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 85 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #9,042 (top 5%) among 487,142 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 628 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 59 accounts a total of 118 times.
William Hockey's portfolio includes Goldsky and Portal.
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