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Jason Mikula on Muck Rack

Jason Mikula

Amsterdam, New York, San Francisco
As seen in: Fintech Business Podcast, Fintech Business Weekly, LinkedIn, Substack, The Fintech Blueprint (Podcast), The Financial Brand, beehiiv, The Defiant, The Mountain Times, 11:FS, Connecting the dots in FinTech
Covers:  Banking, fintech, consumer finance, lending, credit risk, technology, venture capital, startups, IPO, regulation, CFPB, FDIC, OCC
2-bit amateur wannabe reporter @ Fintech Biz Weekly | Fmr Goldman, Enova, Ret. Peace Corps Vol | Literally wrote the book on BaaS | Signal: mikulaja.01 | 🇳🇱
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Interview

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, I have

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Gmail, Twitter, LinkedIn, Substack, Excel (or Google Sheets), Hubspot

Who do you wish followed you?

Anyone from Crooked Media team (even though it's not really my beat!)

Why did you become a journalist?

Part-time journalist, part-time consultant

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

I did not :-/

When's the best time to pitch you?

Anytime; I write/publish on a weekly cadence (typically)

What's your favorite drink?

Coffee or Negroni

When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?

Playing with my puppy, cooking/eating, or reading.

Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?

Mainstream- NYT, WaPo, Economist, The Atlantic

What's the most common misperception about your beat?

Many folks in fintech, both operating in and writing about, tend to treat it as a vertical itself rather than specific business models.
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