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In this conversation, we chat with Adam Nash, the co-founder & CEO of Daffy – a new fintech platform focused on charitable giving. Adam has served as an executive, angel investor, and advisor to some of the most successful technology companies to come out of Silicon Valley. He is currently on the Board of Directors for Acorns, the country’s fastest-growing financial wellness system, and Shift Technologies (Ticker: SFT).
Adam has previously served as President & CEO of Wealthfront. He has held executive and technical roles at Dropbox, LinkedIn, eBay, and Apple. Adam also serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University, where he teaches “Personal Finance for Engineers.” As an angel investor, Nash is well known for being an early investor in Firebase (sold to Google), Opendoor (Ticker: OPEN), Figma, Gusto, and over 90 other startups. Adam holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, as well as an MBA from Harvard.
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1’30”: The formative experience behind Adam’s career & starting at Apple in its heyday
9’59”: The building experience during the internet boom that lead to roles at eBay and other leading Web2.0 companies
13’22”: The evolution of consumer sentiment towards E-commerce at eBay
18’43”: Embedding software in Web1.0 to initiate the possibility for engagement & what this meant for product at LinkedIn
25’21”: The Web2.0 approach to building software & the initial hypotheses around extending the Silicon Valley method to financial services
32’36”: Daffy – the idea, what drove its inception, and what the future looks like
37’40”: The art of giving via a Fintech app – the methodology of how to make generosity a major driver of Daffy’s user journey
41’37”: Channels to use to connect with Adam and/or to learn more about Daffy
Sneak Peek:
Adam Nash: I've been thinking a lot about the transition from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 lately, particularly because I see some of the same transitions potentially happening in fintech, which gets to my current company, Daffy. But going back to Web 2.0 and what was going on at LinkedIn, basically Web 1.0 had happened and in many ways had been phenomenally successful despite the dotcom bust. I mean, eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, if we want to throw Google in there, were doing really well and making real money and had grown into really phenomenal businesses.
But there had been a couple problems along the way with Web 1.0 that had really challenged the economics of the industry. One was it turned out that content was particularly hard to scale. You could certainly get a few articles written up and write content, but the idea of hiring hundreds and hundreds, or thousands of writers started looking cost prohibitive to the businesses that were being discussed.
And then the second problem was user acquisition in terms of…
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Finance is being pulled apart by the forces of frontier technology. From AI, to blockchain, crypto and DeFi, to mixed reality, chatbots, neobanks, and roboadvisors — the industry will never be the same. Here is the blueprint for navigating the shift.
Finance is being pulled apart by the forces of frontier technology. From AI, to blockchain, crypto and DeFi, to mixed reality, chatbots, neobanks, and roboadvisors — the industry will never be the same. Here is the blueprint for navigating the shift.
