Requests For Startups: Consumer FinTech with Howard Lindzon and Sheel Mohnot
b'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\\u2019re most excited about within FinTech.
- How the space has evolved over the last decade or so.
- Why it\\u2019s a very difficult and crowded space to try to build a company in (hint: \\u201cCACs are ridonculous\\u201d).
- 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 \\u201cweird angles of attack\\u201d into a market.
- Their thoughts on ISAs.
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