Rare Chance to Meet Joe Salesky: the Founder Who Built Mobile Banking Before the iPhone
Fireside chat on why every fintech is becoming a media company, and every media company a fintech
Description:
MrBeast acquired a fintech. Robinhood bought a media company. Cash App runs a film festival. Every neobank ships a podcast. Every creator wants a card.
This is not a trend. It is the next decade of consumer finance.
Join us at Bar Moxy in South Lake Union for an on-stage conversation between Joe Salesky and Ankur Tyagi on why the line between fintech and media is collapsing, and what gets built on the other side.
Joe is the founder of Recon Analytics and ex founder of ClairMail, the company that pioneered mobile banking and was acquired by Fiserv. He held the original patent for web conferencing through Pixion, before WebEx existed. He was CEO of CRMNEXT, serving over one billion accounts globally. Today he leads AI research at Recon Analytics, where his work on user-driven AI adoption is being cited in the Wall Street Journal. 📓
Ankur and Max are the founders and GP of OnlyExit, a Seattle accelerator and fund focused on generational collisions between experienced operators and AI-native builders. Ankur previously founded Spaces Financial, an AI-native fintech in the rewards category.
What we will get into:
Why banks tried merchant-funded rewards in 2010 and failed, and what is different now
The MrBeast playbook: when distribution becomes the actual product
Why 30% of paying AI users churn every year, and what that means for every consumer fintech
What the next generation of card products looks like when Chase and Amex cannot move fast enough
Drinks. Real conversation. Limited capacity.
Saturday, May 9th
Bar Moxy, South Lake Union, Seattle
Free. Limited seats. Seattle.