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Drop #5 Fintech ate banking. Now its alumni are eating fintech

The most valuable thing Stripe, Revolut and PayPal produced wasn’t a product. It was a generation of founders who know exactly what broken looks like.

The SpaceX IPO, European Sovereignty, and the Trillion-Dollar Question for Private Markets

What 100 weeks of explaining private markets has taught us

a16z is right about scale. Here's what they left out.

Scaling venture capital is one thing. Scaling private markets is another.

The Role of Syndicates in Modern Startup Investing

Europe’s Tech Story Is More Nuanced Than the Headlines

Private Markets Go Retail Only If the Infrastructure Does

Drop 4: Where We Are Now

Europe’s 28th Regime: A Single Startup Framework for a Fragmented Market

What Europe is really trying to fix: A Market built for 27, not one

Why Tokenisation doesn’t replace regulation - It depends on it

Tokenisation only works when it sits inside that regulatory structure, not outside it.

Europe’s real startup problem: Not innovation, but IPO outcomes

The Hidden Gap in Europe’s Tech Ecosystem: Exits, Not Ideas

The Anatomy of a round (and why they never go to plan)