What if we kissed in the Saddam Hussein shower

breathtaking aurora over roku city

Fairfax 🪩

My goodness! The aurora over the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps! #aurora #NorthernLights

Waymos should have walkie talkies so you can chat with the person in the one right in front of you

Everybody stay calm, the Hayes Trader Joe’s signage went up

ICYMI, my Latest Fintech Takes newsletter came out last night. I cover:

1.) The Forbes deep dive on Chime. What to make of their numbers and their foray into unsecured lending.

2.) Target and Walmart object to the merchant settlement with V/MC. They have a point, but ohh the…

Toto Wolff on his way to get back the engine they gave to Mclaren

Are you wearing…the Scuderia Ferrari Azzurro Meta wayfarers?

Yes, I am.

P2/P3 let’s go boys

Yes that's how you do transaction monitoring 🙃

We rolled our own credits wallet at Caviar. It worked, but had massive unrealized potential for retention and driving frequency (not to mention missing capabilities to help compliance and audit). Ansa fixes all this and more. Congratulations sophia goldberg and Team Ansa…

Congratulations to sophia goldberg, JT and the rest of the team at Ansa on raising their Series A to continue to disrupt closed loop payments. Great to see that Christina Melas-Kyriazi and other women investors contributed >95% to the round.

Read more from Mary Ann Azevedo in…

Sent a cold DM to sophia goldberg in Nov 2021. Before she had a cofounder or landed on the vision for the company or the name. One of my favorite parts of true early stage investing is watching a tiny idea evolve into something meaningful. No hype yet, no BS.

Loyalty and payments…

a very reformed end-of-Passover Seder feat. the ny time’s gochujang butter noodles reimagined as kugel