Immad Akhund says fintech's real challenge isn't the technical stuff like compliance or payments. It's building something customers actually want. Most fintech startups fail because they solved problems nobody had, not because the technology was hard.
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What's one piece of wisdom that changed the game for you? I'll give you one that I learned, which was actually quite impactful. Yeah, I was like, I know how to build a product, but I had no idea how to build a fintech thing. And it seems scary, right? And someone said this to me, which really helped. It was like, actually, the fintech part of building a fintech product is not the hard part. The hard part is building the product that people actually want. And the fintech stuff you can figure out if you actually build a product people want. And most things in fintech don't fail because the fintech was hard. I mean, there's probably some, but actually, like, they built a product that no one really wanted. Like, that's the real failure problem.