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Ricky Levina

Ricky Levina

Co-Founder & CEO of Taxfyle, a digital tax preparation platform connecting individuals and businesses with licensed CPAs.

Aug 5, 2026

10:11
What trends are exciting you the most in
10:13
fintech? Nowadays, not much.
10:20
You know, even though we've, you know, all our old machine learning APIs and OCR APIs are all now agentic driven, right? And you have to.
10:29
And I would say that the tech world, you know, is not as exciting as it probably was in 2015, you know, because I feel like a lot of the capital market has moved just, you know, into NVIDIA essentially.
10:43
You know, technology with a small t, you know, so these are not the Googles of the world, but, you know, entrepreneurs like myself are essentially blocked from the traditional seed rounds and A rounds and B rounds and seed rounds AC before they go IPA, right? So, IPO, excuse me.
11:01
I think that that will come back, obviously, like anything.
11:07
Infrastructure is demanding the most amount of dollars right now, and you have to be tripling or quadrupling in order for the big VCs that are writing bigger checks to – take an interest in you, which is obviously a very high bar, right? So that's blocking out a lot of the entrepreneurial spirit.
12:15
What's your biggest challenge now?

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