Building Company Playbook #4: Building Fintech & DeFi software products

A continuation of our series on building Fintech & DeFi companies

Gm Fintech Architects —

Today we are diving into the following topics:

• Summary: We continue our Building Company Playbook series with an entry on software product development. First, we define what products are, how to think about them from a financial services perspective and a fintech perspective, and how to create MVPs based on user research. Next, we look at the most popular product development methodologies of Agile and Waterfall, and match them to appropriate use cases. We also explore the development of Web3 protocols and artificial intelligence, and how those differ relative to building conventional software. Last, we discuss the trade-offs between internal and external development teams, and how to navigate this successfully.

We welcome discussion and your feedback on these topics — leave a note for us in the comments.