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Podcast: Wharton FinTech Podcast
Episode: Jimmy Chen, Founder & CEO of Propel -- Making America's Safety Net More User-Friendly
Description: Gabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Jimmy Chen, CEO of Propel, a software company dedicated to helping low-income Americans improve their financial health. Propel’s mobile app provides Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, benefits users with the ability to check their benefit balance -- which was only previously available over a 1-800 number, and more recently offers users a checking account and debit card.
In this episode we discuss:
- Propel’s app which today has 5 million active users
- Propel’s vision to become a one-stop-shop to manage government benefits and other income, side-by-side
- The ways in which...