In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Kalpesh Kapadia, CEO and Founder of Deserve, a mobile-first credit card platform powering the future of credit cards.

Topics Discussed:

Kalpesh’s background as a mechanical engineer, his life in India in the 1980s, and his studies in the US
How his experiences as a foreign student in the US led Kalpesh to found the company that became Deserve
What’s different about credit cards like Deserve, that run entirely on the cloud
Why 99% of the credit cards still run on infrastructure from the 80s and 90s, and what problem this will be causing by 2025
Working as B2C versus B2B, getting a domain name, and crisis management

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