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#052 Money 20/20, Fintech Innovations, and Interviewing Legends with Zach Anderson Pettet

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Travis Kalanik is one of the best people I've met in my life. All of his heart is completely in the right place. He's not a maniacally driven insane person that's like willing to make a kamakaze run at the US government. Most of them aren't run through walls kind of people. And most of them can like Jimmy Chen's a good anti-bahn example. They basically have built a fintech layer on top of the food stamp slash EBT system and allow people that are on EBT to, you can call it, am I not supposed to call it EBT anymore? What's it called? It's called something else

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Topics:

(4:25) - Recap the last episode with Zach and Eric

(5:34) - Fintech Industry Overview

(15:21) - Money 20/20 – the Biggest Fintech Conference in the world

(24:02) - Regulation looms over Fintech, always

(27:12) - The “Off The Record” Stage at Money 20/20

(29:28) - The CFPB and Rule 1033

(43:15) - Stripe, Adyen, Warren Buffett, and The Media

(49:01) - Behind the scenes at Money 20/20

(59:20) - How do you get Serena Williams on stage?

(1:01:58) - Holding the keys to so much potential ROI

(1:04:33) - Defining the relationship between a fintech org and a bank

(1:11:21) - Entrepreneurs buying their own community banks

(1:16:58) - The intersection of Crypto and Fintech

(1:27:11) - Is OnlyFans only a bad thing?

(1:35:34) - What is the overarching story that Money 20/20 tells?

(1:41:50) - Wrapping up

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