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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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      82/ There are substantial opportunities available both within traditional finance and within startups to become a domain expert at the other industry and explain/advocate/plan/etc within one's own industry. (Some folks will end up doing white elephant projects, but not all.)

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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      83/ Every startup offering financial services has both an integration with their partners and then named people on speed dial who they can call when the integration breaks. Sometimes this by necessity means a lot of people in a lot of places.

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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      84/ This goes in the other direction, too, and it's both terrifying and sort of beautiful. If a tiny bank in, I don't know, Ireland has a backhoe hit their Internet connection, it is moderately likely that the 1st person in outside world who notices is a little fish in big pond.

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    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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      85/ (The general contents of the first phone call would be "Hey, this is your account manager at $COUNTERPARTY. I was just checking and it doesn't look like we got the upload for today... any color for me? Resubmit window closes in...")

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    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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      86/ Because large financial firms have competing fiefdoms and organizational subcultures in much the same way that large tech companies do, it makes a lot of difference to strategy and day-to-day operations which fiefdom the CEO/etc came up in, just like in tech companies.

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    6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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      87/ @cperciva pointed out that I missed two items and duplicated another one, which brings up an important point: despite being the canonical use case for ACID databases, almost all financial firms aspire for (and achieve) "eventual consistency, almost all of the time."

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    7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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      88/ Financial firms are likely to slightly, but not much more than slightly, lag enterprise SaaS with respect to adoption of sales and account management via webinar and 1:1 videoconferencing. This can 5X utilization of advisor while having them be in a cheaper city than client.

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    8. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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      89/ The most interesting thing which is widely deployed in Japanese banks that I haven't seen in US banks, but which will inevitably be deployed in US banks, is phonebooths with videoconferencing software and ID-reading hardware connected to a call center.

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    9. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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      90/ This will be generally good for customers who want more human touchpoints, and will bring down the OPEX of account opening and servicing substantially. It will, less fortunately, further cause deskilling of the branch-based bank employee, which has been ongoing for decades.

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    10. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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      91/ (The availability of backoffice doesn't by itself make branch bankers less capable; it means a business process which historically trained them to answer the range of everyday to sophisticated financial problems encountered by anyone in their area doesn't need to exist.)

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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      92/ There are many problems in startup financial services which are technical problems, but there are virtually none which are uniquely solved by adoption of an architecture, language, stack, etc. Most of the technical problems are "How do people/organizations work together?"

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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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          93/ You might sensibly say that "'How people work together' is more a management problem than a technical problem" but in this case the controlling abstraction is sometimes *very literally* where you draw the API boundaries.

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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          94/ People from finance backgrounds and people from tech backgrounds have extremely different ways of looking at the same artifacts, often coming to the conclusion that "This makes no sense and it is impossible you got this far without having some competent adult supervision."

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        4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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          95/ Although you would think that both finance and tech would naturally cater to the wealthiest members of society and so they would consistently have access to the best services, a combination of Innovator's Dilemma and Worse-Is-Better means that future is present on fringes.

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        5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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          96/ Examples of this: M-Pesa was one of the world's most advanced (and best distributed in customer set) payment networks within years, and relatively not-too-rich folks using the US->Mexico remittance corridor have much better FX pricing than rich Americans.

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        6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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          97/ In my experience, more people in the US (and, broadly, Western) financial industries should be paying attention to customer-facing UXes from Asia. QR code payments are probably underestimated, in the same way that QR codes themselves were underestimated.

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        7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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          98/ Virtually every conceivable subfield on the intersection of these two industries could justify its own hundred tweets blurbing a shelf of books covering a variety of costly learnings. Fraud. Identity verification and management. FX risk. Behavior during financial crises. etc

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        8. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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          99/ All of the professionals in tech and finance who make decisions which affect the systems that your live depends on work on the same Internet you do. Many would be happy to get coffee. Relatively few feel like enough people care about their line of work.

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        9. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Dec 2019
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          100/ It occurs to me that in 99 tweets I haven't even mentioned cryptocurrency, which feels appropriate given its demonstrated level of impact. </rimshot> Alright, that was fun. Don't love this form factor, but let me know if subtopics here are worth an essay sometime.

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