“I don't think it's necessary to just get all the data all up front, no matter what. It's important to know exactly what questions that data's going to help answer.” – Mike Sall
Mike Sall (@sall) is Co-Founder of Goldfinch, a decentralized credit platform for crypto loans without collateral. Mike previously co-founded Unbox Research, was Head of Data Science at Medium, and served as Product Manager at Adobe.
To listen to Mike's quick interview on habits, routines, and inspirations, click here.
For more, explore the transcript of this episode.
Chapters
- How Goldfinch is helping entrepreneurs
- Mike's background and interest in data science
- Mike's experience at Coinbase
- The origins of Goldfinch
- Why raising capital in emerging markets is so difficult
- Assessing comfort levels with borrowing in crypto
- Mike's previous businesses and learnings
- The Goldfinch Flight Academy
- On crypto regulations and compliance
Links
- Connect with Mike Sall: LinkedIn | Twitter | Goldfinch
- Google Analytics
- Medium
- Buzzfeed
- Evan Williams
- Coinbase
- Compound
- Blake West
- Kiva
- Bitcoin
- Ethereum
- Binance
- Kraken
- Almavest
- OYA
- Telegram
- Notion
- MetaMask
- Goldfinch Whitepaper
- a16z (Andreessen Horowitz)
- Goldfinch Flight Academy
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