Kylie Jenner posted a tweet today asking if “does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore”, and it may have caused $SNAP to plummet $1B in market share in a matter of hours.

 I’ve mentioned this several times before on stage, and I still stand by it: The Kardashians have had a bigger impact on media than the Beatles.

The Kardashian effect is real, and it continues to grow. If they want to sell something, with one Instagram post or tweet, the product’s website almost always goes down. It doesn’t matter what they are selling.

The current U.S. administration is on a relentless path to deregulate many industries. It’s causing a big impact on many industries .. but deregulation of the financial services industry will likely create the largest impact.. and soon.

There are robo-investment websites like Wealthfront and Betterment that allow you to automatically manage your finances and make smarter financial decisions without much effort. …

In addition to wealth management, Fintech is creating seamless avenues for peer to peer payments, creating new uses for cryptocurrencies, and lowering the barriers to global commerce.

Big financial institutions like Bank of America and Barclays need to take a long look at acquiring these technology companies if they care about servicing the next generation of bankers.

Acquiring these companies and integrating them into big banks simply wasn’t feasible just a few years back due to stringent regulation, but now it’s possible and it has opened up major opportunities in this industry. The new era deregulation is going to put Fintech center stage

The reality is we want to watch the Super Bowl our way. We don’t care if it’s on NBC, ABC or CBS. We just want to watch the Super Bowl the way we watch our Netflix: On our Roku, Fire Stick, Apple Tv, iPhone & iPad. And we don’t want to have Cable to be able to watch it.

As our TV’s become more smart, and soon to be interactive and swipeable our TV’s home screen is going to go from this:

In 2007 the NFL had 11 of the top 50 shows on television.

In 2017 the NFL had 37 of the top 50 shows on television

The decline in TV ratings is solely due to the decline linear TV viewing

Advertisers really have nowhere else to go to capture the scale that the NFL delivers every week and despite political issues, concussions, etc this league isn’t going anywhere.