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Why Apple’s New Bank Will Increase Mortgage Rates; Will Apple Do Mortgages Too?

Apple just launched a high-yield savings account, offering 4.15%, and $60 billion in deposits drained from three major U.S. banking institutions yesterday alone, per this tweet. There has been a […]Read More

Why You Can’t Get Yesterday’s Rate, Stock Price, or Bitcoin Price

My Angry Phone Call With Jeff Bezos! I recently called up Jeff Bezos last week and that he sell me Amazon stock for $6 per share because that was the […]Read More

Great Incentives VS. Incentives Gone Wrong (& Cobras Too)

INCENTIVES ARE EVERYTHING/INCENTIVES GONE WRONG ARE FASCINATING! Great incentives create great outcomes. But unfortunately, humans are astonishingly bad at establishing incentives – a point investor, entrepreneur, and writer, Sahil Bloom […]Read More

Learning From Amazon’s Many Failures; Failing To Succeed?

We try various initiatives all the time at JVM – and often fail spectacularly. A few things that come to mind are a team competition we set up in 2012 […]Read More

Leverage Your Database Before Amazon Does; Amazon Teams Up With Realogy

Most readers have probably heard this already but Amazon is teaming up with Realogy to match homebuyers with real estate agents through a program called TurnKey. This is a huge […]Read More

Only One In Five Willing To Apply for a Mortgage Online

We recently spent $26,000 on a new “point of sale” platform (Blend) to make it even easier for our borrowers to apply online. This was a lot for us as […]Read More