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5 Year Frontier

#4 Personalized finance, what's brewing in crypto winter, new game economies, and the future of money w/ Finder co-founder Fred Schebesta.

Dec 5, 2023
27:25

The future of money and finance. We cover topics including AI’s role in hyper personalized finance, new products as a result of increased access to user data through Open Banking, what die hard developers are building during the crypto winter, and the intersection of gaming and economics.

Fred Schebesta, founder and Chairman of Finder, a comparison website helping consumers find the right financial products for them, from credit cards to home loads to health insurance. Started in Australia, Finder has expanded to the US, UK and beyond 10M users. Evolving to offer consumers a centralized place to manage all their finances. All this was achieved by Fred and his team without raising any outside capital, running a profitable business from day one. That was until Finders $30M 'seed’ round at half a billion dollar valuation more than a dozen years later! Fred is a prolific builder of technology, living at the far flung corners of the internet, and leading Finders innovation efforts. He has founded and invested in multiple projects in and around the financial world from exchanges to crypto to gaming. A best selling Amazon author and original thinker.

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