Leading @Affirm’s international expansion | Early stage investor @LorimerVentures
London, England
Joined March 2015
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Millions of @amazon 🇬🇧 customers can now access @Affirm. We've delivered a simple, streamlined UX for customers... abstracting huge lending complexity across credit, regs, payments, ops, etc. All the while putting customers first w/ no surprises, compounding interest, fees etc!
We're live with @amazon in the UK with the full range of terms you'd expect from @Affirm, and a new Pay in 3 plan! No late fees, obviously. Congrats to the UK teams and all Affirmers!
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Thanks for having me on 11:FS! Enjoyed discussing all things underwriting & open banking as @Affirm scales to new markets with diverse fidelities of credit data
Great listen 🔥🎧 with @LorimerVentures Venture Partner @deRafols discussing @Affirm's approach to underwriting & open banking as his teams scale to new markets across Europe🇪🇺.
Also - he's hiring!
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🌎 Momentum continues as @Affirm goes international- today we launched with @Shopify in CA 🇨🇦, by the summer we'll be live in the UK 🇬🇧 w/ hundreds of thousands of merchants, and in the coming qtrs we'll be in Australia, Netherlands, Germany, and France
📰 Breaking: Affirm & @Shopify take Shop Pay Installments global 🌍!
Here’s the news:
🇨🇦 Canada launches today w/ early access – SPI’s first market outside 🇺🇸
🇬🇧 UK and Canada general availability this summer
🇦🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇱 More geos to come!
Learn more: bit.ly/42pRtM6
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@Affirm is now live with @Adyen in the UK! The partnership further accelerates our scale—thousands of UK merchants can now go live offering Affirm with minimal integration effort and expanding access to checkout options to their customers.
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🇬🇧 Tremendously excited to announce we're launching @Shopify in the UK soon. This is just the beginning for @Affirm ramping up to significant scale in the UK and beyond.
Success builds on success: we are excited to expand our amazing partnership with @Shopify to their home base 🇨🇦 and to set the stage for 🇬🇧 and beyond! Thank you for the trust and extraordinary collaboration, @tobi, @harleyf, and @nejatian.
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👏🏻 @alexandr_wang @scale_AI! Their journey from "outsourced BPO" moniker to being THE leading data foundry for AI is well deserved and a transition I witnessed firsthand.
Circa 2016/7 at Dataminr, (same yr @scale_AI was founded), we faced the nightmarish task of building and maintaining a complex set of AI systems, many of which Scale now offers out of the box…
1/ Today, @Scale_AI is announcing $1B of financing at a $13.8B valuation. The round was led by @Accel along with our existing investors.
@Scale_AI has never been better positioned to accelerate the abundance of frontier data and pave the road for AGI. 🧵
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The AI systems overhead at the time was vast… from tooling to standardize ML model accuracy, to building our own custom & multi-modal human-in-the-loop data labeling platform, to launching entire ML QA systems for models (in the early days many co’s literally used in Google Sheets with dozens of tabs to manage QA of dozens of deployed ML models).
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Overnight music production goes from @Gladwell’s @thebeatles law of 10,000 hours of practice -> teen generating a top tier hit in seconds
Here’s an early preview of ElevenLabs Music.
All of the songs in this thread were generated from a single text prompt with no edits.
Title: It Started to Sing
Style: “Pop pop-rock, country, top charts song.”
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