Mercury on Dwarkesh Podcast

As the podcast has grown, I've had to deal with more and more operational overhead. Take paying bills. In the past, contractors would just email me their invoices. Every few weeks, I'd dig through my inbox, create a folder with all the bills, and manually pay each one. At this point, I just give everybody an email address that goes straight to Mercury, which is my banking platform. Whenever anybody sends an invoice to that address, Mercury automatically downloads it, scans it, and extracts all the relevant information — things like the contractor name, address, payment amount, invoice number, and due date — and then uses all of this to create a draft payment. Mercury then stores a list of these drafts for me to review. I just go through this list and double check that I've been billed correctly. I don't have to track anything or enter any information myself. Mercury does all the fundamental things for your business extremely well, and it puts them all in one place. If you want to learn more, go to mercury.com. Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column NA, members FDIC.