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▶ 6:20 · $FOMO · Fomo bets social trading can beat financial super-apps
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20VC

How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong

2026-06-27 · 7 company · 0 thematic
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speakers
paul erlanger

Co-founder and CEO of Fomo, a social-first mobile trading platform. He previously worked at the crypto derivatives exchange dYdX.

harry stebbings

Founder of 20VC (The Twenty Minute VC), one of the most popular venture-capital podcasts, and its associated fund.

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“Everything app means not intentional... At FOMO, we think it's the social graph. We think that you can express a thesis... in all these different things.”
—paul erlanger
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