Energized by what social media can be. Disappointed in how it’s turning out. Let’s change it!
A few interests: #fintech, #AI, #contentmarketing, #payments, #digitaltransformation
5 trends that will shape fintech in 2025:
1️⃣ Fintech exits, frozen for the last 24 months, come roaring back. Expect IPO, M&A, or shutdown.
2️⃣ AI driving innovation in banking
3️⃣ Legal disputes!
4️⃣ Choosing fintech partners on the basis of their long-term viability.
5️⃣ Regional shifts in global fintech dominance
Game on! Despite U.S. chip export restrictions, Chinese companies have made huge strides in AI.
U.S. startups may face heightened competition from companies entering global markets with AI solutions that are lower cost & rivaling U.S. capabilities.
Without a doubt, 2024 was the Year of AI.
But…
From chatbots giving flat out wrong advice, to tasty ideas like glue for pizza, this year proved AI (currently) has limits.
Here are the year’s biggest AI fails:
https://dub.sh/x05NEoE
Slightly over half of adults read a book last year. Time to put down your phone?
https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/turn-on-the-subtitles-henry-warren-interview/
With U.S. home prices up ~40% from before the pandemic,
Young homebuyers are 2x as likely to use family money for down payment than 5 years ago
Young Americans who have the means are turning to family for help with down payments as housing costs soar. Working a second job is also a popular way to save for a down payment, with 2 in 5 millennials and Gen Zers doing so.
TL;DR "Apple has managed to pack the power of a Mac, plus the performance of a new dedicated AR chip, into a computer that you can wear on your face."
Want to earn your full-geek merit badge?
Check out the Vision Pro teardown 😎
"it isn’t just displaying a single video feed of your eyes; it’s showing a bunch of videos of your eyes."
Vision Pro Teardown—Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird https://bit.ly/3Sp3LiF
#tech #fintech
“There are echos of subprime here as no one really knows the size of the problem, who is holding the losses and how it could be managed.”
Dark days are coming for US commercial real estate and the banks holding the loans https://bit.ly/3UnKNM9
