Junta Nakai spent 13 years on Wall Street before becoming the global head of financial services and sustainablity at Databricks. He offers three pieces of advice that the finance industry can learn from the tech industry.
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3 Pieces of Advice that Finance Can Learn from the Tech Industry
efinancialcareers | Junta Nakai | Nov 11, 2022
Junta Nakai spent 13 years on Wall Street before becoming the global head of financial services and sustainablity at Databricks. He offers three pieces of advice that the finance industry can learn from the tech industry.
- Reward failure: Silicon Valley is culturally designed to fail fast, while Wall Street is designed to never fail.
- While conservatism is important on Wall Street given risk and regulations, there are ample opportunities for 'newness' and innovation in finance.
- Many parts of Wall Street still operate in the same way they did ten years ago with little changes. That's especially true in areas like investment banking.
- Innovation is only bred out of an ability to try and test new things, and sometimes, fail.
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- Fine-tune incentives: Unlike Wall Street, compensation for revenue roles in Silicon Valley has few surprises.
- Target earning-levels are communicated in advance at the start of the year and are formulaic, with specific KPIs that drive behavior.
- I see three benefits of this for Wall Street: 1) less politics, 2) tailor individual incentives to solve targeted problems, and 3) separates alpha from beta - you know who is capable of hitting core KPIs instead of benefiting from rising tides of a particular asset class.
- Encourage candor: In tech, employees are empowered to speak up. No matter how junior they are. I’ve seen people freely question decisions, publically challenge executives and candidly provide feedback up and down the chain.
- Wall Street leaders need to better foster an environment where candor is encouraged and rewarded.
- There are 17,000+ innovative fintechs out there competing fiercely with incumbents right now. Candor can no longer be curated by politics nor silenced by hierarchy.
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