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Co-founder at @seriesfinancial — building the Enterprise Operating System (EOS) with the Series team

San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2020
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@brextonpham
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2 years
Every crypto project the last 24 months:
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2 years
"Airlines are credit card companies that fly planes as a side hustle" I think about this quote a lot
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2 years
What do PMs at LinkedIn do, genuine question
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@brextonpham
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1 year
All of tech and banking after the Fed stepped in:
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@brextonpham
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8 months
1/ Today, @seriesfinancial is announcing our modern, flexible ERP-alternative called an Enterprise Operating System (EOS) to automate finance & operations stacks for businesses to save them time and money, as well as our 25m in funding.
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2 years
In hindsight, absolutely nuts that a single startup (clubhouse) was able to get even the product teams at slowest/largest companies to ship clones at breakneck/historic pace (twitter, slack, etc)
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10 months
Taylor swift went 3.5 hours nonstop: - singing with no loss in quality - dancing choreo/playing instruments with no loss in energy - commanding an entire stadium stage as a SINGLE person She has like Olympian level strength and stamina Wasn’t a fan before this past month but
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10 months
i think it’s safe to say i converted my bf into a swiftie last night
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1 year
@0xgaut Just tag me next time
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1 year
My girlfriend’s dad was generous enough to teach me how to ski for the 1st time this weekend Then he put me on a “Blue” before I knew how to turn. I looked down the mountain and I lost my mind I died about 12718 times I have a newfound respect for white people—y’all are wild
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2 years
Super excited to unveil the 776 Titans Fund, a collab between @sevensevensix and @seriesfinancial to back & support a coalition of exceptional emerging managers, each with their own influential distribution channels and unique operational experience.
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@brextonpham
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3 years
The best thing I've heard from an investor recently: "I don't care who's in, I think for myself" That's the type of person you not only want to work with but also hang out with
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2 years
I don’t understand how people can have the emotional stamina to build consumer products
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2 years
My girlfriend just informed me that her family puts marshmallow on their sweet potatoes for thanksgiving Jfc is this true? Do people do this??
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8 months
. @ericbahn responded to a cold email from a random college freshman with no other ask outside of "can I get to know you" He then proceeded to take me to lunch at Facebook, teach me about "LPs" and tell me about how venture really worked when he was fundraising @HustleFundVC fund
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Eric Bahn 💛
8 months
Huge congratulations to @brextonpham and Team @seriesfinancial for their awesome fundraise announcement today! It's amazing to me that the first time I met Brexton was when he was a freshman at Stanford, 8 years ago. (1/x)
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@brextonpham
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1 year
I have never received more texts, emails, twitter/slack DMs, and phone calls in my life
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1 year
Now that we can all collectively joke about it I'm going unpack this trauma over the coming weeks/months if anyone wants to join me
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1 year
pov you work in finance this weekend
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8 months
Warning: very cheesy tweet. Growing up watching my mom build a nail salon in Georgia shaped my worldview completely, including how I think about @seriesfinancial Grateful for the strongest person I know and the woman I learned everything from
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My mom turned 63 this past year and she's also recently retired after working for several decades at a nail salon for 12+ hours a day so she's never even *thought* about remotely exercising For the first time in her life she has so much time on her hands that she doesn't really
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My life got exponentially better once I got my fitness and nutrition in order: • Heavy lifting 5 days per week • 3-4 days of cardio per week • Counting my macros and eating a caloric deficit with high protein • Cutting out 95% of alcohol intake • 7-8 hours of sleep (pre
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2 years
I’m convinced that anyone who does BD in fintech will become unstoppable as a founder later on The deep level of knowledge on tools, vendors, & market combined with the ability to parallelize processes on uncertain timelines — the ultimate crash course Plus juggling compliance!
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2 years
@jslishi This is my best tweet ever
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1 year
Relieved doesn’t even begin to describe it
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2 years
You don’t appreciate b2b until you’ve tried consumer
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2 years
I'll never forget when I told an engineering manager that I wanted to leave to start building things & they told me I should stay because I "wouldn't be ready for a while" There will never be a day where you'll feel like you're ready. Don't project your risk tolerance on others
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2 years
The biggest tension between web2/web3 right now is compliance. On/off-ramping is not a tech problem it's a kyc/kyb problem
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1 year
As someone who grew up watching my mom build a struggling nail salon in a random suburb in Georgia, nothing warms my heart more than finding a local viet business that’s absolutely *blowing up* Gao SF — 30+ minute wait at 9:20pm, this place looks like it’s going to be heaven
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2 years
In hindsight I learned more about “business” from watching my mom build her nail salon than from consuming the endless amount of silicon valley thought-leadership/“entrepreneurship” content that exists Took me too long to appreciate it
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2 years
Find you an investor that will stay up until 2am for a customer meeting. @alexisohanian is unstoppable. Value-add isn't just a buzzword with @sevensevensix
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2 years
It is my birthday! Please follow me so I can be more popular than my gf’s crypto anon Twitter. It’s frankly getting embarrassing every time I talk to her now
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@brextonpham
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1 year
PSA please look up US Banking hours Although you can initiate wires on the weekends, they won’t be processed until the next business day Wires not being processed on the weekends are not indicative of the bank — that is just how US banks work Please stop using caps & emojis
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1 year
I have aged years in the past 48 hours
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1 year
for everyone who keeps asking me how @brextonpham is doing… he’s grown 30 gray hairs overnight
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@brextonpham
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3 years
Everyone is talking about NYC this week but there is one thing you can never take away about SF: I literally experience 0 FOMO in this city I sit I work I eat I sleep and I occasionally leave the house and I’m not mad about it
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1 year
Had a ton of fun with @nmasc_ ! It was great sharing a tiny bit about what Series actually does for the first time, how we're very not competitive Brex/Mercury (they're great!), and just every thought around SVB and the US banking system Thanks for letting me talk endlessly
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🎙️ @nmasc_ is on the pod today with Series CEO @brextonpham to unpack what's left behind after #SVB 's crash. Full episode here!
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1 year
I have started signing off my emails with "cheers" and I hate myself for it
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2 years
Pokémon go in SF summer 2016 is the closest we’ve ever gotten to world peace We were naive
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8 months
Note to self: 1. Comb hair 2. Use virtual background
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8 months
As an advocate for the power of software to improve our lives, I'm stoked about our latest @sevensevensix portco: @seriesfinancial . @katelin_cruse talked with Series' CEO @brextonpham about how Series helps companies streamline + optimize their finance & operations management ↓
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@brextonpham
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2 years
Wow, @vercel feels like magic
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2 years
During the '08 crisis my mom would worry daily about if customers would come to her nail salon & and if we could survive Today I can support both of us with a *salary* to stare at my laptop Lots of doom & gloom on the TL today but perspective helps. Everything will be fine lol
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2 years
I have a very strong belief that people who were attractive growing up never had to form personalities If you were, however, fat or ugly or a PoC traumatized by your immigrant parents as a kid there’s a 99% likelihood you’re hilarious Sorry I don’t make the rules
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8 months
Every single “professional” event I’ve been to the past 6 months has included the following interaction: “Your girlfriend is HILARIOUS on twitter” I guess this is life now
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2 years
The idea of “sf being back” is so weird to me If you’re here to work w/ esoteric nerds who never leave their laptops, sf never “left” Sure, the fun/overpaid 11am-3pm FAANGers left for NYC, but that’s not why founders came here Feels like early 2010s Mission Control & I love it
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1 year
I need banking to be less interesting right now
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2 years
My mom has spent the entire past hour yelling at me and comparing me to @jjeremycai . She purchased her first leather jacket from @italic and is now obsessed. Luxury goods + low prices = product market fit among asian moms
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7 months
Was in an elevator with @Jon_Favreau today and after the longest 30 seconds of intensely thinking about what to say all I could stutter was "I lIKe YoUR MoVIes" and promptly running away *Smooth*
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2 years
Capital call lines of credit make up more than a quarter of svb’s revenue Isn’t that interesting
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1 year
The least that twitter can do right now is prevent people from tweeting in all caps
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@brextonpham
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3 years
Wild that last year we got an infamous @sequoia black swan memo. Remember that? Hard to believe that the following year would result in the best time to build, ever
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@brextonpham
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1 year
Couldn’t agree more — grew up on SNAP and was supported all the way into undergrad Massively grateful for the program
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@brextonpham
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2 years
Will be working closely with @0xwagmi to bring more institutional adoption to @terra_money and vice versa. He is a must-meet for any incredible builders jumping into the ecosystem. More to come soon.
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@brextonpham
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1 year
@NWischoff Staring down a mountain emotionally preparing yourself to pummel down into the depths of the earth all while 4-5 year olds zip past you is humbling to say the least
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1 year
Not wrong Any tips for 27? I can feel my ability to socialize in group settings and to stay up past midnight eroding away very quickly
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1 year
asked my bf what he wanted for his birthday, he said “high margin, recurring revenue”
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Today is indeed the biggest day of my life 5 x 5 went up like BUTTER
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bf hit a 225 bench press today and now it’s his new personality
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@brextonpham
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1 year
I can indeed confirm that after telling my viet mom who lives in a random suburb Georgia about today’s events, neither she or anyone in my family cares Good reminder for all of us in this bubble to take a breather
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1 year
What if banks didn't make their money off of lending but instead with something like, I don't know, SaaS? Payroll, benefits, AP / AR, accounting, tax filings, basic treasury management, etc. 60-90% gross margin recurring revenue products One can dream
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@brextonpham
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A few of us are making this a thing If you’re in SF and you would like to join the “Hometown Supper Club” where we hang out with good people and one person hosts a meal of hometown/cultural food they grew up with every month shoot me a DM! No picky eaters allowed
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@nmasc_ @CharleyMa Similarly I've always wanted to host monthly dinners of founders/investors/friends/etc. where you invite people and you alternate "hosts" where the "host" of that week puts together a dinner for everyone of the cultural food they grew up with Sorry I'm very excited about this
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1 year
At this point I'm convinced you can spend your entire life in the KYC/KYB/AML space if you decided to
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2 years
Big news tomorrow
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@brextonpham
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2 years
July was definitely the most important month for @seriesfinancial so far, and August will be much bigger… We are going to surprise our customers with a suite of products that will make their lives 10x easier Can barely wait
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8 months
I nearly died when the national alert went off
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2 years
Plaid for all the different crypto custodians what a crazy idea haha 👀
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3 years
All of my smartest friends are in web3/crypto. I feel so late but simultaneously still early(?)
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@brextonpham
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2 years
Sorry for the delay in responding to everyone’s messages—our team’s working hard to address everyone coming from silvergate/FTX & migrating to @seriesfinancial Scaling our capabilities as we speak—will make sure we can service customers quickly & fully Feel free to drop a note
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@brextonpham
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2 years
Very big day for @seriesfinancial today. More to share soon.
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@brextonpham
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10 months
Big month, have butterflies in my stomach — feels like a lot of long term bets by the @seriesfinancial team are finally seeing the light of day
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2 years
SF Work Week where everyone just goes to their office and works
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2 years
Absolutely no where like home
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1 year
Being someone named "Brex" working in fintech when there's also an awesome company of the same name is an interesting experience to say the least
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2 years
UA's mileage plus/loyalty program subsidiary was valued at 22b (2019 ebitda * 12 according to their k-8)...whoa
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1 year
I do not believe anyone who says that they prefer brown rice over jasmine Heinous
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8 months
He doesn't know this, but the first time I hopped on a phone call with @alexisohanian I full-on panicked — I couldn't believe I was talking to...well, Alexis, and I think I just peaced out for the rest of the day. There's a feeling that's hard to describe when you're fan-boying
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It's no question that managing finances + operations is hard, but @seriesfinancial found a solution 🚀 @brextonpham , CEO and Co-Founder of Series, shared with @katelin_cruse why his product resonates with everyone, even those unfamiliar with finance ↓
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1 year
Regardless of who you choose — having redundant/multiple banking and financial services relationships is never a bad thing Create optionality and hedge
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8 months
I think one of the biggest mistakes I’ve made regarding strength training is not eating enough and trying to “lean bulk” because I’m afraid of gaining weight/fat Well ever since fully committing to “tactical thickness” the progress has been wild and I wished I did this sooner
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The amount of “well educated” & “humanitarians/activists” who have extremist takes is sad You can acknowledge other atrocities without proactively taking away from the current one You can have your opinions & not support terrorism Nothing justifies the murder/rape of civilians
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@brextonpham
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2 years
There should be an emotional support group for immigrant children who were made fun of for the food they brought to lunch but now feel a confused mixture of vindication and being slighted as those same people now adopt that cultural food as Hip™️
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2 years
I always feel dumb trying to pronounce this place
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2 years
Big day for @seriesfinancial
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2 years
A year from now the industry will no longer be thinking about silvergate, or even signature It will just be @seriesfinancial
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2 years
Thinking more about on/off-ramps recently. UX is still really, really bad
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. @ModernTreasury is one of those companies where you become a customer of one of their products and your mind gets blown by how much more there is and you upsell yourself Incredible
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2 years
I'm not proud of this but I literally think I have no hobbies What do normal people do and how do they find these "interests"
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@brextonpham
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8 months
ERP twitter is going to figure out that my profile is actually just a banh mi review account real quickly
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@brextonpham
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3 years
Mercury is such a good product, I have this thought about twice a week. Absolute no-brainer
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@brextonpham
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7 months
This exactly In an ideal world TurboTax shouldn’t even exist Massive industries have been built on bugs (not features) that aren’t even in the best interest of the end user/customer Don’t even get me started on analytics/BI software
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@_catwu Not the answer you’re looking for but if I had $100M to kill it I’d spend it all on lobbying. Taxes should be done for us like they are in other countries
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2 years
What are your all-time favorite products? I’ll go first: The @McDonalds hash brown
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2 years
. @seriesfinancial is growing quickly entirely from email intro referrals from customers. No marketing, no frills and the magic hasn’t even begun yet. Just the beginning
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1 year
Had a reputable PE customer unable to work with a big 4 bank just this past week since they want a LoC but they only regularly draw down ~20% and the bank wants much more to be drawn to make fees worth it to them We truly underestimate how innovative and necessary SVB & FRB are
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2 years
I just had someone ask me "wait you're working this week?" We fully deserve this bear market
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2 years
The best time to go on the offensive is when everyone else is on the defensive. This feels like an amazing time to build
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6 months
They say that by the time you feel like you’re ready to pay back your parents it will already be too late No better time than now to spend time with them and do all of the things!
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9 months
This is my quarterly review of my favorite restaurant in the bay — Gao I haven’t had a single bad dish & I would have every meeting here if I could I get nothing out of marketing them but I wouldn’t complain if they made me their mascot Starting off with a classic: pho rolls
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2 years
I just finished doing my taxes after so much procrastination someone congratulate me
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8 months
Two verticals that we @seriesfinancial have been seeing so many requests from are healthcare and manufacturing Good reminder that just because solutions exist for "boring" industries that we take for granted, it doesn't mean that users are necessarily happy
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It's gorgeous
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1 year
I’m sure we’ll be unpacking the past week’s events for months to come from all different angles but one thing is for sure Fintech is going to get much more interesting…might have been the kick the sector needed
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2 years
First link on google — incredible beating the SEO game @CurveFinance
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1 year
Today is a sad day SF needs reform
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Bob Lee, creator of Cash App and former CTO of Square, stabbed to death
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7 months
Jumping down the engagement ring rabbithole so far I have learned two things: 1. I knew/know very little about how any of this worked 2. For some reason everyone and their mom has a ring “guy”
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2 years
Our team has officially moved off of airtable and into hubspot for our sales CRM This feel grown-up and I don't know how I feel about it
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2 years
The @eightsleep has arrived. Am I in for the greatest night of sleep of my life?
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2 years
Asian moms will never say “I love you” they’ll just cut bowls of fruit for you
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