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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Almost every successful tech consultant I've met consistently, and in this order, reorganises the business, then delivers a tech solution to support said business. Can be delivered in a micro services incremental fashion, noting substantially agreed strategy before reduces risks.
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