Podcast: Jake on Early Days, Ep.7
Jake Gibson, co-founder of NerdWallet, shares the story of how messing around with a friend to fix a problem getting a credit card scaled into a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ.
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Podcast: Sheel on The Deal, Ep.3
Sheel Mohnot is the Founder and General Partner at BTV. BTV is a multi-stage, fintech-focused fund that believes in a future where every company has a compelling fintech component.
Podcast: Sheel on 20VC - Lessons from Investing, GP Dynamics, Emerging Market Fintech
Fintech OG, Sheel Mohnot, on Lessons from Investing in Flexport and Chippercash and Missing Robinhood and Chime, Why Overly Large GP Commits are Dangerous, Biggest Mistakes Managers Make with Fund I and Emerging Markets; Which Survive?
Podcast: Sheel on The Altogether Show, Ep.32
⬅️Originally published by The Altogether Show with Eric Satz on YouTube here.
Sheel on Seed-Stage Investing
Sheel Mohnot discusses the risks and rewards of seed-stage investing, resilient founders, and his entrepreneurial path that has led him around the globe.
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Thoughts on the Market, from 1Q22
🔃In our quarterly LP updates, we try to put together some insightful thoughts on the market, our firm, or the general fintech world. This was our 1Q22 update, which went out right after the market puked because of inflation, interest rate hikes, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It
TechCrunch: Better Tomorrow Ventures closes on $225M fintech-focused fund, which is triple the size of its last fund
BTV is a venture firm that boasts two successful fintech founders as its partners. That experience, in the pair’s view, gives them an edge in a very competitive investment environment.
Business Insider: Meet NerdWallet's other co-founder, who left the company in 2014 to focus on being a dad. He's now an investor and has his own VC firm.
Gibson co-founded NerdWallet with Tim Chen in 2009 and was the company's COO until he left in 2014.