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Double Standards — Fortnite game praised for black-out, neobank Chime upsets 5 million customers
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Double Standards — Fortnite game praised for black-out, neobank Chime upsets 5 million customers

Double Standards — Fortnite game praised for black-out, neobank Chime upsets 5 million customers

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·Oct. 21, 2019·1 min read

Let’s look at the recent Fortnite blackout and compare it to neobank Chime’s embarassing down time, as well as explore the business model implication of what it means to be the social square where people hang out. Does Finance have such an equivalent? Maybe it is Venmo, crypto Twitter, or the credit unions. We also look at statistics behind influencer marketing, and how influencers have usurped the position of music labels. Perhaps banks should get ahead of this game too.

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