William Hockey

"Maybe I'll use a company out here that recently relaunched company called Built, which is made a lot of New Yorkers have, a lot of people in the cities have."

"So with a back-end infrastructure that powers the payments, deposits, credit of amazing companies like Built, Wise, Ramp, Brex, Mercury."

"So with a back-end infrastructure that powers the payments, deposits, credit of amazing companies like Built, Wise, Ramp, Brex, Mercury."

"So with a back-end infrastructure that powers the payments, deposits, credit of amazing companies like Built, Wise, Ramp, Brex, Mercury."

"So with a back-end infrastructure that powers the payments, deposits, credit of amazing companies like Built, Wise, Ramp, Brex, Mercury."

"Probably a lot of your listeners read Dan Wang's last letter on China and he has this great and I think accurate but somewhat harsh criticism."

"One of the most interesting companies out there is Caspi in Kazakhstan. They started out by buying a bank and then they just kind of built did everything."

"The largest bank in Congo is bank called Raw Bank. Highly sophisticated. You download the mobile app. It's way better than we have here in the US."

"And we've created this incredible environment in Silicon Valley that it's really safe to start a company and there's like a playbook and you go through YC."

"The top talent's going to they're going to Anthropic they're going to Google etc."

"They don't have the ability to move to London and go to DeepMind, but there's still like a pretty decent talent pool there."

"We attempted to sell to Visa for like $5 billion and that's kind of the point I left to go start something. It didn't go through. We got blocked by the DOJ."

"That you cannot like Gemini deep research your way through, that's where value is, but it's fucking boring for a lot of people."