right now.)…
Read MoreThree pro tips for your next cannabis conference
1. Plan ahead It might be a *little* late to plan all the way ahead this go around: but you still have the rest of today and tomorrow to plan meetings and make the most out of BizCon. Walking into BizCon (or any large conference) without a plan is a guaranteed way to get nothing…
Read MoreAmazon Clinic: What Amazon’s Direct-to-Consumer Launch Means for Hims, Ro, and Healthcare
Amazon is focusing most of its healthcare efforts on what it knows best: the consumer. Amazon Clinic is a healthcare play that meshes well with the core strengths of the retail giant.
Read MoreSEO for content marketers: A framework
SEO shouldn’t be the only goal of your content team, but it should be a strong, leading indicator of something going right––at the very least. In an ideal world, content marketing efforts are measured by both organic search sessions to the site and leads generated. It’s important that you do both because too much organic…
Read MoreFalse Idols: How Billionaire Worship Is Blinding Us to Reality
The American public has a fascination with billionaires. As Sam Bankman-Fried and the FTX case show, this admiration – fueled mainly by mainstream media and our society’s obsession with wealth and greed – can often blind people to the reality of these individuals. Just last month, everyone from industry insiders to social media fans was lauding the pronouncements of SBF as the…
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