Alex Harris, Founding Partner of Fiat Ventures & Fiat Growth

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Alex Harris, Founding Partner of Fiat Growth and General Partner at Fiat Ventures. Prior to Fiat, Alex led paid growth and partnerships at Chime, flexing his innovation skills and data-driven approach. His deep knowledge of the Fintech market provides superior marketing, business development, and growth strategies for Fiat’s clients.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction: Alex Harris, Founding Partner of Fiat Ventures & Fiat Growth
• 1:22 About Fiat Ventures and Fiat Growth
• 5:54 Investments Outside the Fiat Growth Business
• 6:44 Advice For Those Raising Funds
• 10:02 The Competitive Advantage and the Fiat Fintech
• 13:02 Strategic Insight to the Success
• 14:35 The Value Add Path
• 20:08 Splitting the Tasks for Fiat Growth and Fiat Ventures
• 23:20 Where did you spend the most of your time learning?
• 24:59 Conversation that can Lead to a Strategic Insight for Business
• 27:01 Major Trends in Fintech Today
• 30:05 Dental Technology and Fintech
• 30:49 The Dental Health
• 34:29 Fintech and Crypto
• 36:08 Is there a conflict of Interest between the two emerging ecosystem?
• 39:20 US Dollar and Bitcoin
• 41:09 Managing time for ecosystem and day-to-day tasks
• 43:25 Does the current happenings affect your investment outlook?
• 45:22 Potential Categories of Companies that are in The Early Seed Stage
• 46:55 The Growing Market of AI
• 49:09 AI: Hype Bubble?
• 51:32 Hype Bubble Cycles in the Space