Social Leverage Letter | Issue #9

On the difference between fast risk and slow risk and why one is more overlooked in investing and in life.

Ep.07: Fintech investor and entrepreneur Howard Lindzon (StickTwits, Panic Podcast) says it’s the best market ever — a “13” on a scale of 1 to 10.

Secfi helps startup employees understand, maximize and unlock the value of their stock options. We’ve worked with employees at 80% of US-based unicorns to provide education, tax planning tools and financing to help them on their journey from joining their company to IPO. We also partner with executive teams and founders at high-growth startups to provide their employees with a better understanding of their equity package and enable them to buy their options without paying out of pocket. Secfi is growing rapidly. Employees and executives use our online platform to better understand, and finance the exercising of, their equity — growing from $3bn in 2019 to $10bn in 2020. We’re now on our way to more than $30bn of equity in 2021. We have offices in Amsterdam and San Francisco and are looking to double the team by the end of this year. Working for a startup is like building a plane already flying in the air. It’s messy, it’s exciting, and you are constantly learning. Our core val

The Role For our Engineering team in Amsterdam we are looking for an experienced and talented Frontend Engineer, who feels right at home in a fast-paced scale-up environment. As a member of one of our product teams, you work on implementing new features in a specific product domain. Your team is multidisciplinary and responsible for the full-stack delivery of each feature. You thrive on working closely together with designers, backend- and frontend-engineers and product specialists. You are opinionated on best practices and own decisions made by the team as if they are your own. Proactively looking for things to improve and then driving this change feels natural to you. Ideally, you have broad interests in cross cutting concerns - be it security, devops or architecture, for example - and want to be part of shaping the company’s future in these areas of expertise.

The Team: We are at a critical inflection point with our product and looking for a customer-obsessed product marketer. You’ll be joining a small and experienced marketing team of digital, growth, content, brand, and product marketing professionals with experience in both B2C and B2B strategies. We’re nimble, goal-oriented, often nerd out on finance jokes, and are just a hint of quirky! We have a tight-knit culture, supporting each set of marketing goals as a team, and bring our authentic selves to work. We look forward to bringing on our newest teammate! About the Role: Reporting to the Director of Product Marketing, the Product Marketing Manager for Sales and Engagement will own Secfi’s sales enablement strategy and the execution of all associated client-facing sales content, including pitch decks, fact sheets, collateral and internal positioning for Secfi’s education products. In this role, you will be the subject matter expert for our financing products, our clients, and our sale