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Show Notes
09:59 – A Message from Founder and CEO Kurt Rathmann - ScaleFactor 
12:06 – Fintech Startup That Raised $100 Million From Investors Bessemer And Coatue Is Abruptly Shutting Down - Forbes
14:05 – ScaleFactor is shutting down after coronavirus craters sales – Austin Business Journal
16:58 – ScaleFactor Announces “2.020” Vision, Including Plans to Build Marketplace for On-Demand Financial Solutions – Business Wire
19:45 – Our early ScaleFactor speculations - Episode 70

20:36 – The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch - 20VC: Raising $105m in Just 13 Months Over 3 Separate Rounds, The 5 Core Ways VCs Can Add Value & How Founders Can and Should Fully Leverage Their Cap Table with Kurt Rathmann, Founder & CEO @ ScaleFactor – The Twenty Minute VC 
29:16 – ScaleFactor: Our Response to the News - Acuity 
32:18 – Wirecard AG’s former chief executive officer was detained by Munich prosecutors – Accounting Today 
33:42 – Wirecard filed for bankruptcy this week – Wall Street Journal Backstory: Wirecard’s suspect accounting practices revealed – Financial Times

34:00 – Softbank sues E&Y over Wirecard - CNBC
38:36 – Nasdaq to suspend trading of Luckin Coffee shares from Monday - Reuters
39:12 – GE KPMG Auditor Swap: General Electric and KPMG Officially Call It Quits – Going Concern
40:38 – Intuit changes tech development focus, lays off 715 – Accounting Today 
44:45 ­– IRS sent $1.4B in stimulus checks to dead people, audit finds – Accounting Today
47:42 ­– PPP recipients can apply early for loan forgiveness, SBA says - Journal of Accountancy 
48:31 – SBA exempted lawmakers, federal officials from ethics rules in $660 billion loan program – Washington Post
52:39 – Mastercard to purchase open-banking company Finicity for $825 million – MarketWatch 
55:40 – Last week's Square discussion – Episode 180

56:35 – Are Intuit and Square dating? - Square
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