Alex Rampell

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Silicon Valley entrepreneur (TrialPay, Yub, Affirm, Point, TXN, etc), investor (General Partner @a16z), husband, father, and sarcast (one who is sarcastic)

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Tweet Sep 8, 2021

1/ Why is “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) an early threat to trillions of dollars of market cap - Visa (almost $500B), MasterCard ($350B), card issuing banks, acquiring banks/services (Fiserv, FIS, Global Payments, etc)?

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Tweet Jan 12, 2023

1/ The Future of Payments…is Red? What could disrupt Visa/MasterCard/Amex? How might a new payments Goliath start? Let’s talk about the Target Red Card. Target did >$100B in revenue last year, 20% of which happened on its own cards: twitter.com/ar

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Tweet Jan 4, 2023

1/ Thread: How to sell your company Companies are (almost always) bought, not sold. This means somebody needs to *want to buy* your company. Ideally this happens organically. But how do you, as a founder/CEO, expedite this…particularly when you KN

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Tweet Aug 24, 2022

1/ How a company I co-founded (TrialPay) once exited the Catch 22 of “can’t raise cash without growth; can’t grow without raising cash” which is potentially the most “unsolvable” (Kobayashi Maru) situation a VC-backed company can face

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Tweet Nov 3, 2021

1/ Many areas of financial services have “stochastic margins” per widget, but hopefully (obviously!) positive margins for the whole batch of widgets sold - unlike most manufacturers, with fixed/declining COGS at scale. This means many things when you

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Podcast episode Oct 26, 2021

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy: Alex Rampell - Investing in Operating Systems (1h17m)

by Alex Rampell and Patrick OShaughnessy

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Article Sep 24, 2021

As More Workers Go Solo, the Software Stack Is the New Firm - Future

by Seema Amble and 2 others

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Podcast episode May 26, 2016

a16z Podcast: Managing Uncertainty - Layoffs and Talent - Andreessen Horowitz

by Alex Rampell and Shannon Schiltz

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Podcast episode Nov 13, 2017

20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous

by Harry Stebbings and Alex Rampell

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