Shmulik Fishman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Argyle, the leading employment data platform that provides companies access to user-permissioned records in real-time.

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Mr. Irrelevant

In 2022, the 49ers selected Brock Purdy as the 262nd pick in the NFL draft as their third-string quarterback. For the uninitiated, that’s dead last. Mr. Purdy will earn $870,000 for the 2023 season, making him the lowest-paid quarterback in the NFL. Compare that with household names like Joe Burrow ($55M), Patrick Mahomes ($53M), and […]

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Mr. Irrelevant

Your Phone Number Is Your Password

164M workers are employed by 18M employers that use over 5.7K payroll processors in the United States alone. Each year, businesses spend over $11B to access the data within this network. And here is the kicker – Morgan Stanley estimates that nearly 72% of this income data is verified manually. Think of the last time […]

Market
Your Phone Number Is Your Password

Disarticulating CRAs

The 1960s was the decade of the Beatles, the civil rights movement, and the digitization of consumer finance. Banks discovered that they could move their records to computer terminals to slash administrative costs and make more money. It was a smash success. New revenue streams emerged, and banks began selling their own customers’ data on […]

Market
Disarticulating CRAs

Reports

In the before times, copying documents required placing a sheet of carbon between the paper used for writing and the one used for copying. The carbon would transfer the ink between the two pages. From handwritten notes to typewriters and now emails, “Cc” is used to convey the process of making a carbon copy of […]

Design
Reports

Warning: This Is Harder Than It Looks

our teams get frustrated with themselves and each other over a statistical fact outside of anyone’s control: almost every company that starts fails. Why? We run out of money before turning a profit.

Teamwork
Warning: This Is Harder Than It Looks

The Office, A Love Letter

I didn’t go to 315 Park at 7AM daily because it was fun. The executive team at adap.tv liked it, and working beside them got me ahead. It worked. I took control of revenue forecasting for the CFO because I did what everyone else said was impossible – produce daily forecasts in 2013. The company […]

Teamwork
The Office, A Love Letter