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Matt Brown's Notes

Matt Brown

Notes on fintech, vertical software, and VC.

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Latest Issues

Card issuing in 1,000 words

This is an installment of the “Fintech in 1,000 words” series, where we break down core fintech topics, like cross-border payments, interchange, payfacs, stablecoins, and real time payments. These introduce critical but mis- or under-unders...

a month ago

Vertex 2026: notes from the vSaaS world

400 vertical software and fintech founders, operators, and investors met in New York last week for Rainforest’s Vertex conference. Everyone from public-company fintech GMs to growth-stage operators to early-stage founders. Companies buildin...

2 months ago

The 150-Pound Computer

For decades, this was the operating assumption. Humans were the cheapest general-purpose computers available. Hire them, give them tools, let them process information and make decisions.

In the 1970s, an Air Force Colonel named John Boyd f...

2 months ago

Fintech's moats don't compile

“Fintech” has long traded on the ambiguity in its name.

The “fin” implied lots of emails from .gov domains, months-long audits, compliance officers who know your SAR filing history better than your product roadtmap, and mid-week flights to...

3 months ago
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Vertical software already won the context graph

Context graphs have become the new battleground in enterprise software. @JayaGup10 and @ashugarg argued that the next trillion-dollar platform opportunity isn’t in systems of record. It’s in capturing the decision traces that systems of rec...

5 months ago

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