CHRIS SLATER

I have been fortunate over the past 40 years to benefit from supportive family and friends, free education, and professional opportunities that enabled me to build a career. While I have worked hard, my success has been less about personal effort alone and more about challenging industry norms, creating a business that differentiated itself through technological vision, a commitment to delivering value for all stakeholders, and a culture that made work enjoyable. 

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Through that journey I have also seen how access to the right capital significantly enhances your probability of building long term success. My private investments through 53° is a way to apply the lessons of scaling a global FinTech business to support ambitious, socially minded entrepreneurs.

 

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