Miguel Armaza 🎙🎧
@MiguelArmaza
Fintech investor & General Partner @GilgameshVC | Podcast Host🎙& Author ✍️ @Fintech_Leaders | Alum @Wharton @LauderInstitute @AmericanU 🎓
We're proud to announce that we have closed @GilgameshVC Fund II, bringing our total assets under management to $35 million. We're more excited than ever to be able to support the founders building the future of financial services! Since launching in 2021, @A_Endo and I have…
Don't drop out of college to start or work for a startup. There will be other (and probably better) startup opportunities, but you can't get your college years back.
This seems a new low.
FIRE UP THE DEPORTATION PLANES!
This is true! There's no other way.
I've noticed a common trait amongst the most elite venture firms that stay elite: the most senior partners continue to play the ground game. They do their own research, source companies directly, take prodigious notes, write memos, dive into data rooms. They continue to take…
Few of them realize it, but people who say "I don’t think that we should have billionaires" are also saying "I don't think there should be startups," because successful startups inevitably produce billionaires. paulgraham.com/richnow.html
🎙️ There's been a lot written about AI roll-ups, but have you heard from the people building them? I just interviewed Steve Stagner, CEO of Crete Professionals Alliance, who's deploying $500 Million to acquire accounting firms and transform them with AI. Crete is backed by…
Shared some additional thoughts about Circle on Bloomberg @business today. Full article ▶️ bit.ly/4nofPQ7 Thank you @moniquebmul
Listen, I want Circle ($CRCL) to succeed and I like the company, but a PE Ratio of 2,900x is just ridiculous and meme stock territory.
Let's go!! More to come.
Announcing our Speaker line up for @FintechNerdCon ! It's Speaker Drop time 🎤 Over the past month, we’ve hand-picked these speakers to ask the questions we’d want to ask, and in the way we’d want to ask them. And they said yes. Check. This. Out. 👇 - @immad - @mercury CEO…
Listen, I want Circle ($CRCL) to succeed and I like the company, but a PE Ratio of 2,900x is just ridiculous and meme stock territory.
Can't let it happen
New York City please don’t do this to yourself —A San Franciscan
Paris in the summer sounds nice.
I just set aside $125,000 on my credit card to buy you and your +1 the most luxurious Paris vacation of your life. All you have to do is introduce me to a software engineer that I hire. I'll pay for 2 first-class round trip tickets, and a 5-star hotel. We are assembling the…
In this @Fintech_Leaders episode, I sit down with the amazing @EynatGuez, CEO and Co-Founder of @Papaya_Global. She has built a giant HR and payroll platform that has transformed how companies manage and operate global teams across 180 countries. After facing 1,000+ rejections…
Leaders and Readers
Ezra Klein: Part of what's happening when you spend seven hours reading a book is you spend seven hours with your mind on a given topic. But the idea that ChatGPT can summarize it for you is nonsense. The point is that books don't just give you information. They give you a…
For this @Fintech_Leaders episode, I sat down with @chenamit1, CEO and Founder of @tipalti, a global fintech platform that processes billions in payments globally and has achieved a remarkable 99% gross revenue retention rate by focusing on an often-overlooked segment: companies…
Thank you for your great contributions to our ecosystem, Mary Ann!! Second to none.
After 4+ years and over 1K stories, today is my last day as a staff writer at TechCrunch. I am so grateful for this experience. Working with amazingly smart, kind and funny people who I learned from on an almost daily basis has been a true privilege. The culture at TC is…
Black Mirror had an episode about this in their last season! Are we there? @blackmirror
Prompt Theory (Made with Veo 3) What if AI-generated characters refused to believe they were AI-generated?
Wow. Hopefully we see a future with a lot fewer cars?
Waymo now does more rides than Lyft in SF. There are only 300 Waymos. Lyft has 45,000 drivers. Every Waymo is doing more rides than 150 human drivers.
Perhaps the greatest celebrity story ever here, about ROGER MOORE. Give yourself a treat if you've not read it.
I thought this was @TheOnion, but it’s not per @washingtonpost
