Michael Rihani

@MichaelRihani

Senior Director of Product @Nubank. Ex-Tesla, Pay, Coinbase, Block.

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Joined August 2008

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Michael Rihani
@MichaelRihani
Sep 25, 2025
Thrilled to share that I’ve joined @nubank (NYSE: NU) as Head of Crypto. Nubank is one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world with over 123M customers, more than 60% of Brazilian adults as customers, a $75B+ market cap, and 80%+ of its growth comes from
Michael Rihani
@MichaelRihani
Aug 20
Elon quietly stacking sats…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Aug 19
One sat at a time
Michael Rihani
@MichaelRihani
Aug 19
The @nubank AI Core team has spent the last 2 years building the foundation, now they’re scaling NuFormer, our in-house foundation model for financial behavior. It’s already powering credit models across Brazil and Mexico, expanding access to customers, and rolling out to more
Rohan Ramanath
@rohanramanath
Aug 14
Two slides from $NU Q2'26 earnings that I've waited two years to see. AI at Nubank was never a feature. It's the next structural layer of the business. Congratulations to everyone who put AI at the core of the Nubank growth flywheel.
Michael Rihani
@MichaelRihani
Aug 16
I walk 50% more steps, lost weight, and think more clearly now. Join the club for free at twodayclub.com
Natural Philosophy
@Naturalphilosy
Aug 14
Søren Kierkegaard on the Importance of Walking “Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk
Michael Rihani
@MichaelRihani
Jul 24
Elon’s ability to forecast (and invent) the future is remarkable.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Aug 14, 2020
The rate of improvement from original GPT to GPT-3 is impressive. If this rate of improvement continues, GPT-5 or 6 could be indistinguishable from the smartest humans. Just my opinion, not an endorsement. I left OpenAI 2 to 3 years ago. Am a neutral outsider at this point.