Posts tagged Kik
Is Finance asking *interesting* questions? Exploring startups, industries, and the nature of work.
Is Finance asking *interesting* questions? Exploring startups, industries, and the nature of work.

This week, we look at:

  • What it means to ask questions and find answers

  • From asking simple questions that result in neobanks and roboadvisors. Who will win — Schwab or Robinhood?

  • To asking macro questions about the finance / high-tech competition. Who will win — Goldman Sachs or Google?

  • To asking profound questions about the nature of the work, and the art of finding your own questions.

We can't formulate the questions for you. But we can give you a framework of needs for both the individual, and the organization.

The questions that you ask are the answers that you will get.

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roboadvisor, central bank / CBDC, venture capital, artificial intelligence, regulation & complianceLex SokolinNVIDIA, Tencent, Kik, SEC, BitMEX, Careem
The political limits of commerce -- Telegram's $1.7B US offering and NBA's $1.5B China deal
The political limits of commerce -- Telegram's $1.7B US offering and NBA's $1.5B China deal

I look at the boundaries that Telegram and EOS have crashed into in the US with recent SEC actions and lawsuits, and the melting of Facebook Libra. There have been a number of interesting regulatory moves recently, and the positive headlines of 2017 have become the negative headlines of 2019. How does SEC jurisdiction reach foreign institutional investors? We also touch on the $1.5 billion NBA distribution deal now on the fence in China, and how US companies are under the speech jurisdiction of a foreign nation. How does China reach American protected speech? Through pressure, boycott, and economics.

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civilization and politics, philosophy, China, ICO / IEO, cryptoLex SokolinKik, China Construction Bank, SEC, ICO Box, EOS, Telegram, Libra / Diem, Tencent, Blizzard