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The Final Edition

thebarefootvc

I had alluded to this in a piece I wrote in 2015 – Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?: “Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

My Story: The public coming out for my first company, BuildOnline, was in early 2000. Everybody thought the real substance was going to come from B2B eCommerce players that would deliver “real value&# by disintermediating supply chains … blah, blah, blah. There was talk of an IPO in 12 months. We were hot.