Sramana Mitra: These hundreds of thousands of customers that you have through the channels, do you directly touch them or do you deliver your software through those channels? Levi King: We do directly touch them, but they may or may not know that because it can be white-labelled or a co-brand. If it’s a co-brand,
Levi King offers a unique perspective into small business lending in this TLFT interview. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Nav. Levi King: We started the business about six years ago. My business partner is an attorney. We offer free credit and financial education to small businesses in
Sramana Mitra: What is your business model? Are you acquiring customers on behalf of banks or are you acquiring customers on behalf of yourselves? Luvleen Sidhu: We are acquiring customers on behalf of ourselves.We have two strategies. The first is a direct to consumer one that is pursued through PR, marketing and word of mouth.
This interview is an interesting window into how financial technology is addressing specific niches within the banking sector. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and BankMobile. Luvleen Sidhu: I’m the Co-Founder and President of BankMobile. BankMobile is the largest and fastest-growing digital bank that serves the underserved and low middle income
Yossi Peretz: Blockchain is much more secure at the moment, but it has a lot to evolve. Even in the basic tools for developers, the concept itself is very advanced but the tools are just at the beginning. That’s part of the approach of sharing knowledge. Once people continuously share knowledge, this field will definitely
Sramana Mitra: What are you learning? What are people interested in answering? Yossi Peretz: It depends on the crowd. There’s no definite answer. Each country has its own trend. India is more about cricket. In general, sports is very popular. Since the core of our users are from the crypto community, definitely crypto-economics and crypto
Sramana Mitra: The Blockchain is facilitating the transaction for both. The people who are offering the bounty are from the company that is looking for the prediction. The people who are making the predictions are consumers who want to participate in that kind of aprediction situation. Yossi Peretz: Correct. Blockchain is only the infrastructure. It
We’re seeing a plethora of blockchain applications and in the TLFT series, will be bringing you more case studies to show you how entrepreneurs are thinking about the technology. Stox is one such that mediates crowdsourced predictions. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Stox. Yossi Peretz: I’m the CEO of