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In this conversation, we chat with Trevor Marshall, The Chief Technology Officer at Current, a leading U.S. financial technology company serving Americans working to create a better future for themselves. A graduate of Columbia University with degrees in math and computer science, Trevor worked on automating trading strategies at Morgan Stanley and built applications on distributed ledger technology before creating the foundation for Current.
In 2015, he began building the Current Core, Current’s proprietary banking technology, which provides stability, faster money and cost savings that are passed onto customers, and allows Current to provide experiences that cannot exist on traditional banking infrastructures.
More specifically, we touch on cryptography, bitcoin arbitrage trading strategies, Web3, Dollar Ledgering, ACH transactions, Influencer marketing, and so so much more!
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Sneak Peek:
Trevor Marshall:
It gets a little bit to the demographics, but our customers are very young. Something that we've watched very closely is what percentage of our users are we their first bank account? That percentage was surprisingly, and is always continually surprisingly high. It's around 40% of our customers have never had a bank. There's a couple of reasons for that, but the biggest reason is because they're fairly young. I think that's mostly a credit to the fact that our marketing strategy, the thing that has worked best for us has been our influencer strategy. We have a couple of very large partnerships, MrBeast, who's probably the largest YouTuber in the US. I think he's number one or number two globally on YouTube, and many other.
I think we've sponsored certainly close to, if not over…
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