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Why haven’t we arrived at the AWS Era for Fintech?

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Re: Why haven’t we arrived at the AWS Era for Fintech?

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Thanks for sharing my article here!

Over and over in conversations with other startup founders and VCs, we kept hearing the analogy of AWS for Fintech. I think it's a really interesting thought experiment, but I haven't seen a breakdown from a technology perspective. What's in place, and what's missing? So I did a write up using Cloud Computing as the framework.

Would love your input!

Re: Why haven’t we arrived at the AWS Era for Fintech?

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post #2

Thanks for sharing my article here! Over and over in conversations with other startup founders and VCs, we kept hearing the analogy of AWS for Fintech. I think it's a really interesting thought experiment, but I haven't seen a breakdown from a technology perspective. What's in place, and what's missing? So I did a write up using Cloud Computing as the framework. Would love your input!

Why should there be a moment? Seems to me money has been around for a while and will be slow to change. Cloud computing was a new concept

Technology is more of an enabler than a driver. Finance is a highly regulated industry, you don't want any Joe Shmoe building applications which handle money, because security.