Two-thirds of consumers (67%) believe their financial institutions should reimburse them for money lost in a scam even when they personally authorized the transaction
https://t.co/eYBtYb8k0I #fraud#scams
Josh Wolfe on the power of storytelling
“To believe a story and to have that shared belief - through language and customs - is extraordinarily powerful. It has been evolutionarily selected for.”
Lux Capital's @wolfejosh talks with @loganbartlett on The @loganbartshow about why startup founders need to be able to tell a compelling a story.
"It is the one technological device - the ability to conjure images in our minds and to believe them - that has persisted far beyond physical technology existed," Wolfe says.
Our State of Embedded Finance Report is live! We surveyed top US sponsor banks, and found that 80% of them find it challenging to meet embedded finance #compliance requirements. 🏦 Download the report for more insights: https://t.co/hFqt9CiTlB
🥁…Coming this August: Alloy’s 2024 State of Embedded Finance Report 🏦 ⚡
We surveyed the top U.S. sponsor banks on the embedded finance compliance challenges they're facing & how they’re responding.
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They key to fraud prevention according to @lauraspiekerman? Future-proofing so that your controls evolve with the pace of fraud. Listen to the full podcast from @11FS for more insights from Laura & @clear_bank's Charles McManus on fraud & embedded finance. https://t.co/kVpxTAVesV
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the media landscape has changed.
Please do not use all your PR budget on outsourced pitching and none of it on subscriptions. I recommend a $2000 a year minimum budget for subs.
Why?
— support media as it evolves
— be in the info flow
— speaking from experience, your outreach means more if you’re a supporter
an AI scoop from me on a foggy SF thursday that i thought was friday: @huggingface founder clem delangue told me that he's hearing from *10 AI startups per week* who want to sell themselves to the company. also! HF bought an AI startup, @argilla_io!
https://t.co/lX57GJnoIL
🚨 Just received a phone call from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office this afternoon. Officer reads off his badge number & proceeds to ask if this is [my name] located at [my address] w/ SSN# [reads last 4 of my social]. Fuck. Was walking through Costco as I took the call.
Tommy's grand theory of AI in SaaS:
- if AI is one of the primary things the product advertises, it is probably bad
- if the product happens to use AI but does not represent it as the primary benefit of the product, it's probably great
heads-up to fintech PR people that everyone in the industry sends pitches out on tuesday mornings.
if you want to stand out, hit inboxes on another day of the week.
Astronomy: The next eclipse will be on Aug. 23, 2044, starting in Greenland then visible from Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. 🎯
Meteorology: we are not sure if it’ll rain tomorrow, would you like various probabilities of potential outcomes? 🤷
"Thanks to Vector, the origins of the personal computer cannot be separated from the story of women in technology. The personal computer has always belonged to all of us."
https://t.co/9LH5uPAv7v