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How Plaid Turned Banking Data Into A Growth Engine
Plaid didn't build a consumer app, yet it became one of the most valuable private fintech companies by connecting applications to bank accounts. Lucas and Luna explore how Plaid’s API-first strategy turned boring banking infrastructure into a critical growth engine for thousands of startups. We look at their early partnerships with Robinhood and Venmo, the unit economics of data access, and why becoming the invisible layer between apps and finance was the smartest moat they could build.
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