Adam Nash

So I looked on the Fed data.

The baby boomers and silent generation control 62% of the wealth in the US, okay? So Adam Nash did this really interesting blog post.

where he said, let's take, let's pretend, and he put this into context.

Let's pretend everyone has the same exact financial life.

This week, I'm joined by Amethyst Martinez to talk about what happened when Amazon blocked Meta's Muse shopping agent and whether competing platforms could end up fragmenting agentic commerce before it really gets going.

Then I'll be speaking to Adam Nash, co-founder and CEO of Daffy and former CEO of Wealthfront, about bringing modern fintech infrastructure to charitable giving, why donating stocks can be so powerful and how AI agents could completely change the way we manage our financial lives.

Let's get into it.

First up, our story of the week.

Thanks, Amethyst.

And our guest this week actually takes us neatly into the next part of that agentic commerce conversation.

What happens when AI moves beyond giving us information and starts taking financial actions on our behalf? Adam Nash spent his career at the intersection of technology and consumer finance with roles at Apple, eBay, LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Wealthfront.

Today, he's the co-founder and CEO of Daffy, a platform designed to make donor-advised funds and charitable giving much more accessible.

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I am so thrilled to kick off a new year of ETL with Adam Nash.

And gang, if you can, uh, please keep your, please be quiet because any small conversations we can hear up here.

So even if you feel like you're whispering, we can hear you up here.

Um, but we asked Adam today to scope down a talk given the s- given the time and spirit of ETL.

So I, uh, and so I think Adam today is gonna be sharing some of his insights into product leadership.

So without further ado, please welcome Adam Nash.

[clapping] Thank you.

And so it kind of directly competed with LinkedIn.

And so I was in this conversation with Adam Nash, another well-known entrepreneur, product guy in the Valley.

And he's super sweet, super nice.

I was pitching him what we were doing and why we were doing it.