Posts tagged with Finance
FinTech Credibility
I worked at Affirm for 3½ years, before "Buy Now Pay Later" (BNPL) was coined as the instantly-approved, low-duration loan popular with online retailers today. Some would argue that the entire business model was only possible…
Review: The Aspirational Investor
The Aspirational Investor is a book by the Chief Investment Officer of Merrill Lynch that introduces a slightly different way to think about investments. It’s not looking to overturn how to think about investing; the author readily admits that…
A Crypto Hypothesis
I don't write much about crypto on this blog. While I've worked and lived through some of the formulative years of FinTech, I admit I don't fully understand the crypto space—a space that…
Free is Magic
So, after waxing poetically about CDs and DVDs from 2 decades ago and ripping a couple of select anime series[1] and movies, I turned around and threw away the disks. As opposed to searching for sparks of joy as…
Funny Chart Investing
Ever since the Square IPO, I’ve been keeping a closer eye on, while trying to learn more about, the US stock market. Even though my first job out of school involved supporting systems that aggregated financial data across stock…
Meme Finance
Out of college, I joined a company that aggregated financial data to sell to stock market traders and analysts; briefly explored the Master of Financial Engineering degree at Cal; ended up working for two FinTech startups that managed to scale…
