Jar, an Indian fintech startup that allows users to invest in gold, has turned profitable by helping millions of first-time savers use its app to build digital gold holdings.
While many consumer fintechs focus on affluent urban users or credit products, Jar has gained traction by offering a culturally familiar asset — gold — as a low-barrier entry point to ... Show More
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Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek
Reflection, once focused on autonomous coding agents, has raised $2B at an $8B valuation to expand into both an opensource alternative to closed frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and a Western equivalent to Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek. Learn more about your ad choices. ... Show More
6m 48s
Dec 2024
OpenAI's Sora Finally Released, Bitcoin Hits $100K, and World's Largest Gold Deposit Found
We're experimenting and would love to hear from you!In today's episode of Discover Daily, we explore OpenAI's release of Sora, their new text-to-video generation tool that's creating waves in the creative industry. The system, capable of producing 60-second vid ... Show More
8m 22s
Aug 1
Jaime Carrasco: What Makes Silver the Goat of Investment Moves?
In this podcast interview, Jaime Carrasco, a portfolio manager at Carrasco Wealth Management, provides an in-depth analysis of the current economic landscape, focusing primarily on silver and gold as critical investment assets during a potential monetary reset. Carrasco argues th ... Show More
52m 55s
Sep 5
Gold Moves Beginner Investors Should Make Before the Next Price Surge
With gold prices nearing record highs, beginner investors should be exploring different gold investment options— before prices go higher.Today's Stocks & Topics: OMF - OneMain Holdings Inc., Market Wrap, ARE - Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc., APLD - Applied Digital Corporati ... Show More
46m 19s
Jun 2025
973. News: Walmart and Amazon explore stablecoins, and has Chime's IPO set a new benchmark for fintechs?
At 11:FS, we don’t just talk digital - we make it happen. We're building truly digital financial services by partnering with bold teams to take them from market insights to real-world products. Whether you're an incumbent innovating or a startup breaking new ground, we bring the ... Show More
1h 4m
Jan 2023
Base10’s Ade Ajao: A data-driven approach to funding more diverse founders
On today’s episode of McKinsey on Startups, we talk to Adeyemi Ajao, the cofounder and Managing Partner at Base 10 Partners. The San Francisco-based VC firm focuses on startups bringing automation technology to a variety of sectors in what it calls the Real Economy, including log ... Show More
33m 8s
Sep 29
Inside the GLP-1 Gold Rush: Eli Lilly CEO on New Breakthroughs, Addiction & Mental Health, Pricing
(0:00) Introducing Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks (1:43) How Eli Lilly discovered the GLP-1 impact on weight loss, counterfeit products from China (7:08) GLP-1 pricing and capital allocation after a breakout pharma product (12:56) Why Biotech VC has plummeted, “patent hacking” in China ... Show More
30m 40s
Nov 2024
What Will Bitcoin 100k Mean For Indian investors?
As Bitcoin nears $100,000, Trump’s pro-crypto policies, including a proposed Crypto Czar and a U.S. “Bitcoin stockpile,” are reshaping global sentiment about this asset class. The EU and UK are advancing crypto regulations, while India’s capital markets regulator SEBI hints at ... Show More
27m 38s