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Activant Capital’s Andrew Steele On Investing In Sardine’s $50m Series B
Activant is thrilled to announce our investment in Sardine’s $51.5M Series B fundraise alongside a16z, XYZ, Nyca, Sound Ventures, Google Ventures, and a host of industry leaders. Sardine, led by Soups, Adi, and Zahid, is building critical infrastructure for the future of payments, connecting the traditionally siloed worlds of identity & fraud and traditional &…
Read MoreThe 19 Biggest Healthcare Business Stories from Q3 2022
Here’s what happened in the business world of healthcare during Q3 2022.
Read MoreMedMen’s drama lives on in 2022
Okay, y’all. Here’s the truth. I had a glorious time covering the downfall of MedMen in a previous Green Paper. I don’t enjoy watching people fail. I’m not evil, but Adam Bierman and Andrew Modlin aren’t simply poor old execs down on their luck. The MedMen founders have been dubbed everything from the industry’s worst-ever…
Read MoreCredit Scores Perpetuate Inequities. Can Fintech Do Better?
Credit scores are supposed to be gender and race-neutral. What a cute idea. Now, let’s come back to reality and remember that’s impossible. President Gerald Ford signed the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) in 1974 to ensure that banks use credit history, not any part of a person’s identity, in deciding whether to approve a loan. It also granted women the right to obtain…
Read MoreGoogle: Search Reinvented
A product update from Google probably doesn’t warrant its own segment but I’m convinced Google Maps is the most underutilized product on the internet. More than a billion people use Google Maps every month. It is the single best tool to get from one place to another that has ever been created. But while it…
Read MoreWhy leaders needs to listen more and talk less
I once had a customer service job. We had an eight-week training with a trainer who told us, “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care,” enough times that I still remember him saying it almost 15 years later. In the last 15 years, I’ve learned that he was…
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