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Podcast: How to Lend Money to Strangers
Episode: The service is the collateral, with Neel Juriasingani (Datacultr)
Description: "It was, at that time, a very crazy idea", Neel Juriasingani tells me. "A lot of people still look at us as those crazy guys. But coming from that tech mindset, we were forced to think about how tech could be built to solve these challenges".Over the last decade or so, lenders have invested a lot of time and money to turn the smartphone into an optimised account acquisition tool - you want to be where your customer is, after all. But the fact that their smartphones are where your customers are at, means we c...