Posts tagged Elon Musk
From ecommerce to a million+ global financial community, with Maximilian Rofagha of Finimize
From ecommerce to a million+ global financial community, with Maximilian Rofagha of Finimize

In this conversation, we talk with Maximilian Rofagha, who serves as the CEO and Founder of Finimize, about how to do personal finance right and how to do it bottoms up for the world.

Additionally, we explore Max’s journey to becoming an entrepreneur, the nuances of the e-commerce business, the building of and drivers behind community and creating business activities around it, the influences of FinTok and crypto assets on financial community, and the drivers of value back into said communities fulfilling the feedback loop.

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social & community, generational change, digital investing, eCommerceLex SokolinFinimize, TikTok, Elon Musk, DeinDeal, Groupon
Lessons from Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Galaxy Digital, and the emerging DAOs for building a Fintech empire
Lessons from Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Galaxy Digital, and the emerging DAOs for building a Fintech empire

This week, we cover these ideas:

  • The difference between building a Fintech company, and building an empire to transform the world

  • How Warren Buffett is the best in the world at getting leverage through third party capital to grow

  • How Elon Musk is the best in the world at re-investing capital into his own judgment and view of the future

  • The $1.2B BitGo acquisition by Galaxy Digital, and the growing footprint of Alameda Research

  • DAOs as a way for all of us to participate

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DAOs, venture capital, monetization / commercial, philosophy, entrepreneurshipLex SokolinWarren Buffett, Elon Musk, Galaxy Digital, BitGo, Alameda Research, FTX, Blockfolio, Solana, ConsenSys
OpenAI, backed with $1B+ by Elon Musk & MSFT, can now program SQL and write Harry Potter fan-fiction
OpenAI, backed with $1B+ by Elon Musk & MSFT, can now program SQL and write Harry Potter fan-fiction

This week, we look at a breakthrough artificial intelligence release from OpenAI, called GPT-3. It is powered by a machine learning algorithm called a Transformer Model, and has been trained on 8 years of web-crawled text data across 175 billion parameters. GPT-3 likes to do arithmetic, solve SAT analogy questions, write Harry Potter fan fiction, and code CSS and SQL queries. We anchor the analysis of these development in the changing $8 trillion landscape of our public companies, and the tech cold war with China.

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big tech, artificial intelligence, civilization and politics, China, metaverse, visual artLex SokolinAmazon, Microsoft, Apple, China, GPT-3, OpenAI, Elon Musk
What can Fintech learn from Elon Musk and SpaceX getting astronauts to space for 90% cheaper than NASA?
What can Fintech learn from Elon Musk and SpaceX getting astronauts to space for 90% cheaper than NASA?

This week I discuss SpaceX, and its Dragon rocket carrying American astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time in 9 years. The 20 year old company is a testament to the incredible iron will and absolute insanity of the most visionary capitalist alive -- Elon Musk. We walk through various attributes of the company and recent launch to derive lessons for the financial industry and the entrepreneurs rebuilding it.

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entrepreneurship, civilization and politics, digital transformation, philosophyLex SokolinElon Musk, SpaceX, Tesla, Tink, Revolut