The new financial OS from Squads: building FinOps on stablecoin rails
Phil Jacobson joins Pirates Parley to break down Altitude, the Squads team's new product, recorded 15 minutes after their fundraise announcement. Phil joined Squads full-time at the beginning of January. He spent just under two years as VP of operations at Tensor, was an angel investor in the company before that, and is now leading commercial work at Squads. They cover: - $18 million raise and what it will fund (team, product, growth) - Why Altitude is a financial operating system, not a bank - The functionality split between Squads (tokens and programs) and Altitude (financial operations) - Non-custodial multi-sig architecture and nested smart accounts - Default 2-of-4 user signers with account-level 3-of-5- Privy and Turnkey integrations for pass keys and multi-email backups - Altitude Rewards yield via Bridge, backed one-to-one by T-bills at BlackRock and Fidelity, T+1 withdrawal - ACH, Swift, SEPA, Wire and QuickBooks integration in a single stack
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