Kelly Mayes

The Head of Comms when an employee says, "I got invited on a podcast."

Two-thirds of consumers (67%) believe their financial institutions should reimburse them for money lost in a scam even when they personally authorized the transaction alloy.com/reports/2025-s… #fraud #scams

@khaslett 10/10 on both!

Come for the analysis, stay for the memes

And no matter the length of the drive, the directions would be approximately 10 pages long

Josh Wolfe on the power of storytelling “To believe a story and to have that shared belief - through language and customs - is extraordinarily powerful. It has been evolutionarily selected for.” Lux Capital's @wolfejosh talks with @loganbartlett on The @loganbartshow about why startup founders need to be able to tell a compelling a story. "It is the one technological device - the ability to conjure images in our minds and to believe them - that has persisted far beyond physical technology existed," Wolfe says.

Our State of Embedded Finance Report is live! We surveyed top US sponsor banks, and found that 80% of them find it challenging to meet embedded finance #compliance requirements. 🏦 Download the report for more insights: alloy.com/state-of-embed…

saw a PR guy post this on LinkedIn to other PR people. it is correct.

🥁…Coming this August: Alloy’s 2024 State of Embedded Finance Report 🏦 ⚡ We surveyed the top U.S. sponsor banks on the embedded finance compliance challenges they're facing & how they’re responding. Register here for priority access: alloy.com/embedded-finan…

There's nothing like seeing it in print.

They key to fraud prevention according to @lauraspiekerman? Future-proofing so that your controls evolve with the pace of fraud. Listen to the full podcast from @11FS for more insights from Laura & @clear_bank's Charles McManus on fraud & embedded finance. content.11fs.com/podcasts/866-i…

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the media landscape has changed. Please do not use all your PR budget on outsourced pitching and none of it on subscriptions. I recommend a $2000 a year minimum budget for subs. Why? — support media as it evolves — be in the info flow — speaking from experience, your outreach means more if you’re a supporter

I regret anything bad I've ever said about LinkedIn, it's actually a top tier shitposting platform

an AI scoop from me on a foggy SF thursday that i thought was friday: @huggingface founder clem delangue told me that he's hearing from *10 AI startups per week* who want to sell themselves to the company. also! HF bought an AI startup, @argilla_io! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

🚨 Just received a phone call from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office this afternoon. Officer reads off his badge number & proceeds to ask if this is [my name] located at [my address] w/ SSN# [reads last 4 of my social]. Fuck. Was walking through Costco as I took the call.

Tommy's grand theory of AI in SaaS: - if AI is one of the primary things the product advertises, it is probably bad - if the product happens to use AI but does not represent it as the primary benefit of the product, it's probably great

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heads-up to fintech PR people that everyone in the industry sends pitches out on tuesday mornings. if you want to stand out, hit inboxes on another day of the week.

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"Thanks to Vector, the origins of the personal computer cannot be separated from the story of women in technology. The personal computer has always belonged to all of us." fastcompany.com/3047428/how-tw…

@AlexH_Johnson it definitely can be, I've been really lucky to work with mostly great teams that understand the need to add value, not just sell. But it's also on us to help do that education internally. The saddest part though is there are just a lot fewer journalists than 15 years ago :(

@KellyMayes I honestly feel so bad for PR people. Most stupid pitches are the exec claiming a thing is news when it's not, in my limited experience. Also the pressure that execs put on PR to book them as podcast guests is just awful.

I almost never care about executive leadership changes at fintech companies. Very rarely is it, by itself, news. This is apparently not how PR folks look at it, judging by the pitches I receive.