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Saturday 9 May 2026 · 17:00 · OnlyExit

Rare Chance to Meet Joe Salesky: the Founder Who Built Mobile Banking Before the

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Fireside chat on why every fintech is becoming a media company, and every media company a fintech.

Description: MrBeast acquired a fintech. Robinhood bought a media company. Cash App runs a film festival.

Every neobank ships a podcast.

Every creator wants a card.

This is not a trend. It is the next decade of consumer finance.

Join us at Bar Moxy in South Lake Union for an on-stage conversation between Joe Salesky and Ankur Tyagi on why the line between fintech and media is collapsing, and what gets built on the other side.

Joe is the founder of Recon Analytics and ex founder of ClairMail, the company that pioneered mobile banking and was acquired by Fiserv. He held the original patent for web conferencing through Pixion, before WebEx existed. He was CEO of CRMNEXT, serving over one billion accounts globally. Today he leads Al research at Recon Analytics, where his work on user-driven Al adoption is being cited in the Wall Street Journal.

Ankur and Max are the founders and GP of OnlyExit, a Seattle accelerator and fund focused on generational collisions between experienced operators and Al-native builders.

Ankur previously founded Spaces Financial, an Al-native fintech in the rewards category.

What we will get into:

  1. Why banks tried merchant-funded rewards in 2010 and failed, and what is different now
  2. The MrBeast playbook: when distribution becomes the actual product
  3. Why 30% of paying Al users churn every year, and what that means for every consumer fintech
  4. What the next generation of card products looks like when Chase and Amex cannot move fast enough

Drinks. Real conversation. Limited capacity. Saturday, May 9th

Bar Moxy, South Lake Union, Seattle Free. Limited seats. Seattle.

When
Saturday 9 May 2026 17:00
Where
The Moxy 1016 Republican St, Seattle, WA, Seattle, WA
Organizer
OnlyExit
Price
City
Seattle us
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