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Nature’s Catalysts
How Cascade Biocatalysts aims to improve enzyme performance to facilitate more cost-effective and sustainable chemical reactions.
Read MoreTRY THIS ON FOR SIZE
For everything you are, there’s something that you’re not. I say that a lot. As a reminder, here’s what I mean: What you do as a brand is just as important as what you don’t do. Every brand with a point of view stands for something, and therefore stands against something else. For everything you are,…
Read MoreThe Unbundling: Is Blue Shield’s Big Move a PBM Game-Changer?
Blue Shield of California announced a new cost-saving drug prescription model that involves cutting ties with CVS Health’s Caremark pharmacy benefit manager—one of the largest PBMs in the U.S. This news received a lot of attention, specifically around the “disruption” of PBMs. CVS’s stock subsequently plummeted, prompting the question: Is this the beginning of the end for…
Read MoreFedNow Notes
If you haven’t listened to this podcast that Jason Mikula and I did with Mark Gould, the Chief Payments Executive at the Federal Reserve, I would highly encourage you to do so. It was fascinating. We recorded it shortly before the July 20th launch of FedNow and, as you might imagine, faster payments was a…
Read MoreWhat’s Up In Fintech: Set the Record Straight
On Thursdays, I share news stories and trending pieces I’m keeping tabs on. Consider it your shortcut to shifting through the noise in the fintech news world. #1 Venture Funds Rally Against Reverse Racism Claims, Highlight Urgency Of Diverse Investments in Fintech In response to a recent lawsuit against Fearless Fund, numerous venture funds led…
Read MoreHow Intro pulled 2.2M views with this sneaky influencer strategy
Earlier this week, I did a case study on Intro’s Twitter/X social media content strategy. [Check that out here if you haven’t yet] And during my deep dive, I stumbled upon a post that deserved its own write up. Nikita is a prominent founder (former Facebook employee, recently exited another consumer social app called Gas),…
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