Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Grain Cofounder and COO Carl Memnon (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What is your competition in this?

Carl Memnon: The way we see it and by what’s reflected in our customer base, our primary competitors are the traditional credit cards. Those are our competitors. That’s because the product functions exactly like a credit card in terms of reporting and a revolving line. But there’s no product that’s exactly like Grain.

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Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Grain.

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Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

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Sramana Mitra: You mentioned earlier that the Indian startup boom has happened in two cities – Bangalore and Delhi NCR. We’ve had a lot of success in Chennai as well. Some of the bigger successes came out of Chennai. What are you seeing in other places?

We are seeing companies coming out of Chandigarh and many other places. That’s part of the vision of One Million by One Million – to enable not only all corners of India but all corners of the world. We have companies from Tanzania. We have companies from Chandigarh. I’m from Calcutta, so I’ve always had a soft corner for Calcutta. It is a different India. It is a different world. How is that impacting the startup ecosystem?

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Sramana Mitra: If you look around, what are some open problems that you would point new entrepreneurs towards?

Jan-Philipp Mohr: There are a lot of other sensory technologies which are exciting and could add a lot of value. We have a very big lab in Nashville where we try out a lot of things. It’s a very green field. In my opinion, there is still a lot of room for improvement when it comes to distributed computing, especially when you run multiple models and when you want to embed models in chips. There are still physical limitations in these hardware environments.