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In this episode, we interview Olya Caliujnaia, the CEO and co-founder at Sanlo.io, on a mission to help game businesses thrive revenues. Olya shares her entrepreneurial journey, from growing up in a family of resilient entrepreneurs, to eventually founding her own company in the gaming industry. Before Sanlo, Olya managed product and growth at Playfish, EA, Getty Images, SigFig, Wells Fargo and worked with early-stage companies as an entrepreneur-in-residence at XYZ Venture Capital. Olya shares her process, trial and error of finding the right co-founder, the early stages of customer discovery, and the importance of building a committed and complementary co-founder team. Olya also talks about the products Sanlo offers, including web shops and capital financing for gaming companies, and emphasizes the importance of financial health and sustainable monetization, as vital components of a game business. More on Sanlo.io: https://www.sanlo.io/ 01:33 CEO Olya Caliujnaia's Journey: From Product Leader to Gaming Entrepreneur 02:12 The Entrepreneurial Path: Olya's Journey to Founding Sanlo.io 09:41 The Co-Founder Search: Lessons Learned and Finding the Right Match 12:40 Customer Discovery and Product Development Insights, Pivoting to PMF 18:01 Building a Team and Overcoming Challenges in the Gaming Startup World 24:36 SanloToday: Products, Vision, and the Future 29:08 Closing Thoughts and Future Directions

Informationen zur Sendung:Heute wird es fotografisch, denn wir haben uns den Ukulele spielenden Fotografen den der ein oder andere von Instagram kennt eingeladen und hoffentlich hat er heute seine 10.000 Folllower nicht mitgebracht, sonst verstehen wir hier gleich kein Wort mehr. Die Rede ist natürlich von Tim aka wattn_stein. Bekannt wurde Tim auf seinem Instagram Kanal mit seinen vielen verschiedenen Bildern, in der eine Minifigur mit tollen Hintergründen perfekt in Szene gesetzt wird. Seitdem er eine Spiegelreflexkamera besitzt, ist keine Minifigur mehr vor ihm sicher. So sind bis heute hunderte wunderschöne Fotos entstanden, wobei einige auf Leinwänden verewigt wurden. Diese bietet Tim in drei verschiedenen Größen zum Verkauf an. Aber auch wer eine eigene Minifigur in Szene gesetzt haben möchte, ist bei Tim gut aufgehoben. Auch wir durften uns von seinem Können überzeugen als er kurzerhand ein tolles Foto unserer SigFig geschossen hat. Aber was der Ukulele spielende Klemmbaustein-Fan noch so alles zu erzählen hat, erfahrt ihr in der Sendung. Viel Spaß beim zuhören und achtet auf das Intro. Moderatoren der Sendung:Lars Wilczak, Carsten Herzberg Links zur Sendung:Instagram Band Schudzig Germanbricks Collab Verein der Kunstfreunde Tiktok Bausteinkammer Folge direkt herunterladen Klemmbaustein Podcast - Nur bei uns gibt es lockere Plaudereien, Interviews, Debatten, Meinungen News & mehr rund um die Noppensteine in deiner Hosentasche

(00:00) Intro(01:25) Parker's Early Life and Education(02:08) Parker's Experience at Harvard and Early Career(05:21) Parker's Journey to Entrepreneurship(08:27) The Founding of Sigfig and Challenges Faced(10:15) The Birth of Zenefits and its Rapid Growth(13:13) The Downfall of Zenefits and Lessons Learned(19:12) Parker's Perspective on Media Narratives and VC Involvement(35:48) The Power of Investors and Branding(37:22) The Influence of Media on Investment Success(38:42) The Role of Venture Capitalists and Founders(39:39) The Impact of Social Media on Business(40:48) The Rise of Andreessen Horowitz(41:18) Introducing Rippling: A New Approach to Business Software(41:32) The Power of Employee Data in Business Software(49:47) The Advantages of Compound Companies(56:13) The Role of Founders in Business Units(01:09:20) The State of San Francisco and the Tech Industry Produced: Rashad Assir & Leah ClapperMixed and edited: Justin HrabovskyExecutive Producer: Josh Machiz

Guests: Parker Conrad, CEO of Rippling, and Mamoon Hamid, partner at Kleiner PerkinsHow long did it take for Parker Conrad to stop wanting revenge? “I'll let you know when it switches over,” the Rippling CEO and co-founder jokes. He resigned from his last company, the buzzy HR unicorn Zenefits, in 2016 and then quickly realized that the company's new leaders would never return it to its former glory. He still loved the problems he had been trying to solve, and launched Rippling because “there was an opportunity there, [and] if it works ... it's going to be fundamentally and foundationally better as a product.” It worked. As of March, Rippling has been valued at more than $11 billion, more than double Zenefits' peak.In this episode, Parker, Mamoon, and Joubin discuss what happened at Zenefits, avoiding press coverage, FOMO and expectations, Paul Graham, fixing corporate insurance, Ryan Peterson's “revenge portfolio,” CEO coaches, Mike Vernal, approving expenses, anecdata, and the Costco of SaaS. In this episode, we cover: How Parker and Mamoon met (00:56) The Zenefits Series B (06:29)  “Stuck in a nightmare” (09:20)  Entrepreneurship is “soul-destroying” (12:46)  Parker's first company, SigFig (17:17)  Starting a company for the right reasons (21:02)  Starting over after Zenefits (27:06)  Avenging Zenefits (31:57)  Rippling's unusual Series A (38:40)  What it does well (43:13)  “Go and see” (46:35)  The compound startup (51:44) Who Rippling is hiring and what “grit” means to Parker (01:00:39)  Links: Connect with Parker Twitter LinkedIn Connect with Joubin Twitter LinkedIn Email: grit@kleinerperkins.com  Learn more about Kleiner Perkins This episode was edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm

Rohan Handa is the Founding Member and Head of Business Development at Horizen Labs Ventures. HLV is the premiere Web3 advisory services and solutions company, where he managed the successful launch of ApeCoin (creating over $8Bn in value), Otherside (sold for over $300M), and ApeStaking Protocol, and was responsible for closing new projects, including The Sandbox, Jam City, Dust Labs and others.   Previously, Rohan has helped build out the multi-million dollar venture arm for BBVA, investing and managing a portfolio of startups building products at the bleeding edge of technology creating over $50M in value. He started his career as management consultant at EY, and worked in US and Southeast Asia managing M&A and Strategy projects for his clients including Barclays, PayPal, Charles Schwab, SigFig and many others.   Rohan is also an active angel investor and advisor for startups in the fintech, crypto/blockchain and deeptech spaces. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crypto-hipster-podcast/support

Hiren Patel is the Head of Advisor Solutions at 55ip, a fintech company dedicated to breaking down the barriers to financial progress. By using its tax-smart investment strategy engine, 55ip helps financial advisors dramatically improve their efficiency and effectiveness. Hiren served as an Advisor Engagement Manager for SigFig from 2019 until joining the 55ip team in 2022. He served Merrill Lynch for over seven years as their Managed Solutions Specialist and Merrill Edge Performance Management VP. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Rutgers University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Fox School of Business at Temple University.   Hiren joins us today to discuss how 55ip helps financial advisors break down barriers to financial progress and scale their businesses. He outlines 55ip's tax strategies and how they help financial advisors make shifts in their careers. He offers advice on direct indexing. Hiren also explains how fintech can help financial advisors get time back in their businesses, increase their value proposition, or transition seamlessly to the RIA space.   “It's hard to save and stock money for the rainy day, but it's actually the easy part of investing. The hard part is getting the money out efficiently and effectively.” - Hiren Patel   This week on The Model FA Podcast:   Hiren's background, work experience at Merrill Lynch, and journey to 55ip COVID-19 and the shift of financial advisors toward the RIA channel What 55ip is and how they help financial advisors create scale and efficiency Tax-marked transitioning and automated tax-loss harvesting Tax-marked withdrawals and demonstrating value to clients Reviewing 2022's volatile market and tax-loss harvesting Why tax-loss harvesting can be challenging for financial advisors How 55ip helps financial advisors address the challenges related to model customization and personalization Bringing back the value of time in a financial advisor's business Direct indexing for financial advisors   Resources Mentioned:   Book: Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin   Our Favorite Quotes:   “Putting together a thoughtful plan saves a considerable amount of time at execution and eliminates human error.” - David DeCelle “Any time you can buy back and leverage your time, you can grow your business or increase your lifestyle.” - David DeCelle “Tax harvesting is a great strategy that provides value and some additional returns in a negative market, but it needs to be done and executed effectively.” - Hiren Patel   Connect with Hiren Patel:   55ip Hiren Patel on LinkedIn Email: info@55-ip.com   About the Model FA Podcast   The Model FA podcast is a show for fiduciary financial advisors. In each episode, our host David DeCelle sits down with industry experts, strategic thinkers, and advisors to explore what it takes  to build a successful practice — and have an abundant life in the process. We believe in continuous learning, tactical advice, and strategies that work — no “gotchas” or BS. Join us to hear stories from successful financial advisors, get actionable ideas from experts, and re-discover your drive to build the practice of your dreams.    Did you like this conversation? Then leave us a rating and a review in whatever podcast player you use. We would love your feedback, and your ratings help us reach more advisors with ideas for growing their practices, attracting great clients, and achieving a better quality of life. While you are there, feel free to share your ideas about future podcast guests or topics you'd love to see covered.    Our Team: President of Model FA, David DeCelle   If you like this podcast, you will love our community! Join the Model FA Community on Facebook to connect with like-minded advisors and share the day-to-day challenges and wins of running a growing financial services firm.

Despite the early successes of some of the robo-advice platforms, good financial advice is still something that is difficult to scale. The wealthy often work with professional advisors and the rest of us manage it ourselves where there is limited advice and often the accumulated assets just sit in retirement accounts being ignored. But that could be able to change.My next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is Mike Sha, the CEO and Co-Founder of SigFig. They are on a mission to deliver quality advice at scale and are working with some of the largest financial institutions in the country. But even Mike agrees much more needs to be done and they are looking at advice beyond wealth management to provide a more holistic approach.In this podcast you will learn:How Mike's time at Amazon helped shape his thoughts on customer experience.The founding story of SigFig and what preceded it.How their first commercial product, a portfolio tracking tool, was developed.The behavior patterns of the two types of investors.The opportunity provided by the coming massive transfer of wealth from baby boomers.How they work with banks and wealth management firms.Some of the bigger clients they serve.Why people hire financial advisors today.How SigFig has expanded beyond investments.How their new platform called Engage grew out of the pandemic.Mike's view on the UBS-Wealthfront acquisition/breakup saga this year.How he thinks about the direct-to-consumer robo-advisor model and why they chose b2b.What's next for SigFig.Connect with Fintech One-on-One: Tweet me @PeterRenton Connect with me on LinkedIn Find previous Fintech One-on-One episodes

Wealth management has long been focused on investment products – stocks, bonds, and mutual funds – but there is a shift taking place in the industry. A growing number of wealth management firms are seeing the value in shifting their focus from investment products to investment processes.  In this episode, Jack Sharry talks with Randy Bullard, Global Head of Wealth at Charles River Development. Before joining Charles River Development, Randy served as General Manager of Wealth Management at SigFig. At Charles River, Randy leads the Charles River Wealth Management business globally. He is responsible for the firm's wealth product strategy and growth of the business with a heavy focus on client satisfaction.  Randy talks with Jack about the secular shift from investment products to the investment process in wealth management. He also speaks about the current state of wealth management in the digital age, the future of comprehensive advice platforms, and coordinating wealthtech capabilities. Key Takeaways [01:06] - What Charles River Development has to offer its clients. [03:10] - How Randy got into wealth management. [05:10] - A look back at Placemark Investments. [09:23] - What Randy brings to Charles River Development. [12:12] - The current state of wealth management in the digital age. [14:59] - The future of comprehensive advice platforms. [18:09] - Coordinating wealthtech capabilities. [23:03] - What's next for portfolio personalization? [25:51] - Randy's top three takeaways. Quotes [13:32] - "Direct indexing, hyper-personalization, increased focus on tax optimization, and ESG application at an individual investor level are all manifestations of this transition from product to process, which we're undergoing in the industry right now." ~ Randy Bullard [16:08] - "UMH is a process. It's a way of collecting disconnected things and making decisions at a client level that span all the stuff the client has. And so it's a process, not a product." ~ Randy Bullard [26:08] - "Most asset managers are not doing well in this transition from an investment product to an investment process. We have to find ways to turn their value add and value proposition into data and information they can sell." ~ Randy Bullard Links  Randy Bullard on LinkedIn Charles River Development State Street Envestnet Parametric Portfolio Associates RBC Wealth Management UBS Wealthfront Connect with our hosts LifeYield Jack Sharry on LinkedIn Jack Sharry on Twitter Subscribe and stay in touch Apple Podcasts Spotify LinkedIn Twitter Facebook

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The post Ep. 147: June News Roundup appeared first on and was written by Craig Iskowitz. Companies Mentioned Adhesion Wealth [02:30] Asset-Map [29:30] AssetMark [02:30] Brinker [11:00] CogniCore [21:10] Envestnet [04:05] First Ascent [10:45] FPalpha [29:30] fpPathfinder [29:30] Lumiant [27:37] Morningstar [11:00] Orion [07:38] Pershing [13:12] Right Capital [31:15] Sawtooth [08:50] Schwab [10:15] SEI [11:00] SigFig [07:55] Simplicity Group [09:30] TD Ameritrade [10:15] TIFIN [26:17] Vestmark [02:40] Wealth Simple [26:50] Topics […] The post Ep. 147: June News Roundup appeared first on and was written by Craig Iskowitz.

Financial Services has historically been a fairly low tech space. Mike Sha, CEO and Co-founder of Sigfig join us to discuss the way fintech is transforming the investing and banking experience. SigFig prioritizes collaboration with the banking industry to enable them to connect with consumers in a personal way, having a powerful impact through customer centric digital engagement. Read show notes and more! :https://www.soarpay.com/2022/03/sigfig

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In this conversation, we chat with Aaron Klein, the co-founder and CEO at Riskalyze. Aaron's career has largely been at the intersection of finance and technology. As co-founder and CEO at Riskalyze, he led the company to twice being named one of the world's top 10 most innovative companies in finance by Fast Company Magazine. Today, over 200 Riskalyzers serve thousands of advisors who have aligned the world's investments with millions of investors' Risk Numbers®. Aaron has served as a Sierra College Trustee, and in his spare time, he co-founded a school project for orphans and vulnerable kids in Ethiopia. Investment News has honored him as one of the industry's top 40 Under 40 executives. More specifically, we touch on the journey of entrepreneurship, Political campaign fintech and website development, roboadvisors vs. automated trading rebalancing, the future of wealth management and financial advice, and so so much more!!

Click Subscribe to keep up to date on the world of fintech!  Reach us at info@fintechnewscast.com or at @fintechnewscast on Twitter We have a fun conversation on wealth tech trends, building great teams and smart ways to think about your investments with Mike Sha the CEO and Co-Founder of SigFig https://www.sigfig.com

As much as business owners know the importance of hiring, they also know it means paperwork. Lots of it. Health insurance, taxes and payroll typically require separate software, while the hardware, security passwords, and applications employees need to do their job exist within their own set of systems. To top it all off, the HR industry as a whole has been slow to embrace technology, perpetuating these complex processes.Parker Conrad struggled with these challenges himself when he founded his first company, SigFig, in 2007.  After spending hours repeatedly faxing employee records at Kinko's for every new hire, he knew the HR industry was ripe for a revamp. In this episode, host Ilana Strauss finds out how this realization led him to start–and leave–Zenefits, why he spent nearly two years in his basement building a new product, and how it all led to the launch of Rippling in 2018, a company now valued at more than $6.5 billion.You'll hear from founder Parker Conrad about the struggle to launch his third start up, from Chief Marketing Officer Matt Epstein about the market gap for better HR software, and from HR consultant Joey Price, who explains why his industry has been slow to adopt technology. When It Clicked is an original podcast from ClickUp. For a transcript of this episode and other extras, check out When It Clicked - Rippling.

Sometimes social media works and sometimes it doesn't. For Matt Epstein, Chief Marketing Officer at Rippling, it is a little bit of both. In 2011, Matt went viral after uploading a Youtube video detailing why Google should hire him. It was also accompanied by a propeller plane with his URL attached, flying over the Google campus. Apparently, Google was not impressed, however, this bold decision ultimately worked in his favor. The video attracted many companies, which eventually led to the beginning of a fast-paced and fulfilling marketing career.In this episode, Matt discusses his unconventional way of attracting Google's attention and what it was like to pass on other companies in lieu. He talks about how his brashness, which as he puts it, is just a “chip on his shoulder”, attracted the attention of Rippling founder, Parker Conrad. Now, he is along for the ride as he surrounds himself with other like-minded “crazy ones.” Matt also shares his take on why generalists and marketing ops should be “first hires” in SMB and SaaS, and how when you've got something to prove in that space it only increases your ambition. In this episode, we cover:  How Matt's plea to work for Google went viral - and why he hates social media. (01:48) Matt's professional evolution from SigFig to employee #1 at Zenefits and his role in garnering the first customers. (08:04) Why Matt recommends generalists and marketing ops as the first hires in the SMB SaaS space - and a deep dive into how a “chip on your shoulder” and insecurity are powerful motivators for success. (17:00) Matt's decision-making process from applying to Google to passing up on job offers from major tech companies - and Matt reflects on lessons learned at Zenefits. (24:16) How Rippling founder, Parker Conrad, convinced Matt to join the company - and Matt explores the next phase of Rippling's app ecosystem. (34:26) Matt's thoughts on Rippling's recent product launch, marketing their catalog of products, and the challenges of scaling up at a startup. (44:32) A discussion about coping with pressure, why Matt looks for “the crazy ones” when hiring, and why he has no interest in being a founder. (53:26) Links: Connect with Matt LinkedIn Email: mepstein@rippling.com Rippling Connect with Joubin Twitter LinkedIn Email: gtmg@kleinerperkins.com  Learn more about Kleiner Perkins

In today's episode we will be talking to Trier Bryant about following and leadership. You can find her bio in the description and on our website. Please stay tuned after the guest discussion for skill highlights. www.AmplifyVoices.io About our guest: Trier Bryant is currently Co-Founder and CEO of Just Work LLC. She co-founded this company with Kim Scott, NYT best selling author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Just Work: Get *t Done Fast and Fair, to help organizations and individuals create more equitable workplaces. Trier is a strategic executive with distinctive Tech, Wall Street, and military experience spanning over 15 years. She has been featured as an influential diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practitioner by several publications and outlets from USA Today to CNN and SXSW. Trier has an unwavering commitment to create more equitable, inclusive, and thriving workplaces that produce prosperous companies. The depth of her work ranges from recruiting, talent development, performance management, compensation, communications, and brand strategy. Additionally, Trier advises leading companies like Atlassian, Equinox, Airbnb, SoundCloud, Alto, Rockefeller Foundation, and others on their talent and DEI strategies. Most recently, Trier was the first Chief People Officer (CPO) at Astra, an aerospace company building low orbital rockets to launch a new generation of services to connect and improve life on earth. She was also the VP of People and Workplace Experience at SigFig, a global FinTech company striving to empower everyone to achieve their financial goals with customer centric financial solutions. She led teams in six offices across four countries developing and operationalizing initiatives that optimize employees' impact and experience. Prior to leading full People/HR teams, Trier was the Global Head of Revenue, G&A (Corporate Functions), University, and Diversity Recruiting at Twitter responsible for over 70% of hires. As a member of Twitter's People Leadership Team, Trier led multiple initiatives across various HR disciplines including compensation, L&D, mobility, and inclusion. In addition to her day-to-day Talent Acquisition responsibilities, she partnered across various teams on both Engineering, Product, Design, and Revenue (Sales & Partnerships) to provide input on product functionality and client deliverables--most notably the multi-million dollar Black Panther Twitter activation and the Twitter Safety Council to combat abuse on the platform. 

In today's episode we will be talking to Trier Bryant about following and leadership. You can find her bio in the description and on our website. Please stay tuned after the guest discussion for skill highlights. www.AmplifyVoices.ioAbout our guest: Trier Bryant is currently Co-Founder and CEO of Just Work LLC. She co-founded this company with Kim Scott, NYT best selling author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Just Work: Get *t Done Fast and Fair, to help organizations and individuals create more equitable workplaces. Trier is a strategic executive with distinctive Tech, Wall Street, and military experience spanning over 15 years. She has been featured as an influential diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practitioner by several publications and outlets from USA Today to CNN and SXSW. Trier has an unwavering commitment to create more equitable, inclusive, and thriving workplaces that produce prosperous companies. The depth of her work ranges from recruiting, talent development, performance management, compensation, communications, and brand strategy. Additionally, Trier advises leading companies like Atlassian, Equinox, Airbnb, SoundCloud, Alto, Rockefeller Foundation, and others on their talent and DEI strategies. Most recently, Trier was the first Chief People Officer (CPO) at Astra, an aerospace company building low orbital rockets to launch a new generation of services to connect and improve life on earth. She was also the VP of People and Workplace Experience at SigFig, a global FinTech company striving to empower everyone to achieve their financial goals with customer centric financial solutions. She led teams in six offices across four countries developing and operationalizing initiatives that optimize employees' impact and experience. Prior to leading full People/HR teams, Trier was the Global Head of Revenue, G&A (Corporate Functions), University, and Diversity Recruiting at Twitter responsible for over 70% of hires. As a member of Twitter's People Leadership Team, Trier led multiple initiatives across various HR disciplines including compensation, L&D, mobility, and inclusion. In addition to her day-to-day Talent Acquisition responsibilities, she partnered across various teams on both Engineering, Product, Design, and Revenue (Sales & Partnerships) to provide input on product functionality and client deliverables--most notably the multi-million dollar Black Panther Twitter activation and the Twitter Safety Council to combat abuse on the platform. 

In today's episode we will be talking to Trier Bryant about following and leadership. You can find her bio in the description and on our website. Please stay tuned after the guest discussion for skill highlights. www.AmplifyVoices.ioAbout our guest: Trier Bryant is currently Co-Founder and CEO of Just Work LLC. She co-founded this company with Kim Scott, NYT best selling author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Just Work: Get *t Done Fast and Fair, to help organizations and individuals create more equitable workplaces. Trier is a strategic executive with distinctive Tech, Wall Street, and military experience spanning over 15 years. She has been featured as an influential diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practitioner by several publications and outlets from USA Today to CNN and SXSW. Trier has an unwavering commitment to create more equitable, inclusive, and thriving workplaces that produce prosperous companies. The depth of her work ranges from recruiting, talent development, performance management, compensation, communications, and brand strategy. Additionally, Trier advises leading companies like Atlassian, Equinox, Airbnb, SoundCloud, Alto, Rockefeller Foundation, and others on their talent and DEI strategies. Most recently, Trier was the first Chief People Officer (CPO) at Astra, an aerospace company building low orbital rockets to launch a new generation of services to connect and improve life on earth. She was also the VP of People and Workplace Experience at SigFig, a global FinTech company striving to empower everyone to achieve their financial goals with customer centric financial solutions. She led teams in six offices across four countries developing and operationalizing initiatives that optimize employees' impact and experience. Prior to leading full People/HR teams, Trier was the Global Head of Revenue, G&A (Corporate Functions), University, and Diversity Recruiting at Twitter responsible for over 70% of hires. As a member of Twitter's People Leadership Team, Trier led multiple initiatives across various HR disciplines including compensation, L&D, mobility, and inclusion. In addition to her day-to-day Talent Acquisition responsibilities, she partnered across various teams on both Engineering, Product, Design, and Revenue (Sales & Partnerships) to provide input on product functionality and client deliverables--most notably the multi-million dollar Black Panther Twitter activation and the Twitter Safety Council to combat abuse on the platform. 

In today's episode we will be talking to Trier Bryant about following and leadership. You can find her bio in the description and on our website. Please stay tuned after the guest discussion for skill highlights. www.AmplifyVoices.io About our guest: Trier Bryant is currently Co-Founder and CEO of Just Work LLC. She co-founded this company with Kim Scott, NYT best selling author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Just Work: Get *t Done Fast and Fair, to help organizations and individuals create more equitable workplaces. Trier is a strategic executive with distinctive Tech, Wall Street, and military experience spanning over 15 years. She has been featured as an influential diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practitioner by several publications and outlets from USA Today to CNN and SXSW. Trier has an unwavering commitment to create more equitable, inclusive, and thriving workplaces that produce prosperous companies. The depth of her work ranges from recruiting, talent development, performance management, compensation, communications, and brand strategy. Additionally, Trier advises leading companies like Atlassian, Equinox, Airbnb, SoundCloud, Alto, Rockefeller Foundation, and others on their talent and DEI strategies. Most recently, Trier was the first Chief People Officer (CPO) at Astra, an aerospace company building low orbital rockets to launch a new generation of services to connect and improve life on earth. She was also the VP of People and Workplace Experience at SigFig, a global FinTech company striving to empower everyone to achieve their financial goals with customer centric financial solutions. She led teams in six offices across four countries developing and operationalizing initiatives that optimize employees' impact and experience. Prior to leading full People/HR teams, Trier was the Global Head of Revenue, G&A (Corporate Functions), University, and Diversity Recruiting at Twitter responsible for over 70% of hires. As a member of Twitter's People Leadership Team, Trier led multiple initiatives across various HR disciplines including compensation, L&D, mobility, and inclusion. In addition to her day-to-day Talent Acquisition responsibilities, she partnered across various teams on both Engineering, Product, Design, and Revenue (Sales & Partnerships) to provide input on product functionality and client deliverables--most notably the multi-million dollar Black Panther Twitter activation and the Twitter Safety Council to combat abuse on the platform. 

Why Listen: For those of you who smoke cigars, and you know the phrase knuckle burner - this is a knuckle burner of an episode. I went in trying to keep this to 30 minutes, but we used 58 minutes for this conversation. It's because Trier has so many great points about so many different topics. You'll learn about her career. She's the co-founder and CEO of a company called Just Work. She has a tremendous amount of experience at Goldman Sachs, Twitter, other great organizations around people management, and she has so much great advice about taking care of your people, which is something our audience knows well. But doing that outside of the military blind spots, you may have to talk about empathy in very tactical ways and share stories that I found compelling. She talked about language-specific language to use to create openers within the civilian workforce of getting to know your team and making it an inclusive environment. We talk about entrepreneurship. Despite starting two different organizations, Trier talks about how she doesn't consider herself an entrepreneur, how she's much more interested in scaling something than building it. We talk about how you may not be unique in the military, but you are a unicorn when you get out of the military - the concept of followership again. About Trier: Trier Bryant is the co-Founder and CEO of Just Work, which works with leaders and teams of all sizes across a range of industries creating more effective organizations where respect and collaboration combine to produce just workplaces yielding exceptional results. She started out at the Air Force Academy, served in the Air Force for 7 years, and has held roles at Goldman Sachs, Twitter, SigFig, Astra, and more.

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This episode was produced remotely using the ListenDeck standardized audio production system.   You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. In this episode the host John Siracusa chats remotely with Mike Sha , Co-founder & CEO of  SigFig.   SigFig is a financial services firm that strives to provide  high-quality investment advice to investors of all wealth levels.    Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursdays remote interview with  Alex Bean from Divvy.   About the host:   John, is the host of the  ‘Bank On It’ podcast recorded onsite in Wall Street at OpenFin and Million Dollar Startup, a fully remote, high quality pitch competition podcast..   He's also the founder of the remotely recorded, studio quality standardized audio production system ListenDeck.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium

This episode was produced remotely using the ListenDeck standardized audio production system.   You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. In this episode the host John Siracusa chats remotely with Richie Serna, Co-founder & CEO of  Finix.   Finix is a payment infrastructure platform that gives businesses an alternate way to own, manage, and monetize their entire payments experience without having to build an in-house system from scratch.     Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesdays remote interview with Mike Sha  from SigFig.    About the host:   John, is the host of the  ‘Bank On It’ podcast recorded onsite in Wall Street at OpenFin and Million Dollar Startup, a fully remote, high quality pitch competition podcast..   He's also the founder of the remotely recorded, studio quality standardized audio production system ListenDeck.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium

Manuel Silva is the Head of Investments for Santander InnoVentures, Santander’s Corporate Venture Capital arm and a leading fintech investor. InnoVentures' investment portfolio includes companies like Kabbage, Ripple, SigFig, Tradeshift, Curve, Payjoy, Roostify, Trulioo, Klar and Upgrade. In this conversation, Manuel and I discuss advice for founders in a recession, potential for COVID-driven consolidation in fintech, opportunities in LATAM and thoughts on the digital banking business model.

Matt Harris is a Partner @ Bain Capital Ventures, a leading US venture fund with a portfolio that includes the likes of LinkedIn, Lime, SendGrid, Jet.com and more incredible companies. As for Matt, he specialises in financial technology and services and has led investments in the likes of Acorns, OpenFin, SigFig, Ribbon and Billtrust. Prior to joining BCV, Matt founded Village Ventures, which he ran for 12 years and where he focused on early-stage fintech investing. Before Village Matt actually started his investing career Bain Capital private equity in 1995. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Matt made his way into the world of venture from private equity and what led him to specialise as he has done in the world of fintech? 2.) How did seeing the boom and bust of the dot com impact Matt's investing mindset today? How has Matt's fear of the cyclicality of markets actually lost him a lot of money in the past? What has that taught Matt on trying to time markets? What were the main takeaways for Matt from running his own firm? How does it differ to a partnership? 3.) Why does Matt believe we are seeing late-cycle momentum investing today? What is the evidence to suggest this? How does Matt think about the right cadence to invest through market cycles? What does Matt mean when he says, "Series A valuation does not matter anymore"? Why? How does Matt assess his own price sensitivity today? 4.) Why does Matt believe that investing in improbable ideas is a good strategy? What does this mean the internal investment decision-making process looks like at Bain? Why is full consensus sometimes a concern? How does Matt approach market sizing? Why does it not matter at Series A? When does it really start to matter? 5.) Matt has said before that "backing sociopaths can work". What did he mean by this? What founder type does Matt most like to back? Does one have to manage the relationship with them very differently to other founder types? What are the acceptable risks vs unacceptable risks with this founder type? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Matt’s Fave Book: The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food Matt’s Most Recent Investment: Finix As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Matt on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC.

In our latest podcast, Keane Ehsani (WG ’20) attends the FinTech Innovation Lab 2019 Demo Day in New York, where 11 enterprise tech companies got to showcase innovative products and services. In this podcast, Keane is joined by Maria Gotsch of the Partnership Fund for New York, Hans Morris of Nyca Partners, George Hessler of Magma Trading, and Nir Perry of Cyberwrite. The FinTech Innovation Lab (https://www.fintechinnovationlab.com) was founded in 2010 by Accenture and the Partnership Fund for New York City. The Lab provides early- and growth-stage FinTech companies with access to the world’s leading financial institutions. The Lab was established to help make New York a leader in FinTech and to grow technology jobs by leveraging the concentration of large financial institutions and deep domain expertise that exist in New York. Maria Gotsch, President and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City The Partnership Fund (https://partnershipfundnyc.org) has invested $173mm to preserve New York City’s competitive edge and to mobilize the city’s financial and business leaders to help build a stronger and more diversified local economy. In addition to leading the Fund’s investment operations, Maria has spearheaded the creation and operation of a number of the Fund’s strategic initiatives, including the FinTech Innovation Lab for New York. Hans Morris, Managing Partner of Nyca Partners Nyca (https://www.nyca.com) is a leading venture capital firm focused on connecting innovative companies to the global financial system. In addition to being the Managing Partner of Nyca, Hans also serves as chairman of the board of Lending Club and as a board member of AvidXchange, Boomtown, Payoneer, and SigFig.  Prior to Nyca, Hans held several senior management positions at General Atlantic, Visa, and Citigroup. George Hessler, CEO and Founder of Magma Trading Magma Trading (https://www.magmatrading.com) has created a new kind of stock market that allows broker-dealers to trade large blocks of equities. This structure allows market-making firms to post large potential trades without fear of getting run over by high-speed electronic sweeps. Nir Perry, CEO and Founder of Cyberwrite Cyberwrite (https://cyberwrite.com) enables insurers, brokers, and agents to cyberprofile and benchmark the cyber insurance risk of small-medium businesses worldwide and to estimate the financial impact of potential cyber incidents on their businesses using their unique Cyber Profiling technology. Fintech Innovation Lab Demo Day Press Release: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190627005121/en/11-Enterprise-Tech-Companies-Showcase-Inventive-Products Fintech Innovation Lab Demo Day Archived Video Presentations: https://www.fintechinnovationlab.com/new-york/live/

Matt Harris is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures focused on fintech and financial services. Matt is a fintech legend in New York. Everyone I talked to about this conversation knew Matt and sang his praises effusively.  Matt has been an early stage investor since 1997, which is basically forever in fintech years. His portfolio includes Acorns, IEX, Roofstock, SigFig and many more.  Matt has highly developed views about the future of payments, lending, banking and investing, which we work through in our discussion. In addition to the insights we deliver through our podcast and newsletter, Rebank offers advisory services to fintechs, banks and corporates. Drawing on our experience starting, running and advising fintech businesses and our vast network of the most impactful fintech entrepreneurs, investors and innovators around the world, we help companies make sense of fintech, work through specific questions and optimize proposition and strategy. For more information about our services, please visit www.bankingthefuture.com. Thank you very much for joining us today. Please welcome, Matt Harris.

Parker Conrad is the Founder & CEO @ Rippling, the startup that gives you back your time from payroll to employee computers, Rippling makes it unbelievably easy to manage your company’s HR and IT - in one system. To date Parker has raised over $59m in funding from some of the best in the business including Mamoon @ Kleiner Perkins, Garry Tan @ Initialized, Justin Kan, SV Angel and Y Combinator, just to name a few. As for Parker, prior to founding Rippling, he was the Founder & CEO @ Zenefits, the startup he built from $0 to $60m in ARR in just 3 years. Before that he co-founded Sigfig where he grew assets on the platform to over $35Bn across 500k users. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: How Parker made his way into the world of startups and SaaS, came to found Zenefits and what was that a-ha moment for the founding of his most recent company, Rippling? What does Parker do with regards to operational scaling that is unconventional but works? Why does Parker believe it is fundamentally better to wait for as long as possible before hiring customer support? Why should engineers also be doing customer support?   Why should your engineers be heavily involved in the customer support hiring process? What are the benefits of this? How can one prevent their customer support team from being a wall of protection for the product and eng team? How can you ensure seamless collaboration and communication flow between product and customer support? Stripe last week recently announced their 5th office would be… “remote”, so how does Parker feel about the building of remote teams? What are the most important things when establishing your first remote team? What do you look for in those hires? What can be done to ensure a greater feeling of community and closeness despite the distance? What have been some of the biggest challenges for Parker in building out the remote team? Parker has been a CEO with 3 different companies now and so how has he seen his style and approach change over the years? What has Parker found the hardest to get good at? When advising founders on fundraising, what advice does he give? How can founders know when is the right time to raise? How should they look to build relationships with investors between raises? 60 Second SaaStr: What does Parker know now that he wishes he had known in the beginning? What one thing would Parker like to change about tech and Silicon Valley? Biggest mentor and what has Parker learned from them? Read the full transcript on our blog. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr Parker Conrad

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Hans Morris, partner at Nyca Partners.   Hans is the founding and managing partner of Nyca Partners, a fintech VC in New York and San Francisco founded in 2014, He is the chairman of the board of Lending Club, and a board member of AvidXchange, Boomtown, Payoneer, and SigFig. From 2010 to 2014 he was managing director at General Atlantic, From 2007 until 2010 he served as president of Visa Inc., and from 1980 until 2007, he worked at Citigroup, Before that he was at Salomon Smith Barney.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Andrew Jamison from Extend.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly “Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

The post #ItzOnWealthTech Ep 9: Digital Advice Trends with Randy Bullard appeared first on Wealth Management Today and was written by Craig Iskowitz. "Digital adoption is a one-way street in all markets. People don't install Uber, try it, then delete it and say, 'I'm going to go back to hailing cabs.' That doesn't happen." — Randy Bullard Randy Bullard leads SigFig’s growth and partnership development in the wealth management industry. Prior to joining SigFig, Randy was one of […] The post #ItzOnWealthTech Ep 9: Digital Advice Trends with Randy Bullard appeared first on Wealth Management Today and was written by Craig Iskowitz.

The post #ItzOnWealthTech Ep 9: Digital Advice Trends with Randy Bullard appeared first on and was written by Craig Iskowitz. “Digital adoption is a one-way street in all markets. People don't install Uber, try it, then delete it and say, ‘I'm going to go back to hailing cabs.' That doesn't happen.” — Randy Bullard Randy Bullard leads SigFig's growth and partnership development in the wealth management industry. Prior to joining SigFig, Randy was one of […] The post #ItzOnWealthTech Ep 9: Digital Advice Trends with Randy Bullard appeared first on and was written by Craig Iskowitz.

Hans Morris is a name to know in fintech, and as finance and tech sectors prepare for tougher time next year, he has some incisive thoughts to share about the kinds of companies that will succeed (or not) in a financial downturn. The managing partner of investment firm Nyca Partners, Morris also serves as the chairman of the board of Lending Club and is a director of other start-ups including AvidXchange, Boomtown, Payoneer and SigFig.

Trailblazer, serially successful, Fintech vet and a shaper of the industry's future... those are some takeaways I had from my conversation with Randy Bullard, the General Manager of Wealth Management for SigFig. SigFig is one of the industry's early players in the digital financial advice space, starting out by going to directly to consumers and now providing its elegant tech to financial advisors. Some big names like UBS and Citizens Financial have adopted the SigFig tech. But before SigFig, Randy pioneered the UMA industry. Co-founding Placemark and building the platform over 11 years, before selling to Envestnet. Randy is often asked to speak on the future of the industry and how technology will shape our firm's future. And today we were lucky enough to have that Crystal Ball conversation on our future with the man himself, Randy Bullard.

Laks is the co-founder and former CTO of Zenefits. Since the company's founding in 2013, Laks has led and helped expand Zenefits' business, which serves tens of thousands of companies. Prior to Zenefits, Laks served as a software engineer at SigFig and as a project leader at D. E. Shaw & Co.

Panelists include: Mike Sha, SigFig; Rich Cancro, AdvisorEngine; Aaron Klein, Riskalayze; Moderator: Ryan Neal, Wealth Management. There are many fintech firms who are partnering with wealth managers in different ways; SigFig has built a digital wealth platform to bring a modern approach to the wealth management business and has partnered with some large firms; Riskalayze believes investors tend to sabotage their investments by investing at inopportune times; company has built a Risk Number to quantify and help advisors determine how much their clients can handle while reaching goals; also has built a robo component to the product; AdvisorEngine’s goals are to help advisors transform their growth and connect advisors to their clients, transforming the experience by digitization; panelists share why they chose to pursue the path as a technology provider, their history in wealth management and why it makes sense to partner with wealth management firms.

On today’s broadcast, Wells Fargo announces a partnership with SigFig, Cetera’s computers systems suffer a two-day outage, lessons from a hack at Lincoln Financial, and more. So get ready, FPPad Bits and Bytes begins now! (WatchFPPad Bits and Bytes on YouTube) Today’s episode is brought to you by eMoney Advisor, the leading provider of digital […]

Evan Meagher of SigFig came by to share the lessons he has learned helping SigFig scale. Evan is Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Operations so he's seen it all. SigFig has revolutionized smart personal investing by offering algorithmic index investing. Sometimes SigFig is called a "Robo Advisor" because the machines and algorithms do all the work, leaving higher returns and lower fees for consumers.

On today’s broadcast, Personal Capital raises a new round of $75 million, SigFig raises its own round of $40 million, FINRA fines a rep for changing his CRM notes, and more! So get ready, FPPad Bits and Bytes begins now! (Watch FPPad Bits and Bytes on YouTube) Today’s episode is brought to you by RightCapital; […]