Baran Ozkan

(re)tweets personal views

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Here's YC's official advice about being truthful and precise about what is pilot, bookings, revenue and recurring revenue.

Founders, particularly first time founders, need to sear this into their brains. Don't mistake one tier for another. Be precise, and always be truthful.

[PYMNTS @pymnts]

Fraud and AML systems are generating more alerts than humans can realistically investigate.

That backlog is creating a compliance bottleneck across financial institutions.

@FlagrightHQ's Madhu Nadig explains how “AI forensics” uses specialized AI agents to gather evidence, summarize investigations and even close low-risk alerts in seconds.

More on PYMNTS: https://t.co/15XBHQUYzJ

[Baran Ozkan @compilingfreak]

lol everyone's launching prototypes and calling it a company

[Marik Hazan @MarikHazan]

We just rebuilt every startup in @ycombinator's latest demo day batch.

Here's what our agentic "founders" pulled off and what it means for the future of startups.

Fully useable products at the bottom of the thread below 🤖🧨

[Baran Ozkan @compilingfreak]

@IRAS_SG Your system is down every weekend. When are you planning to fix it so people can file their taxes? Seeing the same error for the last 2-3 weeks.

[“paula” @paularambles]

new forbes 30 under 30 model where you pay to stay off the list

[Baran Ozkan @compilingfreak]

You gotta own the context

[signüll @signulll]

while they require more capital fully verticalized startups like this are super fascinating to me cuz in the ai era the two things that matter are owning the underlying context & deploying intelligence on top of it.

most ai startups do the latter on someone else's platform because it's easier to sell, i.e. you don't have to ask customers to rip out the whole god damn stack. but if someone else is always upstream, you can't really redesign workflows or build anything that defensible.

in specific verticals where incumbent software is fragmented enough to allow rip & replace, you'll likely see more companies running the toast playbook which is to own the system of record then make every ai feature a retention mechanism rather than a standalone product.

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

"People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model... But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life—and all of the food you eat during that time—before you get smart."

[Baran Ozkan @compilingfreak]

@mattgmarcus @ModernTreasury Congrats Matt!

[Baran Ozkan @compilingfreak]

@samdblond Looks amazing Sam

[Flagright @FlagrightHQ]

🇪🇺 Another EU banking client is live: SME Bank.

SME Bank is a Vilnius headquartered digital bank for business clients, operating on a specialized banking license issued by the European Central Bank.

After a successful evaluation, SME Bank selected and deployed Flagright to centralize:
• Real‑time transaction monitoring
• Watchlist screening
• Investigations in one audit‑ready workflow

This is where EU fincrime compliance is heading: AI‑native, real‑time, customizable controls that scale as teams and regulations evolve.

Read the announcement: https://t.co/A6Idl5VgID

#AMLCompliance #TransactionMonitoring #WatchlistScreening

[Flagright @FlagrightHQ]

🎥Fraud & AML are converging, and the best teams are rebuilding their fincrime operations around one real-time, risk-based governed program.

Throwback to our FinCrime Fireside Chat in London with @LSEGplc and @GoCardless on designing next-gen fincrime programs with GenAI: less noise, faster investigations, and friction where it belongs; on criminals, and not legitimate clients.

Watch the highlights 👇

#AMLCompliance #TransactionMonitoring #FraudDetection #GenAI

[石井孝明（Ishii Takaaki） @ishiitakaaki]

クルド人の女性兵士を讃える、おバカな日本人たちがいました。中東ではこんなふうに見られているし、この女性兵士の何人かは洗脳、バカな親、拉致の被害者です。クルド人は今シリアで鎮圧され、残虐行為が明らかになっています

[石井孝明（Ishii Takaaki） @ishiitakaaki]

トルコでクルド人ストリートギャング、人を殺した直後の１５歳の少年の顔のおどけた顔だそうです。社会問題化しています。同じ文化の中にいる、入国で選別されない在日クルド人の２世問題が埼玉で発生しています。

[Baran Ozkan @compilingfreak]

Hilarious post in many ways

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

We need to replace NATO.

With the European Defence Community! 🇪🇺

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@MagnusCarlsen Don’t forget to have kids

[KPay Hong Kong @kpay_hk]

KPay Partners with @FlagrightHQ for AI-Powered AML & Transaction Monitoring. 🛡️

As a leading provider of comprehensive pay-in and pay-out services designed to fuel merchant growth, we we adopt Flagright's real-time transaction monitoring, AI forensics, and no-code workspace. This enables proactive risk detection, rapid rule configuration, automated customer risk profiles, and efficient investigations with full auditability.

Partnering with Flagright, trusted in 30+ markets and reducing false positives by 93% while lowering compliance costs by 80%, advances our secure fintech ecosystem.

United with Flagright, we're pioneering a more secure payments platform for merchants to grow their businesses.

#KPay #Flagright #ThriveWithKPay

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

I'd like to wish all of my friends--and even my many enemies--a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton,

If you are convinced that torture is taking place at CECOT, El Salvador is ready to cooperate fully.

We are willing to release our entire prison population (including all gang leaders and all those described as “political prisoners”) to any country willing to receive them.
The only condition is straightforward: it must be everyone.

This would also greatly assist journalists and your favorite NGOs, who would then have thousands of former inmates available for interviews, making it far easier to find additional voices critical of the Salvadoran government (or willing to confirm whatever conclusions are already expected).

Surely, if these testimonies reflect a systemic reality, a much larger pool of sources should only reinforce the claim, and many governments should be eager to offer protection.

Until then, we will continue prioritizing the human rights of the millions of Salvadorans who today live free from gang rule.

Respectfully,

Nayib Bukele

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

The irony of your announcement:

You logged into your dormant ad account to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer — to post a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.

As you may be aware, X believes everyone should have an equal voice on our platform. However, it seems you believe that the rules should not apply to your account.

Your ad account has been terminated.

[Flagright @FlagrightHQ]

📘 The Financial Crime Compliance Handbook is live on Amazon (Paperback + Kindle).

Demand for the handbook has been huge, and while we continue to approve and ship hardcopy and PDF requests every day, there are regions we can’t reach with physical delivery. Amazon fills that gap, making the handbook instantly accessible anywhere in the world.

If you’re in a region outside our shipping coverage, you can now get the handbook instantly on Kindle or order the paperback locally.

Same handbook. Same benchmark for modern fincrime programs. Now just a click away.

🔗Get your copy: https://t.co/9S6QMIKtsz

#AMLCompliance #TransactionMonitoring #RiskManagement