I’m a booster of accelerator participation for FinTech startups, particularly participation in vertically focused accelerators. B2B FinTech startups generally mature a little later than other types of tech startups and I believe they also benefit from a focus on industry-specific … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]“If no one seems to understand, start your own revolution and cut out the middleman.”
“I’m not even sure what I want, but that’s not the point – it’s that I want it now.”
“Whenever the old gives way to the new, everybody with vested interests in the old starts crying that the world will stop. There aren’t many people with vested interests in the new.”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
And the Air Marshals collect info and take photos of ordinary Americans. Where does that info go? How is it used? Apparently, @TSA doesn’t even know, @DHSOIG found. So many questions—mostly for incoming Biden folks inheriting this major domestic surveillance program from Trump. https://twitter.com/hhandeyside/status/1333566505213050880
Some background: through Quiet Skies, TSA uses secret criteria such as travel patterns and subjective behaviors to identify travelers to target, then deploys air marshals to track and shadow them, even if they're not suspected of any actual wrongdoing.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/discriminatory-profiling/tsa-darkens-skies-secret-surveillance-americans/
Unicredit chief executive Jean-Pierre Mustier is stepping down, saying his plans to transform the bank by 2023 were no longer in keeping with the board's ambitions https://trib.al/E0gV6pL #Unicredit
Missed this: 30 year old Boston #insurtech Delphi Technology, leader in software for medical malpractice carriers, bought by @SapiensIns for "up to" $19.5MM. https://j.mp/3mp2Eyo Sam Fang finally said yes.
It doesn't really sound like Brian Armstrong of Coinbase has found the right way to "build a movement and change the world." At least it doesn't if you would like that change to be for the better. https://j.mp/3mfrPDg
Fidelity piloting #cryptocurrency data and analytics platform created for institutional investors within @FCATalyst: https://j.mp/3o0gmrK #fintech
