I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with Kamran Ansari, Partner at Headline Ventures. We talk about public markets, private markets, why he’s convinced Stripe isn’t going public in 2024, and some other smokin’ hot takes.

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Kamran on LinkedIn

Headline

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Topics:

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:01:27) - Kamran’s journey into VC

(00:05:05) - The early days of Venmo

(00:11:52) - Working in corporate development with Pinterest

(00:15:14) - The importance of people and recruiting

(00:25:04) - Stripe will not IPO in 2024 PERIOD

(00:32:43) - Predictions for NeoBanks

(00:35:16) - Chime

(00:40:40) - SPACs and Better

(00:46:02) - The Capital One/Discover deal

(00:54:37) - How do you start a bank?

(00:56:56) - Kamran’s day-to-day life and work

**note on Venmo: The deal happened before Kamran joined. He ended up finding deep alignment with the founders and ended up working closely with the team as a Board Observer as well as a Leader and Advisor in many capacities.

We have a VERY Special episode for y’all, I sat down with not one…but THREE amazing women in Fintech to discuss the world of PR and Comms for our industry. Erin Bruehl, VP of Comms at Current, Meg Stinson, Co-Founder of CMAND, and Kelly Soderlund, Head of Comms at Navan all give the what’s what on how to succeed in this

world.

Enjoy!!

Links:

Kelly on X

Erin on X

Meg on X

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Topics:

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:03:16) - Introducing the housewives & Vegas gossip

(00:10:28) - What do good and bad pitches look like?

(00:32:10) - How important are tech journalists vs. micro-influencers?

(00:45:15) - How much are we supposed to answer reporters?

(00:54:19) - Building incentive alignments

(00:57:26) - Dealing with internal conflicts of interest, communicating with reporters, and the reality of PR life

(01:11:24) - Are press releases dead?

(01:21:16) - Wrap up

We bring back a fan-favorite of the show: Alex Johnson. But this time we don’t chat over Zoom, we had to do this Podcast face-to-face. Because I needed Alex to deep-dive into how the credit world works…

Enjoy!

Links:

Fintech Takes

Alex on X

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Topics:

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:03:40) - Alex’s career in the credit world

(00:16:38) - The year banking changed forever

(00:19:31) - Federally chartered banks

(00:23:58) - How has credit scoring kept up with innovation?

(00:39:34) - Credit building theory & Buy Now Pay Later

(00:44:30) - Do we need another credit bureau?

(00:467:11) - Where would you build within the credit scoring industry if you were a founder?