James Deacon
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Revenue Strategy & Enablement @mercury
San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2022
Our relationship to money is deeply personal... Shaped by the people who raised us and the environment we grew up in, our economic fingerprint is uniquely our own. When I moved to the States I was coming from a country (đŹđ§) where fintechs already had a large footprint, where
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Alexey and team have been cookingâŚ
The more time I spend on Mercury Personal, the more obvious it feels: so much of banking is still catching up to how people actually live. Weâve spent the past few months rethinking the basics and refining the details - and the product has changed a lot since we announced the
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Mercury Personal is now live after a year in waitlist. The core insight: personal finances are actually complex, but every bank treats them like they're simple. You have multiple people who need different levels of access. You're moving money between business and personal
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founders: whatâs a small win youâre proud of? hit reply⌠we might send you a celebration cake. đ
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answers on a postcard
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A tasteful addition for any coffee table or bookshelf
You can now scoop up our gorgeous print edition of Meridian. ⨠A special issue for founders who know the details make the difference. đ Grab your magazine â https://t.co/SiIbO2ZA9l
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It's all too easy in our careers to focus on what's next... We get blinkered by the title, the raise, the next opportunity. Laser focused on what's next, we overlook all that it's taken to get to where we are now, today. As with so many things in life, when we slow down and
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A really cool and thoughtfully designed tool!
Today, @mercury is launching an MCP to help entrepreneurs and founders bring finance data to the tools they're working in Mercury MCP is great at 3 tasks: 1) check balances / download statements 2) pull transactions to graph or analyze spend 3) understand card/recipient details
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https://t.co/6gJYzTJabZ *Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by partner banks; Members FDIC. The IO Card is issued by Patriot Bank, Member FDIC, pursuant to a license from MastercardÂŽ.
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BREAKING NEWS âď¸ Founders discover caffeine reimbursement. On Wednesday, November 19th, coffeeâs on Mercury. Pay with your Mercury IO Credit Card at one of the 22 participating coffeeshops (check out...
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Today only... use your Mercury IO Card* at a participating SF spot today and coffeeâs on us. Itâs our way of saying thank you for building with us. âď¸ âď¸ âď¸ For all the details of this offer and a map of the participating coffee shops, check out the Partiful link below đ
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sf, something is brewing... mark your calendars for november 19th â https://t.co/qXlUr15Qgn
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I'm going to meet so many unicorns next week đŚ
we know the good founder coffee spots in SF⌠so we you made a custom google maps list đ and if you're a mercury cardmember, coffee at any of these spots is on us next week â https://t.co/qXlUr15Qgn
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Turns out SFâs founders have a type âď¸ If youâve launched a startup in the city, odds are youâve launched a few ideas from one of these spots Revealing⌠the top 5 local coffee shops where founders caffeinate, according to Mercury card spend data ⤾ď¸
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Happy Friday
Today @FortuneMagazine ran a piece on @Mercury celebrating: * 3 years of profitability * $650m in annualized revenue * 40% year on year active customer growth * Building a long term + sustainable + trusted service for our customers Thanks @agarfinks for the write up.
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Tax filling just got even easier with @mercury You can now prepare and file your 1099s directly from Mercury - Identify which recipients need a 1099 - Request and track missing W-9s - And come Jan 2026, you can file your federal and state forms straight from Mercury
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A wonderful read!
Anjan Katta (@AnjanKatta) wakes up to Kirtan, not alarms⌠and heâs building a computer that feels the same The founder of @daylightco is rethinking what âhealthy computingâ could look like, and itâs a screen that calms instead of drains On Meridian: how Daylight is
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Weird thing no one tells you about raising money I knew salespeople would have fundraising alerts on and start selling me stuff, but I didn't realize how much free stuff from banks you get when you have $3M. I've gotten offered: - an EightSleep and NYC billboard by 4 separate
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