$100T is managed by "human duct tape" | E2308

How did we end up in a world with $100 trillion in assets and a terrible fund management stack? It's human duct tape, legacy services businesses that are running the entire backbone of these hundred trillion of global assets. They're buying QuickBooks, they're buying build.com, they're buying Excel. And so you end up in this like crazy situation where you're stuck with a bunch of human middlemen that that are holding your own data hostage. B2B SaaS was dead, but everyone's like, you're insane.

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