Lots of software talks about money, keeps records about money, does calculations about money, but can't *touch* money.
One of the big promises of software is composability. You can build rich, powerful experiences out of basic building blocks.
APIs add new things to the toolbox. For example: Treasury, which lets an app/platform store, move, and track a business’
Lots of software talks about money, keeps records about money, does calculations about money, but can't *touch* money.
So you generally push work to the operator.
You need to be able to read bank transactions to reconcile. You probably can't. The owner can. So you ask the owner to do mind-numbing work a computer does better.
There is some software to write but it is not rocket science.
But let me speculate a bit:
They can automate its operations.
https://t.co/fMOqHh2Tlv
We made it *better* for your users than many business bank accounts.
"When do I get my money?"
Can you imagine needing to email Google to ask when that email that you know was sent will arrive?
Why is money *so slow* and *so opaque*?
In the U.S., you’ll often be blocked on the ACH network. Fast compared to stagecoach; slow compared to email.
Stripe has an arrangement with the banks that ultimately hold the business users’ funds.
(We are working on making that even faster by default. It’s not called HTTP 200 Check Back In An Hour.)
Putting together fintech products is historically a pain in the keister.
Then your engineering team receives the spec, and the *real* fun begins.
No negotiation required. No bespoke legal work. More of the necessary levels of complexity in touching money businesses depend on; less of the overhead.
You can build all of that on Stripe APIs now.
AAAAAAAARGH.
It is managed at most banks as an offshoot of personal banking, because the userbase is basically the same people who show up at the branch.
But the needs are quite different.
(Narrator: This is not, in fact, an adequate spec for a checking account.)
So do graveyards. And hotels. And landlords. And spas. And tutors. And yoga teachers. And...
Not enough dentists pay not enough dollars for banks to put software teams against dental practice UX.
We can then take that package to leading banks. That reach is *very interesting* to them.
A pizzeria can't walk into Goldman Sachs and walk out with a bank account.
A software company serving pizzerias could if they had, uh, a lot of dough.
And so our partner banks have made great products available, at pricing and terms that small businesses just don't usually get in direct banking relationships.
I know exactly how many times I paid the $14 account maintenance fee for my software businesses, ten years later. That’s how much I hated them.
One way to think of it is that banks have huge expenses to attract SMB deposits, including marketing campaigns and branch networks, and those drive the pricing of SMB banking.
Nationwide advertising, branches, and sales reps aren’t as cheap as cron jobs.
I'm very excited to see what software people do with the Stripe Treasury.
No. This was my number two. You're welcome to your guess at the number one. (Though, who knows, I heard of a new project last week and might steal the zeroth spot for it.)
https://t.co/osjjx8gNM0
Part of the needle threading is making sure that one is still developing some things which are uniquely exciting to developers and smaller shops.
— Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) September 23, 2020
Which: I can\u2019t spoil it, but one thing in the pipeline is maybe my favorite Stripe product since Stripe Atlas if we do it right.
More from Patrick McKenzie
More from Software
the year kicked off with shmuplations' first big video project: a subtitled translation of a 2016 NHK documentary on the 30th anniversary of Dragon Quest which features interviews with Yuji Horii, Koichi Nakamura, Akira Toriyama, and Koichi Sugiyama https://t.co/JCWA15RTlx
following DQ30 was one of the most popular articles of the year: an assortment of interviews with composers Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima concerning the music of Streets of Rage 1, 2 & 3 https://t.co/QUtyC9W12Z their comments on SoR3 in particular were full of gems
Game Designers: The Next Generation profiled six potential successors to the likes of Shigeru Miyamoto & Hironobu Sakaguchi, some of who you may recognise: Kazuma Kaneko, Takeshi Miyaji (1966-2011), Noboru Harada, Kan Naitou, Takashi Tokita & Ryoji Amano https://t.co/lWZU3PLvwX
from the 2010 Akumajou Dracula Best Music Collections Box, a subbed video feature on long-time Castlevania composer Michiru Yamane https://t.co/NMJe4ROozR sadly, Chiruru has since passed; Yamane wrote these albums in his honor
https://t.co/orlgPTDsKK
https://t.co/QnQl8KI9IX
You May Also Like
Decoded his way of analysis/logics for everyone to easily understand.
Have covered:
1. Analysis of volatility, how to foresee/signs.
2. Workbook
3. When to sell options
4. Diff category of days
5. How movement of option prices tell us what will happen
1. Keeps following volatility super closely.
Makes 7-8 different strategies to give him a sense of what's going on.
Whichever gives highest profit he trades in.
I am quite different from your style. I follow the market's volatility very closely. I have mock positions in 7-8 different strategies which allows me to stay connected. Whichever gives best profit is usually the one i trade in.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) August 13, 2019
2. Theta falls when market moves.
Falls where market is headed towards not on our original position.
Anilji most of the time these days Theta only falls when market moves. So the Theta actually falls where market has moved to, not where our position was in the first place. By shifting we can come close to capturing the Theta fall but not always.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) June 24, 2019
3. If you're an options seller then sell only when volatility is dropping, there is a high probability of you making the right trade and getting profit as a result
He believes in a market operator, if market mover sells volatility Sarang Sir joins him.
This week has been great so far. The main aim is to be in the right side of the volatility, rest the market will reward.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) July 3, 2019
4. Theta decay vs Fall in vega
Sell when Vega is falling rather than for theta decay. You won't be trapped and higher probability of making profit.
There is a difference between theta decay & fall in vega. Decay is certain but there is no guaranteed profit as delta moves can increase cost. Fall in vega on the other hand is backed by a powerful force that sells options and gives handsome returns. Our job is to identify them.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) February 12, 2020