Julie is joined by Jillian Williams, Early Stage Investor at Cowboy Ventures to discuss:

- Jillian's FTT+ premium article that "Celebrated Juneteenth" (1:59)

- why previous attempts to specifically assist Black Americans via banking failed (4:36)

- issues w/underwriting to black people (9:50)

- types of common financial discrimination examples (16:55)

- will noticeable progress occur in the near future (19:35)

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Julie sits down with Billie Simmons, Co-Founder and COO of Daylight (challenger bank for the LGBTQ community) to discuss:

- what inspired Daylight (0:48)

- how Daylight is fixing the problem for the LGBTQ community (6:10)

- the Daylight community (9:50)

- Daylight's business model (13:26)

- Future expansion plans (15:54)

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Julie sits down with Andrew Brown, Founder and CEO of Check to discuss:

- what Check does (3:13)

- the complexity of payroll (5:35)

- pros and cons of how Check operates (7:47)

- why Andrew started another company (11:26)

- $35M funding round from Stripe (13:58)

- which fintech Andrew would invest in right now (17:55)

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Julie sits down with Dan Preston, Co-Founder and CEO of Metromile to discuss:

- what Metromile is (2:24)

- why they went public via SPAC (4:23)

- paying for insurance with cryptocurrency (10:39)

- the pandemic's effect on car ownership (13:13)

- additional insurance offerings (17:06)

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Julie sits down with Bo Jiang Co-Founder and CEO of Lithic (fka Privacy.com) to discuss:

- what Privacy.com does (2:20)

- adding a B2B component (5:01)

- Lithic's recent $43M funding round and why they rebranded (6:31)

- the future of Lithic (9:49)

- an example of a B2B client (16:21)

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Julie sits down for Part 4 of 4 of the Couple’s Finance series with Justin Howell, Co-Founder and CEO of Rize to discuss:

- the backstory of Rize and initially focusing on the Couple's Finance space (2:25)

- what made Justin passionate about personal finance (5:18)

- why Rize made the pivot from B2C to B2B (9:38)

- why should a fintech use Rize (14:10)

- what fintech needs to fix the couple's finance issue (16:21)

- the emotional factor of couple's finance (20:02)

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Julie sits down for Pt. 3 of the Couple’s Finance series with Aditi Shekar, Co-Founder of Zeta to discuss:

- what influenced Aditi to create Zeta (2:10)

- what Aditi learned from researching couple's finance (5:15)

- how Zeta differs from other fintech apps (12:12)

- the involvement of Aditi's husband (17:36)

- the biggest challenge to building Zeta (19:33)

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Julie sits down for Pt. 2 of the Couple’s Finance series with Maia Bittner, Founder of Pinch and FinTech Angel Investor, to discuss:

- Maia's Couple's Finance Situation (2:01)

- the struggles of couple's finance and fintech (13:43)

- 3 Guiding Principles that all fintech's should consider about couple's finance (19:09)

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Julie sits down for Pt. 1 of the Couple’s Finance series with Saira Rahman, VP of Finance at HM Bradley, to discuss:

- how Saira manages her money differently after getting a partner (4:00)

- budgeting and joint accounts (7:41)

- advice for couples who want to discuss their financials (11:04)

- your partner’s financial history (17:36)

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Julie sits down with CJ MacDonald, Founder/CEO of Step, to discuss:

- what does Step do? (2:15)

- collaborating with Celebrity Investors like Will Smith, Steph Curry, and Charli D'Amelio (5:09)

- working with a demographic that’s never had a bank account (6:42)

- how Step differs from other challenger banks (10:58)

- the effect on revenue due to the younger clientele (13:44)

- what Gen-Z wants from a bank (21:06)

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