ACCESS Live @ Nvidia's nerd Super Bowl, poker takes over tech, and the future of AI banking
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Mar 20, 2026 
Immad Akhund, CEO of Mercury — building banking for startups and small businesses — chats about banking products, trust, and AI-enabled financial features. They explore NVIDIA’s GTC spectacle and poker’s role in tech culture. Conversations cover Mercury Insights, bank charters, fintech complexity, AI integrations, and how simple product design builds trust.
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Jensen Huang Turned GTC Into a Live Tech Spectacle
- Jensen Huang's unscripted, technical two-and-a-half-hour keynote made NVIDIA a live spectacle people wanted to attend in person.
- Alex Heath described Jensen as the LLM of NVIDIA, freewheeling acronyms and deep domain mastery that felt like a modern tech evangelist show.
Peanut Butter Became Mercury's Guerrilla Marketing
- Immad Akhund recounted Mercury's playful PB&J marketing where a product code name 'PB' became peanut butter jars and in-person sandwich deliveries.
- The stunt created a memorable brand moment and illustrated Mercury's preference for weird, high-variance marketing experiments.
Fintech Requires Deep Legacy Work And Scale
- Fintech is far harder than pure software because banks run on legacy systems, SFTP pipes and heavy regulations that create many exception cases.
- Immad said Mercury partnered with sponsor banks then scaled before applying for its own charter after reaching significant size.