This is fintech's 'Noah's Ark Year'

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

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Mary Ann is taking over while Natasha attends a summit in LA, and this week, she interviewed Mark Goldberg, partner and fintech lead at Index Ventures. Since 2015, Mark has spent his time investing in - and sitting on the boards of - financial services companies including Plaid, Persona, Lithic, Cocoon, and Pilot.The duo talked about: The party that was 2021 and the hangover that was 2022 Mark's Twitter prediction that raised some eyebrows on Twitter Why 2023 will be a survival of the fittest Alex, Mary Ann, and Becca are back Friday with more Equity, but as always, you can keep up with us in the meantime on Twitter @EquityPod. For episode transcripts and more, head to Equity's Simplecast website. Equity drops at 7:00 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotifyand all the casts. TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto, a show that interviews founders, one that details how our stories come together and more! Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of
0:14.4	startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. I'm
0:18.2	Mary Ann Azavado. This is our Wednesday show where we niche down to a
0:21.6	single person, think about their work and unpack the rest.
0:25.0	Today we're talking to Mark Goldberg, partner at Index Ventures since 2015.
0:30.0	He's invested and sits on the boards of a number of financial services companies such as
0:34.9	Plaid, persona, Lithic, Cocoon, and Pilot.
0:38.3	Mark, welcome to the show.
0:39.9	We're thrilled to have you here today.
0:41.9	It's great to be here. Thank you so much for inviting me.
0:43.7	Yeah, no, this is going to be fun. We're going to talk about a few things including the party
0:48.7	that was 2021, the hangover that was 2022, and then we'd love to get your thoughts and what's ahead
0:55.2	for 2023 including going over some predictions you have one in particular
1:00.7	regarding Twitter that I know caused a bit of a stir on Twitter.
1:04.7	Very meta.
1:05.7	But yeah, that's just one of several.
1:09.5	So currently you're the FinTech Lita Index Ventures is that right? That's right. Yeah I've been at
1:13.4	in 2015 and focused on FinTech which has been a really interesting time to be
1:19.1	investing in this category. We've seen a lot of waves and yeah it's an exciting time to be doing FinTech.
1:24.0	A lot has happened since 2015. I mean you've really seen the industry just
1:29.9	evolve in a major way right? I mean did you expect it to accelerate like this?
1:34.5	I did not expect it to be moving this quickly
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