Tiger manages over 100 billion now per John Curtis in Afore’s pre seed summit Curtis says whenever he finds a company interesting, they immediately start doing customer calls with internal and external teams even before jumping on a call with the CEO

“Hundreds of such projects going on at the same time”

An under-appreciated edge Tiger has over venture firms is that it deploys an army of wall street types who have cut their teeth working 100 hours a week for years. Their worth ethic shines through in how and when they do due diligence Their junior staff is not Stanford MBA types with 1-2 years of startup experience. They don't seek operator status. They don't give a shit about personal brands or twitter. They are just brining the late night Wall Street DNA to venture capital

It’s refreshing to see Tiger dominate with “We are pure financiers. We do our homework. We don’t believe we have any value to add besides our capital, speed and terms. Go do your thing” vibe in an era where investors constantly claim credit and claim to value add! In an environment where capital is abundant, the conventional wisdom has been differentiation comes from brand, services and storytelling by the firms. Tiger is showing being boring can be a winning recipe. It’s showing latent preferences of founders.

Lord give me the confidence of a 22-25 year old well known school graduate with no notable accomplishment mention being an operator, investor, consultant and speaker ten times when introducing themselves I’m very happy for you that you interned at Stripe, know people at Uber, wrote a 1K check to your Harvard buddy’s startup and spent two years refining pitch decks at McKinsey

To be fair, I did none of those things so I guess we can agree I’m a loser but pls check your ego

Time for a thread, Im sorry!

Fintech has exploded in the past decade. Technology is changing how we save, invest, transact, borrow & much more. Where and how we interface with financial services is evolving. How we go about building financial services is changing. Fintech played a powerful role in distributing PPP loans, stimuli checks and unemployment benefits during the pandemic. Given how critical financial services are to our wellness, embracing change to make the system more inclusive, reliable & accessible is a worthy pursuit

Fairly counterintuitive insights from @RSerna2010 of Finix (payment facilitation) & @RunikM of Vise (wealth management)

sarharibhakti.substack.com/p/fintech-foun… .@StephKirkpat of Orum (money movement), @anthonystrike of Steadipay (SMB cash flow management), @Pencilsack of Rightfoot (student debt API) & @gil_akos of Astra (automated bank transfers) on what they changed their mind on or misunderstood : sarharibhakti.substack.com/p/21-fintech-f…

Based on a recent poll, it looks like some of you are interested in short form blogging from me, so here's my first piece.

Its 2018, so you got to at least try to have a newsletter.

btw, @SubstackInc is a great product!

Sign up : sarharibhakti.substack.com/p/gold-rush We have a long way to go in terms of technology helping us control our worst avocado, coffee and kombucha impulses when it comes to money.

I wrote about fintech!

If you follow the space, you probably don't want to read it.

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Level of access Twitter has given me to discuss w & learn from practitioners across areas is crazy. Who would have thought that a SMS product where you told your friends what you ate for breakfast can become a learning network? It has expanded my interest graph & overton window. This isn’t just a feeling. Data backs it up. Exposure to people & ideas expands the realm of possibilities. I can attribute 100s of people that know of me, 6 jobs, and dozens of friends, professional relationships and new interests to it.