Europe’s AI Edge May Be in Stockholm
The most recent stop in our QED tour of European fintech ecosystems was Sweden, where we used the occasion of Stockholm Fintech Week to meet some of the best founders in Europe. We are by no means strangers to Sweden: Apart from having been born there myself, Nigel Morris also served on the board of…
GDP Is Dead: How AI Forces a Rethink of Growth, Politics, and Power
Remember Simon Kuznets. Mid-20th century economist, immigrant, and empiricist. He believed that economic output could be measured in a standardized form using mathematics and statistics and he gave the world the tool to do it: national income accounting and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Born 1901 in what is today Ukraine, Kuznets emigrated to the United…
How AI will Transform Fintech: Cross-border SMB Commerce Rails
Today the cross-border logistics plus payments stack is broken for merchants under $10-20 mn of revenue. Much like sewing together a patchwork quilt from scratch, these merchants today have to stitch together Shopify, ShipBob, UPS, Avalara, Wise, local import brokers, customs paperwork, random tax agents, and then sit down and pray nothing gets stuck at…
Best Practices in Fintech AI – Notes from our CEO conference
We recently had our 17th Annual QED CEO Summit in Washington, D.C. and had an amazing turnout from what we (admittedly somewhat biasedly!) think are the most exciting entrepreneurs and builders in the world of global fintech. Given the times we live in, it should not come as a surprise that we had lots of…
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