Yasmine Lacaillade, founding partner at Sinefine, walked down Park Avenue in New York and noticed everyone talking about Facebook, big-tech disruptions, and the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Even in traditional finance circles, tech conversations are now unavoidable.
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Do you wanna kick it off from there and talk a bit about what your experience has been seeing that from the inside? Yeah. You know what's really funny? I was actually, I was walking down Park Avenue and I had just finished listening to one of your podcasts. 'Cause I was like, oh, I'm gonna go on your podcast. I need to, like, I need to hear the last episode so I make sure I don't like say all the same things as Erin, who is a super, super cool woman who I actually recently had the pleasure of speaking with at Pivotal. So I literally took off my headphones. And I'm walking down the street and, you know, Park Avenue. I lived in New York for 5, 7 years, can't even remember. And New York is home to traditional banking, hedge funds, that whole bro community. And I was so surprised that everyone I was walking by was either talking about like Facebook or big tech rifts or SVB or First Republic Bank.