AI / ML

Why Don Muir Left Private Equity Dream Job to Start F2

In this episode of The Longest View, Dez speaks with Don Muir, Co-Founder and CEO of F2, about his journey from private equity at Apollo Global Management to building AI-powered financial intelligence platforms. The conversation explores the evolution from rules-based fintech to model-agnostic AI systems, highlighting Muir’s perspective on entrepreneurship and the transformative impact of AI on financial services.

Fintech

Mitchell Jones on Building Lava: Helping SaaS Companies Price for the Future

This week Dez is joined by Mitchell Jones, Co-Founder and CEO of Lava, a payments and billing infrastructure platform for AI companies. They discuss building fintech for the AI era, the importance of developer experience, and why real entrepreneurial progress comes from consistent execution, not hype.

Fintech

Building the Tokenized Money Core: Why We Invested in Rain

Stablecoins are crossing from crypto rails to real-world financial infrastructure—and Rain is building the tokenized money core that makes programmable, global dollar movement possible at scale.