Name: Dark Underbelly of FinTech
Start: 2025-08-28T19:00:00.000-04:00
End: 2025-08-28T21:00:00.000-04:00
Location: New York, New York

Informal "Fireside Chats" between a Technology Solutions Firm and an expert in their field about topics of mutual interest in person in our East Village office.

Tête-à-Tech

Join Cindy Gallop (Founder and CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn) and Noah Landow (Founder and CEO at Macktez) for an informal conversation about the surprisingly complex, conservative, and convoluted financial services companies that together to form the secretive layers underpinning the electronic financial systems we take advantage of every day. Underneath the shiny Stripe, Apple Pay, Square and well-heeled Visa, MasterCard, and Amex, lies a sprawling world of companies and services that connect the world’s financial institutions to each other and you. 

Cindy is an unabashed voice, advocating for more women founders, and embodying the principles for which she argues, for reform of this ever-more powerful industry. During this engaging conversation, we will explore how the poorly understood world of financial services controls what art is created, what companies are founded and funded, and what businesses are able to get the money they need to build exciting tools. Strange and surprisingly limitations and conventions abound in this space, hidden largely from view, and wrapped in euphemism and innuendo. It dictates who has access to resources, and gatekeeps access to reaching financial success across a spectrum of people and companies.

Join us at the Macktez office, after work, over light snacks and sips, for a thought-provoking discussion on how a broader, deeper understanding of FinTech could enable positive change to create greater opportunities for equity in the decades ahead. 

We ask that guests arrive between 7-7:30 pm to minimize disruption during the talk.

7 pm - Doors open, opportunity to mingle over snacks and sips with other attendees

7:30 pm - Guests take their seats for the talk

We have a limited capacity (and often have a long waitlist!). If your plans change, please update your registration so someone else can join.

A bit about Macktez, and why we host this series

Macktez is a technology consultancy collaborating with organizations going through dynamic change. 

​Our goal is to form a lasting partnership between our team and our clients, so we can anticipate their technology challenges and help them navigate growth, disruption, and other evolving conditions.

​Each event in our Tête-à-Tech series is an opportunity to explore a specific cultural, scientific, historical, and personal issue. We fire at the synapses that connect each topic to other fields of interest and to our individual lives. And we do so in a comfortable environment to facilitate conversation that can be casual, surprising, and illuminating.