Folding into Financial Freedom with Will Reeves

My guest today is Will Reeves, Found and CEO of Fold. Fold is a rewards app where users can earn bitcoin back on every purchase. Fold offers bitcoin cashback via its Visa debit card and mobile application. Fold enables its customers to earn bitcoin on everything they do: spending, saving and investing. Cardholders can win up to 100% back on every purchase, or even a whole bitcoin. Fold is excited to open access to its bitcoin cashback debit card to all U.S. residents. Instead of offering points or airline miles typically found in most card programs, Fold provides bitcoin rewards through a gamified experience that emphasizes healthy financial habits. Fold Cardholders can earn variable rewards by spinning a rewards wheel after each qualifying purchase, like earning 100% of their purchase back in bitcoin, or even winning a whole bitcoin, which ten users have done to date. The Fold app, now available on Android and iOS, allows shoppers to earn bitcoin rewards back (up to 20%) on credit card and lightning purchases when shopping at merchants like Amazon, Target, Starbucks, Uber, Airbnb, and more. Users can spend these rewards on their next purchase, save for later use, or withdraw to a personal wallet. Will is a well known tech entrepreneur with expertise in developing payments solutions. Prior to founding Fold, Will worked as Head of Payments at Thesis. He has also worked as a Venture Lead at A3Ventures and Co-founder of Membo. Of note, Will also was part of the early team that brought the Google Store to market, and he led the vision for the cult project, Lightning Pizza, the first real-world service using the bitcoin Lightning Network that allows customers to order Dominos Pizza anywhere in the U.S. with bitcoin. This interview is a masterclass for anyone interested in product design and user experience. Will and I discuss how Fold is making Bitcoin more approachable, why earning Bitcoin is the best way to accumulate Bitcoin, building on lightning, and much more. Will discusses how he thinks about product design and the importance of UI/UX design in providing world-class experience to the end-user. We discuss the various features of Fold and how a couple of users have even won whole 1 Bitcoin. We also discuss the importance of sovereign money and financial agency. We finish our discussion talking about the philosophy and community behind Bitcoin. There is an absolute wealth of knowledge in this conversation. please enjoy my conversation with Will Reeves.--Kava:Kava connects the world's largest cryptocurrencies, ecosystems and financial applications on DeFi’s most trusted, scalable and secure earning platform. Built to scale on the largest decentralized PoS network, Kava lets you mint stablecoins, lend, borrow, earn and swap safely and efficiently across the world’s biggest crypto assets with a simple and intuitive user experience and the full confidence of institutional-grade security and quality . To learn more visit https://untoldstories.link/kava __Ledn:Ledn provides financial products to help you unlock the power of digital assets. With a secure and easy-to-use platform, it’s the simplest way to earn interest, borrow, and trade your BTC and USDC. For maximum accountability, Ledn offers Proof of Reserves attestations to give you peace of mind while you make the most of your Bitcoin. Learn more at https://untoldstories.link/LEDN. ---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.