Requests For Startups: Consumer FinTech with Howard Lindzon and Sheel Mohnot

Village Global Podcast

English - June 24, 2019 05:08 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 79 ratings
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Erik is joined by Howard Lindzon (@howardlindzon), GP at Social Leverage and co-founder and chairman of StockTwits, and Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi), FinTech investor at 500 Startups.

They discuss:

- Which spaces they’re most excited about within FinTech.

- How the space has evolved over the last decade or so.

- Why it’s a very difficult and crowded space to try to build a company in (hint: “CACs are ridonculous”).

- Their takes on crypto and its future.

- Why incumbents like Google and Amazon have done a poor job in FinTech.

- Why Howard likes companies that have “weird angles of attack” into a market.

- Their thoughts on ISAs.

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