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Show Notes
- 09:59 – A Message from Founder and CEO Kurt Rathmann - ScaleFactor
- 12:06 – Fintech Startup That Raised $100 Million From Investors Bessemer And Coatue Is Abruptly Shutting Down - Forbes
- 14:05 – ScaleFactor is shutting down after coronavirus craters sales – Austin Business Journal
- 16:58 – ScaleFactor Announces “2.020” Vision, Including Plans to Build Marketplace for On-Demand Financial Solutions – Business Wire
- 19:45 – Our early ScaleFactor speculations - Episode 70
- 20:36 – The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch - 20VC: Raising $105m in Just 13 Months Over 3 Separate Rounds, The 5 Core Ways VCs Can Add Value & How Founders Can and Should Fully Leverage Their Cap Table with Kurt Rathmann, Founder & CEO @ ScaleFactor – The Twenty Minute VC
- 29:16 – ScaleFactor: Our Response to the News - Acuity
- 32:18 – Wirecard AG’s former chief executive officer was detained by Munich prosecutors – Accounting Today
- 33:42 – Wirecard filed for bankruptcy this week – Wall Street Journal
- Backstory: Wirecard’s suspect accounting practices revealed – Financial Times
- 34:00 – Softbank sues E&Y over Wirecard - CNBC
- 38:36 – Nasdaq to suspend trading of Luckin Coffee shares from Monday - Reuters
- 39:12 – GE KPMG Auditor Swap: General Electric and KPMG Officially Call It Quits – Going Concern
- 40:38 – Intuit changes tech development focus, lays off 715 – Accounting Today
- 44:45 – IRS sent $1.4B in stimulus checks to dead people, audit finds – Accounting Today
- 47:42 – PPP recipients can apply early for loan forgiveness, SBA says - Journal of Accountancy
- 48:31 – SBA exempted lawmakers, federal officials from ethics rules in $660 billion loan program – Washington Post
- 52:39 – Mastercard to purchase open-banking company Finicity for $825 million – MarketWatch
- 55:40 – Last week's Square discussion – Episode 180
- 56:35 – Are Intuit and Square dating? - Square
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Blake Oliver: [00:00:20] One of the questions I had immediately was where did all the money go? What happened to the $100 million? Because there's no way, with 100 employees, that they burned through $100 million in a year. Not possible.
David Leary: [00:00:32] That's a lot of money, but they got 1,000 clients. That's $100,000 per client. I texted somebody who is a leader at a Top-100 accounting firm, and I said, "Hey, can I buy your firm for $100 million?" I...