William Hockey is a fintech infrastructure founder who co-founded Plaid and later co-founded Column, a nationally chartered bank built without venture capital. William Hockey's Twitter Score is 68 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #14,261 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
William Hockey co-founded Plaid, the financial data connectivity platform whose crypto data connectivity features are part of its Investments product. Plaid drew significant acquisition interest when Visa agreed to acquire it for $5.3 billion in 2020, though that deal was terminated in 2021 following a DOJ antitrust lawsuit. William Hockey subsequently co-founded Column, which acquired the nationally chartered bank NorCal for around $50 million and was developed outside the traditional venture capital model. William Hockey also serves on the board of Scale AI.
William Hockey has published 626 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 57 accounts a total of 116 times.
William Hockey's portfolio includes Goldsky and Portal.
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