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Rex Salisbury
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Published in Cambrian

·Jul 26, 2022

Announcing Cambrian’s inaugural $20M venture fund to support the next generation of fintech founders!

and how I became an accidental venture capitalist by way of community building — 👋 Rex here :) Today, I’m thrilled to announce Cambrian’s inaugural $20 million fund to back the next generation of fintech founders at the angel, pre-seed & seed with checks up to $500k! I love fintech and ended up in a venture by way of community building. As Cambrian has…

Fintech

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Announcing Cambrian’s inaugural $20M venture fund to support the next generation of fintech…
Announcing Cambrian’s inaugural $20M venture fund to support the next generation of fintech…
Fintech

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Published in Cambrian

·Jun 13, 2022

My Fireside Chat w/ Plaid Founder, William Hockey on Building Column

Hear why William left Plaid in 2019 to start Column, “a nationally chartered bank that has built every facet of the technology from scratch” — In 2019, William announced he was stepping down for Plaid. For 3 years he and a small team worked in stealth on a new company, Column. Today we’re going to talk about that company. William describes Column as “a nationally chartered bank that has built every facet of the technology…

Fintech

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My Fireside Chat w/ Plaid Founder, William Hockey on Building Column
My Fireside Chat w/ Plaid Founder, William Hockey on Building Column
Fintech

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Published in Cambrian

·Jun 13, 2022

My Fireside Chat with Ken Lin, Founder & CEO at Credit Karma

Building Credit Karma was not easy. Ken raised the company’s first major round in 2009 during the Great Recession and in 2020 navigated the sale of the business during the early days of the covid pandemic, during which Credit Karma saw dramatic declines in revenue and faced the prospect of…

Fintech

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My Fireside Chat with Ken Lin, Founder & CEO at Credit Karma
My Fireside Chat with Ken Lin, Founder & CEO at Credit Karma
Fintech

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Published in Cambrian

·Mar 10, 2022

Building Chipper w/ Ham Serunjogi, Founder & CEO and Lead Investor Dan Kimerling

The story behind one of Africa’s most valuable startups — Recording: https://youtu.be/BVGCf7XzsRU In this fireside chat, I dive into the backstory of Chipper Cash, one of the most valuable startups in Africa valued at just over $2 billion. …

Fintech

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Building Chipper w/ Ham Serunjogi, Founder & CEO and Lead Investor Dan Kimerling
Building Chipper w/ Ham Serunjogi, Founder & CEO and Lead Investor Dan Kimerling
Fintech

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Published in Cambrian

·Nov 3, 2021

My fireside chat with Adam Nash, Co-Founder at Daffy

Make giving a habit with the “Donor-Advised Fund for You™” — Recording: https://youtu.be/EYtwwKZI8Mk Charitable giving is a big industry — $471 billion was donated 2020. But there is no reason it couldn’t be much much larger. The gap between philanthropic intent and action is tremendous (ie how much someone would like to give vs how much they actually give). This gap…

Fintech

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My fireside chat with Adam Nash, Co-Founder at Daffy
My fireside chat with Adam Nash, Co-Founder at Daffy
Fintech

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Published in Cambrian

·Oct 1, 2021

My fireside chat with Sherwin Gandhi, Co-Founder at Jeeves

Building a global borderless business bank — Really enjoyed hosting Sherwin Gandhi live in front of the Cambrian community to talk about “Building Jeeves”. Sherwin has a remarkable story to tell about how Jeeves is building the global borderless business bank based on insights he garnered as a bond trader at wall street, a startup leader struggling to manage their international financial footprint, and, now, as a founder.

Fintech

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My fireside chat with Sherwin Gandhi, Co-Founder at Jeeves
My fireside chat with Sherwin Gandhi, Co-Founder at Jeeves
Fintech

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Published in Cambrian

·Sep 20, 2021

How This Startup Proves NFTs Can Solve Fundamental Problems In Finance

Fabrica uses NFTs to sell low-value plots of land 100% online. — This story first appeared on Forbes. If you look past the tremendous hype surrounding NFTs, you can see the beginnings of how this new technology is being used to tackle real, fundamental problems that have long plagued financial markets. One of the core problems in finance is high cost, high…

Fintech

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How This Startup Proves NFTs Can Solve Fundamental Problems In Finance
How This Startup Proves NFTs Can Solve Fundamental Problems In Finance
Fintech

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Published in Cambrian

·Sep 17, 2021

My fireside chat w/ Naftali Harris, Co-Founder & CEO of SentiLink

We discussed how the discovery of a new type of fraud led Naftali, the first data scientist at Affirm, to start a new company that now serves over 100 customers from fintechs to the nation’s largest banks. — Naftali is a great example of one of the most exciting trends in fintech that we often talk about at Cambrian — the explosion of talented entrepreneurs.¹ …

Fintech

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My fireside chat w/ Naftali Harris, Co-Founder & CEO of SentiLink
My fireside chat w/ Naftali Harris, Co-Founder & CEO of SentiLink
Fintech

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Apr 2, 2019

How to make cars the engine for middle class prosperity (just like housing)

Cars are great as a way to get places, but they make terrible investments. Who hasn’t heard the tired phrase, “your new vehicle loses 20% as soon as you drive it off the lot”? What if it didn’t? What if you could buy a car AND it could increase in…

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Published in Cambrian

·Jan 19, 2019

Jack Bogle and what today’s entrepreneurs can learn from Vanguard

Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard, has died at age 89. Few, if any, have done as much to transform the investment industry to the vast benefit of the investor. If you are working at a fintech company today, you could learn a lot from Jack. There are many lessons, but…

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Investing

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