Money2020 Recap

I got back from Money2020 yesterday and as expected, I was absolutely drained. It was absolutely worth it though and I was absolutely impressed by the turnaround and the show. Money2020 is FinTech’s premier event and it absolutely lived up to it’s billing.

After TC Disrupt last week and Money2020 this week, I’m going to playing catchup for the next couple days and over the weekend on life and work. In the meantime, I figured I’d do a brain dump of some of my notes from over the week.

  • There seemed to be significantly more people attending this year than last year. I want to say that it was probably 4x the amount of attendees and possibly more.

  • FinTech has taken it’s blows over the last year, but based on this event, we’re on the rise.

  • Crypto was much less noticeable compared to last year, but there was definitely a big web3 presence

  • Many notable web3 companies that were present last year were missing from the event this year

  • There are so many companies issuing credit cards

  • I noticed quite a bit of Latam activity, especially from Brazil. The Nubank effect?

  • A lot of Neobanks that I saw last year were missing at the event this year

  • I need to do a much better job planning meetings next year. There were a lot of people that I wanted to see that I didn’t. I figured that I could just run into them and go grab a beer, but everyone is busy and schedules rarely line up.

  • Time with the team in person is invaluable. Next year, we all need to come in early and do some working days.

  • There’s a lot more to Vegas than the strip and I had a good weekend coming in early, but 5 days in Vegas is quite a bit of time

  • Chinatown Vegas has some absolutely fire food