Category: Leadership & Strategy
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Reflections on Robinhood’s checking & savings fiasco
We in fintech often confuse Type 1 vs 2 decisions—reversible/not reversible. Robinhood reversed it, yes, but at high cost. As great as tech is, disrupting existing systems first requires wading through minutiae of regs + history. It’s truly amazing to be part of companies and watch other companies move fast and do incredible things. And…
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Affirmation
You check your email. There may be a lot, or there may be a few, but tonight (and it’s Sunday night before a big week) you see one from your boss—or sometimes your boss’ boss. You click on it and see his question. It looks something like this: Hi [your name], Please give [name of…
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Your Team’s Shields Are Down
A couple years ago I read an article called Shields Down describing how people don’t quit the day they resign, they resigned their post a long time ago. It’s when they became vulnerable, when their shields went down that they were open to something new, something different—perhaps where the grass appeared greener. I was caught juxtaposing that…
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Make haste slowly.
Masters of Scale recently interviewed Ariana Huffington. It was a fantastic episode. Ariana made a statement about bad hiring: I can trace back all my hiring mistakes to being tired, which has the impact not just of impairing your cognitive abilities to make the right decisions but also subconsciously of making you want to say,…
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Opportunities In The Unexpected
Summer 2017 I read this article by Michael Hyatt entitled 7 Things to Ask When Bad Things Happen. It is a terrific article, and at that time I had the thought, “man, glad everything is going well and I don’t have to use it.” The very next day, one of my managers turned in his…
Jeff Beaumont 