Linkage: Core Themes June 2019
Spencer crushes our daily Linkage and if you’re not reading it, you’re missing out on the core themes that shape consumer finance, real estate, tech, and your career each day.
The only problem is that with him running our daily curation so well, I pile up links of broad themes I’m also watching. So I’m closing down 8000 browser tabs tonight and placing key topics I’m watching into this collection below.
Hope you find it useful, and we’ll continue daily deeper dives with individual posts on all key themes, companies, and people.
REAL ESTATE & LENDING STUFF
- 2019 bidding wars increase(redfin.com)
- Keller Williams is now buying homes. Or is it just riding the iBuyer trend to get leads?(inman.com)
- Zillow, Opendoor, Compass, Redfin focus on consumer instead of industry politics(inman.com)
- Deep dive on Zillow's massive swing into buying homes (seekingalpha.com)
- Startups like EasyKnock buy your home, rent it back to you, and let you profit if value grows(cnbc.com)
- Strategies for lenders to maintain profitability (stratmorgroup.com)
- Housing regulator Calabria right that local red tape prevents more building(housingwire.com)
- Why 2019 tech IPOs don't change San Francisco real estate prices(linkedin.com)
- The Rise and Fall of Purple Bricks discount real estate brokerage(mikedp.com)
- Fannie & Freddie prop up mortgage market because of government backing. What if this went away? (nationalmortgagenews.com)
- Stock exchange buys mortgage processor(wsj.com)
- Do sellers net more selling to Zillow than when using a realtor? (notorious-rob.com)
CONSUMER FINANCE & FINTECH STUFF
- SPECIAL REPORT: Young people and their phones are shaking up banking(economist.com)
- Tech's raid on the banks(economist.com)
- Why financial literacy is so elusive(bloomberg.com)
- Financial literacy is mostly propaganda. Banks must lead with action, not words(americanbanker.com)
- Harvard teaches personal financial literacy(wsj.com)
- One-third of people used fintech bank apps--and that was a year ago(bankingjournal.aba.com)
- Bond market giving warning signs about economy(nytimes.com)
- What is banking as a service? (CB Insights)(cbinsights.com)
- Everything Amazon is doing in financial services (CB Insights)(cbinsights.com)
- Are 2019 fintech disruptors making progress (CB Insights) (cbinsights.com)
- America's biggest banks offloading parts of home lending to startups(businessinsider.com)
- How Blockchain Will Disrupt Real Estate (CB Insights)(cbinsights.com)
- The end of LIBOR changes everything for mortgage lenders(housingwire.com)
MEDIA & MARKETING STUFF
- How Facebook could target ads in age of encryption(ft.com)
- Why Facebook wants to launch its own currency(ft.com)
- Zuckerberg unveils Facebook's future(ft.com)
- Fecebook's WeChat Moment(economist.com)
- Facebook's third act: privacy(economist.com)
- Facebook's pivot to privacy solves discriminatory advertising(arxiv.org)
- Facebook privacy push is to charge more for ads by knowing even more about you(convinceandconvert.com)
- How the 8 fastest growing finance apps ever grew so fast (CB Insights)(cbinsights.com)
- Customer Journey we all preach today was clear in 2013 - SLIDESHOW(slideshare.net)
- How Customers Cut Banks From Digital Journey(thefinancialbrand.com)
CAREER & STARTUP STUFF
- Section 1202 of the tax code is how startup founders minimize taxable gains(investopedia.com)
- Here are the 2019 startups backed by National Association of Realtors VC arm(inman.com)
- Disruption of management consulting (CB Insights) (cbinsights.com)
- How secure is employment in old age?(urban.org)
- Mortgage crisis poster child Angelo Mozilo revisionist career tour, part 1(businessinsider.com)
- Mortgage crisis poster child Angelo Mozilo revisionist career tour, part 2(nypost.com)
- Mortgage crisis poster child Angelo Mozilo revisionist career tour, part 3(bloomberg.com)