Jake
@iamjakestream
Investing to reinvent financial services at @btv_vc. Co-founder @NerdWallet Obsessed with money, space, fitness
Coaching founders in the 0->1 stage is what drew me to this job, and why I love it. If you're raising a pre-seed in fintech, or thinking about it, come work with me and the rest of the BTV team! themint.vc
Last year, we launched @TheMint_vc, a pre-seed investing program to better support fintech founders. If u want to learn more the program / why we did it, check out this 🧵 from @pitdesi If u want to join cohort #2 (Mar-May) or know folks who would be a good fit, hit us up!!
The only thing that sucks more than Miami is this song about how much Miami sucks.
Imagine having nearly every song in recorded history available at the touch of a fingertip and choosing to listen to Morgan Wallen - "Miami (feat. Lil Wayne and Rick Ross)" this morning.
The prediction market folks have discovered selling straddles
A trader @BuckMySalls (yes, his real name) is printing money betting that nothing will happen. Nearly $1 million in profit…
Twitter is absolutely NOT throttling the South Park videos and memes 🫣
There’s always a tweet
The White House says "South Park" is not "relevant," "hanging on by a thread," and a "fourth-rate show." The $1.5 billion Paramount is reportedly paying for five years of streaming rights begs to differ. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
I might have to start watching South Park again. Those guys still got it 😬
sharing a snapshot from our Q1 CY25 research dunning emails are a relic we are building agentic collections at @usemonk
Someone just learned what an ISDA is, and is calling others unsophisticated “investors” while he levers up to put on a risky trade that made less than just parking cash in MMF risk free
For those that watch the @theallinpod, you may remember that my most obvious trade idea heading into Jan was long the S&P Index and short the Mag7. Aka the “Mean Reversion Index Trade” Turned out to be free money. Very rare that the market gives you these kinds of fat pitches.
Um.
I am so fed up of the regurgitated Silicon Valley guests talking about frameworks and first principles BS. Give me people with insane stories who have never done shows. Give me people with real trauma and wisdom who will share it. Enough of the podcast circuit BS.
As a homeowner, I have been forced against my will to become one of those dads who has “projects” 🙄
I had a friend in college who worked for a startup that made spam filter software. That same company also made software to help you circumvent spam filters.
At their launch Cluely claimed it would kill 9 industries. We're here to kill just one: cheating. Meet Truely — the open-source tool that flags AI-assisted interviews in real time. Works with Zoom, Meets, Teams, and more. The future of online interviews is here.
Horse shit
just remembered that americans don’t have random old castles in the countryside that they can go and visit