The Capital Stack John Waupsh of Nerve on Launching a NeoBank and Finding Product-Market Fit
John Waupsh is co-founder and CEO of Nerve. Nerve is the creator’s banking app with FDIC-insured business debt, savings, and other money-management tools designed for their business challenges. Nerve also offers public APIs, that, among other benefits, enable low-cost and instant payments for companies serving the creator economy.
Prior to founding Nerve, John spent 15 years leading product management, R&D and user experience at Kasasa, a fintech company serving more than 800 banks and credit unions and millions of consumers nationwide. John is a keynote speaker, a board member of IFSG (https://IFSG.io), founder of two record labels discovering and releasing lost music, and a fintech consultant to several banks and credit unions. His book, Bankruption: How Community Banking Can Survive Fintech, is available on Amazon. He enjoys spending time with his kids in his hometown of Austin.
Host, David Paul, interviewed John Waupsh about the Fintech market and the development of online banking and apps which is disrupting community banking and credit unions.
What You’ll Learn:
- What are neobanks?
- Development of providing banking services online and apps
- Need for the book “Bankruption” which discusses the disruption of community banking and reveals what community banks are doing successfully or unsuccessfully
- Evolution of community
- Who are you going to target?
- The massive opportunity to serve customers and companies in ways that have never been served before
- John Waupsh’s transition from Kasasa to Nerve
Favorite Quote:
“Community is no longer defined by hills, rivers, railroad tracks.” - John Waupsh
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