I shared this with a friend a few years ago. It's humbling to work on a project long enough to see most of your best work replaced by something new. A lot of the work I contributed to in the early days at Dwolla, we've shut down or replaced. Even my early business models have… Continue reading Saying Goodbye To Old Products
Showing up
I was having a conversation with Jami this afternoon at brunch about different books that friends or acquaintances have written and how that ends up changing our relationship with them, normally for the better, because of how much more we know about them and the depth of what we're able to discuss when we are… Continue reading Showing up
5 Takeaways from 2016
2016 is a year that I'll remember more about how I felt emotionally rather than the milestones. The specifics of it I don't think I will recall well 10 years from now. I think I'll remember more about how I felt at various points this year as opposed to specific events. Jami broke out on her… Continue reading 5 Takeaways from 2016
Much respect to those that ship
I had the extreme pleasure of giving my first college lecture with my partner Jami this year. This was unique for me. I’ve given more college lectures at this point than I received in college so I always take a lot of joy from these interactions. I never found my place in college as a… Continue reading Much respect to those that ship
Same Day ACH in a API
Dwolla just brought Same Day ACH online for our customers and I'm super pleased with how it works. I wrote about this briefly in the past but looking at just how simple it is for people to build into their app just puts a big smile on my face. Existing customers sending money simply designate… Continue reading Same Day ACH in a API
Focus is good
There is an update that was put on Dwolla's website today called Focus. The post is about functionality that will no longer be supported in our products. Sunsetting features is nothing new for the company but this feels different. The company is different. The products we're building now are different. Where we're innovating is different. It feels… Continue reading Focus is good
Team
I genuinely like the people I work with. Each one of them has taught me something new and certainly, at times, helped change my perspective. Dwolla has gone through a tremendous number of changes over the past 12 months and we're about to go through one of the more profound changes in our short history.… Continue reading Team
Same Day ACH
Same Day ACH is kind of an obvious stop gap between normal ACH and a future real-time ACH-ish equivalent. I say ACH-ish because I still don't believe that the real-time option is a modified ACH, it's probably something else. Same Day ACH on the other hand is going to be available soon and does a… Continue reading Same Day ACH
Automation we will live to see
// Over the last few months I've been back on a plane quite a bit. Its given me time to do some reading. Specifically, Cybernation, Who owns the future, and But, What if We're Wrong. // You'd be right to expect this has something to do with financial services, but doesn't! A lot of the discussions… Continue reading Automation we will live to see
A real-time dashboard for bank transfers
At the end of last year, Dwolla's white label APIs started to ship and it kicked off a number of projects internally. One of those internal projects was re-thinking the way information is delivered to developers building applications that leverage Dwolla for ACH transfers. The concept for the project was to create an insightful view for developers and their business counterparts. It… Continue reading A real-time dashboard for bank transfers