Stripe: Enabling the growth of the Internet’s GDP!
Stripe – Redefining the online payments space.
Finance
Betterment – Investing automated for masses
How Robo-advisors like Betterment are democratizing wealth management for the masses at fraction of cost.
Goldman Sachs: A Bull in the Digital Age
A decade ago, Goldman Sachs executive Gary Cohn was asked if he’d license the bank’s proprietary securities pricing software, SecDB, for $1.0 billion. He said no. How about $5.0 billion? Maybe. Today, Goldman Sachs gives away SecDB for free. What […]
Danske Bank – A winner in digitalization
How Danske Bank, a Danish bank from 1871, embraced disruption and managed to become a leader in digital innovation.
Renaissance Technologies: Generating Alpha without Wall Street Veterans or MBAs
How a team of mathematicians, computer scientists, and physicists is beating the market
Is There a Correlation Between Data Analysis and Hubris?
The fall of Ryan Kavanaugh and Relativity Media.
Wealthfront and the Future of Robo Advisors
Wealthfront has disrupted the financial advisory industry by using analytics and algorithms to automate investment decisions. Will it be able to sustain its success?
Crowdsourcing for Large and Medium Sized Private Equity Firms
private equity and retail investors: disrupting fund of funds
AngelList Syndicates: Crowdsourcing the Limited Partner role
AngelList – an investing platform with the tagline “Where the world meets startups” – has historically been a platform where angel investors could review self-created profiles from aspiring entrepreneurs (think LinkedIn for startups). If an angel investor liked what they […]
Motif Investing: Democratizing investment selection for retail investors
The traditional model of personal investing looks like this: individuals like you and me either sign up for a brokerage account, select investments and construct our own portfolios (“the DIY approach”) or hire a financial advisor that makes investment suggestions […]