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To disrupt banking, do you need to own the bank?
- mschuster91 13y agoWe Germans see the beginning with banks like Fidor Bank AG (http://fidor.de http://fidor.de). It's still far from perfect though.
- tonyklausing 13y agoI think a big question to re-imagine finance is this: how do we design the bank to give the consumer more control over how their deposits are used?
- malandrew 13y agoAn LBO of a retail bank by Andreessen Horowitz would be most awesome. Once they own a bank they could make every finance startups they invest in the primary customers of that bank and EOL the retail side of the bank, pushing existing customers to the services offered by the companies they've invested in instead. To ensure cooperation between all the startups in the portfolio, this could be arranged as a keiretsu, in which in a later round of funding each startup would be given a percentage ownership of the bank that is earned out like equity. Make it a 1 year cliff with 4 years vesting.