⚡ Zash Community Update 9: Team Announcements, Creator Economy, & More...
Building the future of retail investing
Dear All,
Happy Tuesday! Each week we update you on our latest happenings, developments, product updates, and more.
Why? Community is at the heart of our product. We want you to be part of the crucial steps of our product development. You can read all of our previous Community Updates here.
Zash Team Announcements 👨💻
This week, we’re excited to welcome our newest team member, Efe Uzel (yes, it’s another Efe)! Efe is joining us as a Full-Stack Engineer after previously having worked as a Data Scientist at Goldman Sachs, and a Project Manager at Aselsan, as an engineering contractor for the Turkish military. Efe’s background and experience will play a key role in helping us sprint even faster to get our delightful product in the hands of users.
Welcome to the team, Efe!
Welcome, Stanford Womxn in Design!
We’re also welcoming onboard Sophie, Emily, and Nadia - a stellar group of designers from the Stanford Womxn in Design (SWID) Consulting programme. SWID is the largest organization focused on empowering future design leaders at Stanford, and we’re incredibly excited to work together to design and build our product. Sleek, beautiful, and seamless designs incoming!
Member of the Week
In this week’s installation of our Member of the Week spotlight series, where we highlight some of our most engaged members across the community, we have: Agash Navaranjan. Here’s a little bit from Agash:
What do you generally like to invest in? I currently am investing quite heavily into Crypto and DeFi.
How would you describe your investing style? I started my investing career being quite safe so have built a basis of ETF’s and Dividend Stocks. Because of that my current investing style has changed to be a lot more risk investing in Alt Coins & NFT’s.
What industry/company’s future you’re excited by and why? I am excited by the future of DeFi and the transparency and access to capital it can bring. One of the reasons I started Kontinuous with Ross.
What do you love about the Zash Community? I have loved seeing the growth of Zash in such a short term and having a group of people to discuss finance with which I previously didn’t have.
Reading of the Week
The emergence of neobrokers and bottom-up communities has unlocked the potential of active trading - for the retail investor “Buy and Hold” may be a thing of the past
A large catalyst for the active trading revolution has been the power of online creators in enabling consumer trends, here’s how creators are monetizing culture
This capitalization on culture is seeing real impacts in the consumer markets trends, as was evidenced by Wuling (Chinese EV manufacturer’s) strategy to infuse creativity and uniqueness into its model - ultimately leading to more sales in January than Tesla’s Model 3 and Y combined
The increased rise of culture has meant that fintech has shifted from the business section to the style section, here’s why
Sophia, a humanoid robot that sold an art piece for nearly $700,000 comes to show that creators come in many shapes, sizes, (and bytes!)
And, yes, you guessed it - here’s what a16z has to say on the Creator Economy and NFT’s
That’s all for now and we’ll see you next week,
Team Zash
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