Shival Gupta

November 19, 2019. This is part two of a two-part essay diving into the future of fintech. Read part one. In part one of this essay, I discussed how fintech was moving from being a business model unto itself, to being an ingredient used in...
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April 11, 2018. What was it like in 1993/4 when the web was new? Turns out the reaction at the time from luminaries was not far from today’s reaction to innovation in Fintech. A story… This is a twitter thread from April 10,...
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June 06, 2016. Our team has been actively investing in fintech for the past two years. In addition to reading pitches from hundreds of companies and meeting with dozens, half of our team has worked in the finance sector in previous careers. SparkLabs Global has...
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December 19, 2019. Lessons from the fall and possible rise of a pioneering "stablecoin." The decor inside the offices on Facebook’s campus in Menlo Park, Calif., can best be described as “unfinished.” Steel girders crisscross overhead. Piping and air ducts pop out of plywood...
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September 27, 2017. Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts are from the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, the world’s first social science research centre into the economics, politics, sociology, and law of blockchain technology. The blockchain is a digital, decentralised, distributed ledger. Most explanations...
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October 27, 2017.  I’ve been thinking a lot about America and how we can improve our country while things socially and politically continue to trudge forward in a state of apparent dysfunction. I tweeted this last week, and that got me thinking, so here...
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January 19, 2018. Valuation methodologies have historically lagged behind the development of the assets they represent. While the Dutch East India Company became the first entity to sell stocks on a public exchange in the early 1600s, it was not until the 20th century that...
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