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Instead of leveraging outsiders to build their brands, a crop of forward-thinking companies have started partnering with a new set of stakeholders: their own employees.

Astrology expresses complex ideas about personality, life cycles, and relationship patterns through the shorthand of the planets and zodiac symbols. And that shorthand works well online, where symbols and shorthand are often baked into communication.

Cross River Bank is an interesting example; a major line of their business is originating loans for fintechs which are then largely sold to funding sources that the fintech has lined up (such as investors looking for yield in a low interest environment). This gives CRB an interesting cross section of credit risk across the U.S. footprint of their c... See more

Market-protocol fit can be divided into 3 conceptually distinct phases: