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Fintech Roundup: How going Fast and furious can ruin your startup

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And if you want to have this hit your inbox directly once it officially turns into a newsletter on May 1, sign up here. The big events in the fintech world over the last week felt like a very different vibe from 2021, which was filled with mega rounds, celebrations and lofty valuations. Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column.

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Finix goes head-to-head with Stripe

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To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. The SaaS startup — which started out in early 2020 by selling its payments tech to other businesses — raised a $35 million Series B led by Sequoia. Welcome to The Interchange, a take on this week’s fintech news and trends. We’ve all been keeping up with the recent drama of Stripe vs. Plaid.

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Fintech Roundup: Goldman Sachs buys another startup, Fast hits a speed bump and BaaS gets hotter

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And if you want to have this hit your inbox directly once it officially turns into a newsletter on May 1, sign up here. Founded in 2013 (or 2014 depending on the source), the Chicago-based company has raised over $82 million in funding over its lifetime from investors such as FinTech Collective and Oak HC/FT , according to Crunchbase.

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Extra Crunch roundup: How Duolingo became an edtech leader

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Part 2: Product-led growth strategy “ The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app ” (3,000 words/12 minutes) — analyzes the tactics and tradeoffs that an edtech company has to evaluate as it grows from thousands to 500 million registered learners. As of Q1 2021, the number of fintech startups in the U.S. Eric Eldon.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

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It was announced on May 12 that Linda Yaccarino will step in as the next X CEO. Our data licensing and API with X is an incredible business. Our new subscription business [is] growing,” Yaccarino said. Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter ( now X ), where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.

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AI Adoption in the Enterprise 2022

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In December 2021 and January 2022, we asked recipients of our Data and AI Newsletters to participate in our annual survey on AI adoption. This year’s survey ran during the holiday season (December 8, 2021, to January 19, 2022, though we received very few responses in the new year); last year’s ran from January 27, 2021, to February 12, 2021.