# What we are reading at Jupiter?

**URL:** <https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690>\
**Category:** News from Jupiter\
**Tags:** news\
**Created:** [17 June 2020 11:42 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690 "2020-06-17T11:42:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![sahil-sorathiya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/sahil-sorathiya/32/584_2.png) [@sahil-sorathiya](https://community.jupiter.money/u/sahil-sorathiya)\
**Post date:** [17 June 2020 11:42 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/1 "2020-06-17T11:42:17Z")

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Get a sneak peek on what we are reading @ Jupiter 🚀. Keep an eye for new blogs, articles, news 📰 to RBI circulars 📝to APIs 🖥 , research articles 🤓 that we reading.

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**Author:** ![sahil-sorathiya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/sahil-sorathiya/32/584_2.png) [@sahil-sorathiya](https://community.jupiter.money/u/sahil-sorathiya)\
**Post date:** [17 June 2020 11:44 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/2 "2020-06-17T11:44:05Z")

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Ingenious!

> **[This 41-Year-Old Math Professor Is Worth $700m](https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/duolingo-is-not-just-a-language-app-59e573e04705)**
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> The frightening genius of Luis Von Ahn, a math professor who created CAPTCHA and Duolingo.

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**Author:** ![sahil-sorathiya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/sahil-sorathiya/32/584_2.png) [@sahil-sorathiya](https://community.jupiter.money/u/sahil-sorathiya)\
**Post date:** [18 June 2020 16:28 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/3 "2020-06-18T16:28:26Z")

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> " Provide a shockingly great claims experience through empathy, transparency, availability, and speed." - the mission statement of Claims Experience Team @ Lemonade

Lemonade is a venture-backed rental and home insurance company based in the USA and announced that it’s going public. Here is a piece of their transparent review in 2018 that we read :

> **[We suck, sometimes](https://www.lemonade.com/blog/lemonade-transparency-review/)**
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> After 20 months in market, we thought it'd be nice to review our growth, expansion, and some things that still don't work as well as we'd like.

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**Author:** ![sahil-sorathiya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/sahil-sorathiya/32/584_2.png) [@sahil-sorathiya](https://community.jupiter.money/u/sahil-sorathiya)\
**Post date:** [22 June 2020 07:38 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/5 "2020-06-22T07:38:46Z")

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> Listen to your customers, and know which features they want to see the most. You don’t necessarily want to implement every suggestion, but product professionals need to listen to direct requests carefully, with humility and deep consideration. - Adam Nash

> **[Guide to Product Planning: Three Feature Buckets](https://adamnash.blog/2009/07/22/guide-to-product-planning-three-feature-buckets/)**
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> In the spirit of capturing some of the observations that I find myself repeating, I’m adding this one to the mix tonight.  Unlike the previous two, this is really a piece of concrete advice f…

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**Author:** ![sahil-sorathiya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/sahil-sorathiya/32/584_2.png) [@sahil-sorathiya](https://community.jupiter.money/u/sahil-sorathiya)\
**Post date:** [23 June 2020 16:53 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/6 "2020-06-23T16:53:32Z")

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Lenny’s view on how to get the first 1,000 users. It is a concise list of things to do for a startup: so read this and simply follow!

> **[How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users - Issue 25](https://www.lennyrachitsky.com/p/how-the-biggest-consumer-apps-got)**
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> Considering every startup confronts this question at some point, I was surprised by how little has been written about it. Particularly anything actionable. So I decided to do my own digging. I spent the past month personally reaching out to founders,...

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**Author:** ![sahil-sorathiya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/sahil-sorathiya/32/584_2.png) [@sahil-sorathiya](https://community.jupiter.money/u/sahil-sorathiya)\
**Post date:** [24 June 2020 17:37 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/7 "2020-06-24T17:37:27Z")

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“While there are early signs of recovery, industry insiders continue to remain sceptical. Multiple lending players are tightening their credit screws.”

> **[Exclusive: Fintech lenders set to restart giving fresh loans, but exercise...](https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/exclusive-fintech-lenders-set-to-restart-giving-fresh-loans-but-exercise-extreme-caution-5449111.html)**
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> Digital lenders say they need banks to ease their lending strings more; small businesses need some liquidity support to restart

`this was posted on our community group on WhatsApp`

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**Author:** ![sahil-sorathiya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/sahil-sorathiya/32/584_2.png) [@sahil-sorathiya](https://community.jupiter.money/u/sahil-sorathiya)\
**Post date:** [29 June 2020 03:28 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/8 "2020-06-29T03:28:34Z")

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Appeal of Marc to all the founders, critics, government is

> “Here’s a modest proposal to my critics. Instead of attacking my ideas of what to build, conceive your own! What do you think we should build? There’s an excellent chance I’ll agree with you.”

> **[It’s Time to Build | Andreessen Horowitz](https://a16z.com/its-time-to-build/)**
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> Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we...

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**Author:** ![sahil-sorathiya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/sahil-sorathiya/32/584_2.png) [@sahil-sorathiya](https://community.jupiter.money/u/sahil-sorathiya)\
**Post date:** [1 July 2020 14:26 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/9 "2020-07-01T14:26:49Z")

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How can incumbent banks compete with Neo Banks:

> **[Digital Bank Strategy — The Missing 4th Option](https://medium.com/@cgledhill/digital-bank-strategy-the-missing-4th-option-a13fe8689aa4)**
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> I conducted a twitter survey on Bank Strategy and I was surprised by the inconclusive results. I asked my followers (who are mostly…

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**Author:** ![sahil-sorathiya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/sahil-sorathiya/32/584_2.png) [@sahil-sorathiya](https://community.jupiter.money/u/sahil-sorathiya)\
**Post date:** [6 July 2020 12:26 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/10 "2020-07-06T12:26:24Z")

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We are always curious to know what has worked best in other geographies. This blogger went through account opening process in 12 banks and wrote this piece. Very interesting pieces of information on what each bank does differently and which one nails the onboarding experience.

> **[What the challenger banks did differently — Opening an account - Built for Mars](https://builtformars.co.uk/banks/opening/)**
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> Analysing the experience of opening 12 bank accounts.

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**Author:** ![sahil-sorathiya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/sahil-sorathiya/32/584_2.png) [@sahil-sorathiya](https://community.jupiter.money/u/sahil-sorathiya)\
**Post date:** [8 July 2020 06:58 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/11 "2020-07-08T06:58:07Z")

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Here is to remember one of our principles at Jupiter - Reimagining!!

1 minuter narrated by Steve Jobs himself:

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/jupiter/original/1X/8009cd9df7de0522a4aac372ad9d4673f1d2b878.jpeg "Apple Think Different - Steve Jobs Narrated Version") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEPhLqwKo6g)

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**Author:** ![Angana\_S](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/angana_s/32/1055_2.png) [@Angana\_S](https://community.jupiter.money/u/Angana_S)\
**Post date:** [24 July 2020 13:43 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/12 "2020-07-24T13:43:19Z")

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The Decameron Project! 29 Authors write short stories about the moment this pandemic has led us all to. Is there a story that interests you the most?

> **[The Decameron Project: New Fiction](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/07/magazine/decameron-project-short-story-collection.html?referringSource=articleShare)**
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> Twenty-nine short stories to help us try to understand this moment. Fiction by Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, Charles Yu, David Mitchell, Rachel Kushner and more.

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**Author:** ![sahil-sorathiya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/sahil-sorathiya/32/584_2.png) [@sahil-sorathiya](https://community.jupiter.money/u/sahil-sorathiya)\
**Post date:** [27 July 2020 09:22 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/13 "2020-07-27T09:22:37Z")

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> **[The Audacity of Copying Well](https://stratechery.com/2016/the-audacity-of-copying-well/)**
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> Instagram copied Snapchat, and that’s a good thing: differentiation is about far more than features, and this is Facebook’s best shot at holding off Snapchat.

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**Author:** ![Seher\_Mehta1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/seher_mehta1/32/912_2.png) [@Seher\_Mehta1](https://community.jupiter.money/u/Seher_Mehta1)\
**Post date:** [19 August 2020 13:24 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/14 "2020-08-19T13:24:17Z")

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The observer effect - 1st edition

> **[The Observer Effect – Marc Andreessen](https://www.theobservereffect.org/marc.html)**
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> Marc Andreessen on how he spends his time, learns, the 'build' essay and much more.

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**Author:** ![sneh.baxi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/sneh.baxi/32/622_2.png) [@sneh.baxi](https://community.jupiter.money/u/sneh.baxi)\
**Post date:** [15 January 2021 06:08 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/15 "2021-01-15T06:08:13Z")

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From every company being a FinTech company, to every FinTech company now wanting to be an insurance company, 2021 seems like a beginning!

> **[The Big Ideas Fintech Will Tackle in 2021 - Andreessen Horowitz](https://a16z.com/2020/12/17/big-ideas-for-fintech-2021/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=fintechweeklycom)**
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> Democratizing investing, embracing social+, embedding insurance, revamping distribution, empowering community, and disintermediating the banking system.

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**Author:** ![Jayesh\_Sidhwani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/jayesh_sidhwani/32/231_2.png) [@Jayesh\_Sidhwani](https://community.jupiter.money/u/Jayesh_Sidhwani)\
**Post date:** [27 January 2021 10:58 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/16 "2021-01-27T10:58:56Z")

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The first Future of FinTech on Clubhouse! Interesting read ahead :

> <https://twitter.com/weekinclubhouse/status/1354248311272685569?s=20>
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> Maia Bittner  🚘 ☕️ 🍃 💫 @maiab

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**Author:** ![sahil-sorathiya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/sahil-sorathiya/32/584_2.png) [@sahil-sorathiya](https://community.jupiter.money/u/sahil-sorathiya)\
**Post date:** [4 February 2021 09:43 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/17 "2021-02-04T09:43:14Z")

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A unique take on how futuristic bank might look like:

> **[Fintech’s Final Frontier: Central Banks and Disintermediation - Andreessen...](https://a16z.com/2021/01/15/fintechs-final-frontier/)**
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> The government should turn every social security number into a unique and secure bank account, enabling it to deposit money directly to consumers.

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**Author:** ![Manoj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/manoj/32/74_2.png) [@Manoj](https://community.jupiter.money/u/Manoj)\
**Post date:** [8 March 2021 09:55 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/18 "2021-03-08T09:55:07Z")

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Customers needs services not account! How consumer’s shadow financial lives is eclipsing their touch with traditional banking services

> **[The Mobile Finance Apps That Banks Don’t Know Their Customers Use](https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronshevlin/2021/03/01/the-financial-apps-banks-dont-know-that-their-customers-use/?sh=14d64a7757e6)**
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> A new study from Cornerstone Advisors found that 76% of all smartphone owners use mobile apps to manage their finances from fintech companies like Robinhood, PayPal, and Credit Karma.

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**Author:** ![Shawnpinto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/shawnpinto/32/7656_2.png) [@Shawnpinto](https://community.jupiter.money/u/Shawnpinto)\
**Post date:** [1 April 2022 13:02 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/21 "2022-04-01T13:02:43Z")

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That’s huge 🤯

> **[UPI hits new milestone of five billion transactions a month in March](https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-bytes/in-a-first-upi-transactions-hit-five-billion-a-month-in-march/articleshow/90557520.cms)**
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> NPCI, which operates UPI along with other payments infrastructure including Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS), Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS), among others said that total UPI transactions recorded stood at 5.04 billion (or 504 crore), for a...

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**Author:** ![CarolinMerces](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/carolinmerces/32/20885_2.png) [@CarolinMerces](https://community.jupiter.money/u/CarolinMerces)\
**Post date:** [1 April 2022 13:39 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/22 "2022-04-01T13:39:09Z")

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UPI = Instant. Instant Payment Instant Refund​:stuck\_out\_tongue\_closed\_eyes:😀 That’s why we prefer UPI Make UPI Available WorldWide

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**Author:** ![Binoy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.jupiter.money/binoy/32/4448_2.png) [@Binoy](https://community.jupiter.money/u/Binoy)\
**Post date:** [1 April 2022 17:25 UTC](https://community.jupiter.money/t/what-we-are-reading-at-jupiter/690/23 "2022-04-01T17:25:02Z")

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Interesting! 👀

“Currently, NPCI is piloting several projects with UPI, including UPI Lite, which will allow users to allocate funds from their bank accounts to the service to make offline transactions. The motive behind launching the service is to reduce the load on the UPI infrastructure, and avoid downtime for the service.”

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