The operators playbook: Opinions and thoughts from the QED collective

Remitly, a Seattle startup that helps immigrants in developed countries send money home to family and friends in developing nations, is raising new funding to tackle the $700 billion money-transfer market. It secured $135 million in equity financing.

Without risk, there’s no return, In order to do our jobs well we have to get used to a risk profile that is comprised of equal parts failure and success.

Neither finance nor new technologies are necessarily inclusive or exclusive by design. Rather, it is how we use them as a society that determines the ultimate utility of a technology.