Christophe Lassuyt
@christophel
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How did we turn Request.Finance into a B2B company with double-digit monthly growth, even during crypto winters? 🚀
TL;DR: a great, fully-remote TEAM, from 15 countries on 3 continents
And here are a few words (and beautiful pictures) to describe it 👉
🌏 We built a fully remote team since day 1 (back in 2020) - that means we hire the best people, no matter where they are.
Trust is key, and we build it through offsites where we meet - and connect.
🎢 All of us are team players who want to learn, and improve
Over the years, we have made things better for ourselves, each other, our clients (hopefully!), and our solutions (for sure).
😇 Our team thinks before acting - we build what our clients really need, not just what they ask for.
📢 We are direct and clear like a team - no abbreviations (almost) - and good documentation.
Trust and support are the foundation.
This works because of offsites, like the one we just had in Marrakech 🌞
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It's 2015, almost 10 years ago and at the time, I'm about to get traumatized
My co-founder and I are just starting as entrepreneurs
We are in an angel investor meetup. We need money...
At the time, we are building a remittance startup with better rates than all players
I am talking with an angel investor, he is amazed
UNTIL he asked "how do you do it?" "what is the underlying tech?"
We answer " Bitcoin as a backbone, it's efficient"
At the time, Bitcoin adoption is low, barely 500,000 people know of its potential value
And the mainstream media keep repeating:
"Bitcoin is evil"
This angel investment was important for us
We were entrepreneurs in their twenties
When the investor heard the word "Bitcoin", he stood up, mentioned "Bitcoin, this is bad stuff"
And he left
I wish him a happy 100,000 milestone 🥳 for the "evil" Bitcoin that was worth ~200 dollars at the time
We have been right.
The technology is key.
Around 600 million people have adopted crypto since then
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I’m delighted to announce that Request Finance has acquired Payso Lithuania to launch a new way to pay bills 🥳
The price tag is not $1.1B, but it’s game-changing nonetheless.
We are merging two exceptional products:
💱 Payso is a regulated VASP that grew 10x this year and has been helping businesses bridge payments between crypto and fiat.
💸 Request Finance provides an all-in-one finance solution for +3,000 hybrid businesses
💱 💸 👉 Together, Request Finance helps CFOs pay hundreds of bills in one click, regardless of the currencies and countries.
We are working towards mainstream adoption of blockchain, and it’s happening right now.
The tech is 50x cheaper, up to 2500x faster, and running 24/7.
Businesses must thrive, which is the job of the CFOs, COOs, and founders! 0 reply
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- Make and Improve audio: Use Audio tools (Descript, Lovo AI, Eleven Labs, Songburst AI, etc.) to help generate, edit, and enhance voice and music content. Lovo AI can help for voiceovers, Songburst for music, and Eleven Labs for realistic speech synthesis.
- Automate further: Use Automation tools (Make, Zapier, Bardeen, plus Swanblocks, or Otomato for blockchain & trading) to handle workflows across apps and platforms, reducing manual tasks. You actually orchestrate orchestration tools/AIs. For example, you can build a crypto trading bot without technical skills. 0 reply
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Get more productive with AI:
- Make videos: Use Video tools (Klap, InVideo, HeyGen, etc.) to create, edit, or summarize video content. You can sequence tasks, like for example generate content (Klap, HeyGen), edit and enhance it (Runway, InVideo), then apply final effects (Morphstudio).
- Present content: Use Presentation tools (Decktopus, Slides AI, Gamma AI, etc.) to create engaging and professional presentations quickly. Tools like Decktopus and Slides AI help with layout design and content structuring, while Gamma AI can generate interactive elements. Orchestrate between static and dynamic presentation formats. 0 reply
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A few AI tips to do better:
- Write: Use Writing tools (Jasper, Quillbot, HIX AI, Hemingwayapp, etc.) to help write professional, coherent text and improve grammar and clarity. Integrate multiple writing AIs to cover brainstorming, drafting, and editing. For example, Jasper for drafting, Quillbot for paraphrasing, and Textblaze for automation of snippets.
- Make the content better: Use copywriting tools (including but not limited to Grammarly, Rytr, Copy AI, and Writesonic) to speed up the content creation process for marketing, blogs, or ads. Combine tools for different writing needs (ad copy, long-form content, social posts) to make sure there is stylistic consistency. Use one AI for brainstorming and another for refining, for example. 0 reply
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To get better at AI, learn this:
- Synthetize content: Use Productivity AIs (Slack AI, Merlin, Notion AI, Adobe Sensei among others) to automate personal and work-related tasks. You can orchestrate them so that they become personal assistants (Merlin, Notion AI) that helps in daily workflows, and task prioritization. For example, just try to use AI to summarize 200 pages long financial statements in 10 bullet points.
- Create images/videos: Use Visual AIs (Fotor, DALL-E 3, Midjourney, etc.) to generate or enhance images based on specific instructions. Direct image AIs to generate creative visuals, while managing variations in style and format using multiple tools. Use some for detailed creation (DALL-E 3, Midjourney) and others for refinement (Fotor, Microsoft Designer). 0 reply
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Here are tips about how to orchestrate AI, for various, non exhaustive topics:
- Get better at prompting AIs: Use Prompts AIs (FlowGPT, Alicent AI, PromptBox, etc.) to generate creative prompts for content, brainstorming, or AI input. Create workflows for rapid experimentation and prompt testing.
- Learn more: Use Research AIs (Grok, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.) to gather, process, and analyze information quickly from various sources. You can coordinate them to split complex research tasks in various small ones. You can get them to summarize 40 pages pdfs, for example. Use specialized tools (like Abacus for data analysis) alongside generalized tools. 0 reply
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