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Christina Bechhold Russ @CMBechs

Head of Truist Ventures/ Co-Founder @empireangels / Contributor @WSJ

Joined August 2010
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Loved chatting about the launch of #Truist Foundry and our full steam ahead Investment strategy with @newsient bankingdive.com/news/truist-…

New Truist innovation team includes Long Game engineers

“The decisions that banks make over the next two to three years from a technology perspective are going to define who wins over the next decade,” said Christina Bechhold Russ, head of strategic...

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On the record that not everyone at #money2020 is in Allbirds and a vest. Thanks@for a great Women in Fintech happy hour @usealloy !
Monica Murthy (she/hers)@MonicaAMurthy
25 Oct 2022
Replying to @MonicaAMurthy
Fun in floral @CMBechs
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Scalable investment banking. I dig it. reut.rs/3MMQIEp

JPMorgan launches fundraising platform to lure startups

JPMorgan Chase & Co is launching a platform that aims to connect startup founders with venture capital investors to simplify the fundraising process, the bank told Reuters.

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Just reading this headline made me feel anxious all over again
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I would add “let’s discuss” as well.
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Everyone thinks less of brands that send emails that might solicit a reply (order confirmations, event invites, etc.) from unmonitored mailboxes, yes?
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Moov Financial@moov
26 Sep 2022
🚀 How are #developers bringing about the next era of #payments? Hear @wadearnold, @CMBechs, & Ilya share how to build a developer experience that accelerates payments modernization. #money2020 🗓️ Oct. 25, 2:00pm - 2:30pm 📍 Build Bold Stage, Level 2 🔗 loom.ly/TjsmIAE
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One of my dreams is to be a guest on the @TheGNShow, cocktail in hand discussing the news of the day with clever celebrities. This engaging @Finovate cocktail hour panel on super apps wasn’t quite that, but the glass of champagne made for fun practice
Something sobering about @amazonmusic My Soundrack saying “based on Geek Music, London Music and Toddler Time.” Much as your credit score should take into account paying rent (hey @getesusu), I want a holistic music taste graph accounting for, say, @SXMPopRocks in the car
Cheap, mean, stupid or all of the above?
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I met the future of table service restaurant #payments today
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And still seeing a lot of founders share offers, priced pre-decline theinformation.com/articles/…

Startup Workers Find Founders Cashed Out When They Couldn’t

A few weeks before Ryan Breslow stepped down as CEO of commerce software startup Bolt in January, he made a deal with investors. As part of a funding round in which BlackRock and other investors...

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Renato Leonard Capelj
@renatolcapelj
9 Aug 2022
Chatted w/@CMBechs about how @TruistNews is "improving the #financial lives" of users. Learn about the above and more, like the characteristics that help her be a successful leader, below! benzinga.com/fintech/22/08/2… @Benzinga
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Astounding amount of fraud on FB marketplace involving a lot of people being out of town, sending their son/friend/whomever to pickup the item and sending fake payment by Zelle. Getting weird joy out of telling them I’ll only accept Venmo.
Finally, an NFT use case that has utility and doesn’t involve kittens or apes on.wsj.com/3LGWxRS
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Congrats to @getgrover, Europe’s newest unicorn - very proud of this one from my old team in Berlin! on.wsj.com/3E0W6Qc #circulareconomy
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Sitting here thinking this #SuperBowl halftime show is nostalgic to me the way the The Rolling Stones playing in 2006 was to my parents, an it’s 🤯
Several years ago I tried to get people interested in companies building marketplaces and displays specially designed for displaying digital art, and no one thought there was a market there 🤨 on.wsj.com/3uoZly8
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I’m hiring! Fun role encompassing thought leadership and sourcing. We’re also looking for a Principal Technologist to be our go-to on all things technical 👩‍💻👨‍💻 bit.ly/3pZpwbO
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Everyone sees an AWS outage and is surprised how many major companies running on it don’t build resilient, fault tolerant infrastructure right? You don’t see the CIA collapsing because the US East Region went down
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