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Why FinTech Applications Are So Costly and Slow to Build

1/7/2019

 

A Painful $26.5M Lesson

Six years ago I had the opportunity to lead the engineering team building the reconciliation and operations backend for a broker-dealer. The founders envisioned Motif Investing, a $125M VC backed retail trading platform for the masses; the Robinhood of our time.
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https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/motif-investing#section-funding-rounds
In late 2012, after raising over $25M and 2 ½ years of development, we finally got the beta out the door. It would be months before we would publicly launch. While a startup faces many challenges, I do not believe Motif was ever able to recover from the enormous costs to get started. I learned just how costly and slow it is to build FinTech applications.​

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