CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. The company’s strategy also includes a deference to developers, and a focus on directly serving developers who build websites and applications using Stripe’s product.

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 13, 2019

It is becoming a truism that companies are going public much later in their vintage, and as a result, the capital that fuels their growth is private rather than public. The barrier to entry into the private markets is not just existing regulation?—?which Implications of Staying Private First, let’s talk about who makes money and when.

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 13, 2019

It is becoming a truism that companies are going public much later in their vintage, and as a result, the capital that fuels their growth is private rather than public. The barrier to entry into the private markets is not just existing regulation?—?which Implications of Staying Private First, let’s talk about who makes money and when.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. Anyone in a regulated industry — and that’s just about all of them — are also plenty dubious about using cryptocurrencies as the processing rails for supporting those pilots and incorporating them into their longer-term plans should their pilots show promise. And to learn.

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Capital One’s estimate for $150 million on $28 billion seems off, to say the least. take for example the fact that we still do not have Donald Trump’s tax returns. What’s it Worth?

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Capital One’s estimate for $150 million on $28 billion seems off, to say the least. take for example the fact that we still do not have Donald Trump’s tax returns. What’s it Worth?

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. This regulation reduced trading profits and created a need to cut costs, spurring investment banks to spin off unprofitable divisions or eliminate them entirely.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 25, 2019

I am talking about systemic risk, and the promise of what is most likely the future of financial services after Google, Facebook, Ant Financial, and Apple dismember the banks. According to Blockchain Capital below, nearly 40% of the stablecoin market is Ethereum-based Tether, accounting for 80% of transaction value overall.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Google and Nest. In 2014, Google sought to make an entrance into smart homes by acquiring Nest Labs, a four-year-old startup founded by two ex-Apple engineers, Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Google and Motorola. Price: $3.2B.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

Last week the folks in Brussels came down hard on Google for pushing handset makers to include its ad-supported services, like Google Search and YouTube, on the phones they sell. Google has a simple quid for their quo. That’s really the only way Google makes serious money on its Android investment. See what I mean though?

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Dockless systems, which allow users to park their bike or scooter anywhere along the sidewalk rather than in a fixed docking station, are more convenient and less costly to scale given lower capital costs, as operators don’t have to build out fixed stations. San Francisco was one of the first cities to tackle scooter regulation.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

As the company’s war chest dwindled toward the end of 2018, it could not secure extra capital to continue financing operation — largely because investors had tired on the structural and competitive problems outlined above. Magazine, and the company picked up $40M in VC capital from Index Ventures.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

Forward-thinking startups and large tech companies like Facebook and Google are focused on innovation in single-family and multi-family residential construction. Faced with these challenges, cities are using a combination of regulations and incentives to try to address the housing shortage, but few look likely to fully solve these issues.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said tech giants need to brace themselves for a similar slew of tough regulations to what big banks faced after the financial crisis. Big tech companies like Facebook , Google and Amazon have been feeling the wrath of lawmakers in recent years. billion that the EU fined Google in the past two instances.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

I’d say there’s about as much of a correlation between our bad weather and the birth of those cute little twins as there is between Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon’s fortunes getting bigger and middle class wages getting smaller. Galloway’s narrative asserts that “the four” — Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google — should be broken up.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

Avalara will detail the Weird and Wacky World of Sales Tax. Did you know that sales-tax in the U.S. There are over 12,000 taxing jurisdictions covering millions of taxability rule combinations. Why it’s a must-see: Most FinTechs still need banks because of regulation and processing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

When I realized I needed to buy a pair of spinning shoes for a spin class three days later, I went to Google to find articles on the latest and greatest styles, and then to Amazon to read reviews and make my purchase. Taxes and other measures put in place years earlier were even rolled back.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

“The initial 7 years were all about having negative working capital, positive cash flow and a sustained ability to fund our own growth. I started treasuring GMV, room-nights and other ‘vanity’ metrics instead of the fundamentals of cash flow and working capital,” he explained. Those were the only metrics we tracked. Product: Bridj.

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