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Charley Ma

@charleyma
8 posts
2025-10-01
I've been extremely impressed at how fast Stripe has moved with bridge and privy acquisition to shipping new stablecoin infrastructure - will be on the same tier as facebook's acquisition of instagram. Stablecoin as infrastructure and enabling more competition on yield is 👌
2025-10-01 View on X
CoinDesk

Stripe launches Open Issuance, a Bridge-powered platform that lets companies create its own stablecoins, used by crypto wallet Phantom to issue its CASH token

a new stablecoin created with stripe + bridge w/ baked in developer rewards, stripe merchant support, and new phantom $ features, launching on solana. [video] Ryan Rasmussen / @ras...

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2024-02-28
Seems that copilots for customer support, internal marketing, research, coding, and manual reviews are some of the initial generative AI use cases being explored in financial services 👀
2024-02-28 View on X
Fast Company

Klarna claims its ChatGPT-powered AI chatbot handles two-thirds of all customer service chats and “is doing the equivalent work” of 700 full-time human agents

Klarna is bullish on bots.  —  One month after taking its OpenAI-powered virtual assistant global, the Swedish buy-now …

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2023-03-01
Been spending a lot of time talking to early stage founders around multiple compression and why there's still more pain to come on valuations + expectations Now just going to send this post by @eladgil as valuations still have long way down to the “reset”... https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-01 View on X
Elad Blog

Mid-to-late stage tech startups will likely face a reckoning in late 2023 to 2024, as companies run out of cash from “free rounds” fueled by low interest rates

The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled from interest rates and inflation.

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2022-03-31
Will be interesting to see if Apple does start to do more M&A, how regulators as well as the card networks will respond here... https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-31 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Apple is planning to expand its financial services by adding payment processing, lending risk assessment, credit checks, fraud analysis, and more

Good morning!  Apple is reportedly building financial tools … Mahmoud Itani / XDA Developers : Apple is working on its own payment processing technology and a “Pay Later” feature S...

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2021-12-23
The ultimate employe recruiting perk - a rational 409a & thus strike price for options w/ obvious upside. (great article on how @retool approached their $20M series C with a smaller fundraise + valuation vs what the ‘market’ would pay). https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-23 View on X
Forbes

Retool, a low-code tool for creating enterprise apps, raises a $20M Series C from Stripe's founders and others at a $1.85B pre-money valuation

whether it's internet infrastructure tools or fundraising announcements like this one. Lets you focus on what matters for customers and employees, usually with a much longer time h...

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2020-02-11
This is going to interesting to see what Varo will be able to do with a bank charter and what's more scaleable + profitable: tech enabled financial institutions vs tech built on financial institutions https://twitter.com/...
2020-02-11 View on X
Axios

Varo Money says it has received FDIC approval for federal deposit insurance, bringing it closer to a national bank charter, a first for a fintech startup

Felix Salmon / Axios :

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2020-01-14
When I flew out to sf over 5 years ago for my final interview at Plaid, almost all the “experts” I talked to told me not to join. “The market is too small, the founders don't have the right experience, the team is all randos, the company is way too small, etc etc” https://twitter.com/...
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CNBC

Visa is buying Plaid, which helps popular fintech apps connect to users' bank accounts, for $5.3B

- Visa is buying Plaid in a deal worth $5.3 billion — roughly double the start-up's last private valuation.  — Plaid's API software lets start-ups connect to users' bank accounts a...

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2019-09-14
Commission free trading is the new debit card for fintech? https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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Bloomberg

Sources: Square is testing a new Cash App feature that would let users make free stock trades

Julie Verhage / Bloomberg :

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