Alex Rampell

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Silicon Valley entrepreneur (TrialPay, Yub, Affirm, Point, TXN, etc), investor (General Partner @a16z), husband, father, and sarcast (one who is sarcastic)

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Tweet Sep 8, 2021

Tweet by Alex Rampell: 1/ Why is “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) an early threat to trillions of dollars of market cap - Visa (almost $500B), MasterCard ($350B), card issuing banks, acquiring banks/services (Fiserv, FIS, Global Payments, etc)?

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1/ Why is “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) an early threat to trillions of dollars of market cap - Visa (almost $500B), MasterCard ($350B), card issuing banks, acquiring banks/services (Fiserv, FIS, Global Payments, etc)?

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Tweet Jan 12

Thread by Alex Rampell: 1/ The Future of Payments…is Red? What could disrupt Visa/MasterCard/Amex? How might a new payments Goliath start? Let’s talk about the Target Red Card. Target did >$100B in revenue last year, 20% of which happened on its own cards: twitter.com/ar

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1/ The Future of Payments…is Red?

What could disrupt Visa/MasterCard/Amex? How might a new payments Goliath start?

Let’s talk about the Target Red Card. Target did >$100B in revenue last year, 20% of which happened on its own cards:

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Tweet Jan 4

Thread by Alex Rampell: 1/ Thread: How to sell your company Companies are (almost always) bought, not sold. This means somebody needs to want to buy your company. Ideally this happens organically. But how do you, as a founder/CEO, expedite this…particularly when you KN

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1/ Thread: How to sell your company

Companies are (almost always) bought, not sold. This means somebody needs to *want to buy* your company.

Ideally this happens organically. But how do you, as a founder/CEO, expedite this…particularly when you KNOW you’re hitting a wall?

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Tweet Aug 24, 2022

Thread by Alex Rampell: 1/ How a company I co-founded (TrialPay) once exited the Catch 22 of “can’t raise cash without growth; can’t grow without raising cash” which is potentially the most “unsolvable” (Kobayashi Maru) situation a VC-backed company can face

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1/ How a company I co-founded (TrialPay) once exited the Catch 22 of “can’t raise cash without growth; can’t grow without raising cash” which is potentially the most “unsolvable” (Kobayashi Maru) situation a VC-backed company can face

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Tweet Nov 3, 2021

Thread by Alex Rampell: 1/ Many areas of financial services have “stochastic margins” per widget, but hopefully (obviously!) positive margins for the whole batch of widgets sold - unlike most manufacturers, with fixed/declining COGS at scale. This means many things when you

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1/ Many areas of financial services have “stochastic margins” per widget, but hopefully (obviously!) positive margins for the whole batch of widgets sold - unlike most manufacturers, with fixed/declining COGS at scale. This means many things when you build a “financial” business

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Podcast episode Oct 26, 2021