20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

682.335 - 699.971 Zach Perret

MARK MANDELMANN- Yeah, so the early history of Plaid was we needed to integrate with all the banks. And these integrations were not like flip a switch, magically integrations on. It's like a lot of work to actually set up integration with the bank. In the early days, we had to actually build screen scrapers for the banks, because the banks didn't have APIs. And every screen scraper was different.