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There are some people who are just irresponsible with money. They don't want to do better, they're fine with their conditions they're in. I'm just going to make it and I'm good with that. I wake up every day and watch the cars go by and cool. But there are some people who are working two and three jobs and they are truly struggling. It's not that they want this life. This is the life that they live and if they could find a better way, they had the resource, if they had the education, they would take advantage of it.
Nora Ali: That's an interesting distinction and more people are impacted by these predatory banking practices than we might even expect. You highlighted this in your TED Talk where you pointed out that being financially underserved doesn't necessarily equal being poor.
What did you mean by this? And why was this an important thing to mention? I know someone who might have 50K in their house, but they don't have a bank account. Just because I am unbanked or underbanked, does not always equate to me being poor. It might just be the fact that I don't trust banks.
It might be the fact that I have to drive 30 minutes to a bank and I want to be able to touch my money quicker, I want to see my money. For some reason, when you say underserved to any degree, people immediately equate that to being poor and that is actually not the case. Nora Ali: Your grandmother even had a distrust of banks, I understand?
That might be part of what drove you to start your company. Sheena Allen: Honestly, not just my grandmother. I mean sisters, aunts, uncles, but my paternal and my maternal grandparents both kept their money in their homes. I tell the story of my grandmother a lot because I was so, so close to her. But honestly it was my paternal and my maternal side, my paternal grandmother kept her money in her recliner. My maternal grandmother kept her money in her mattress, like under her bed.
So, it was actually both sides of my family who, the older generation especially, had a very much of a distrust for the banking system. Scott Rogowsky: What informed their worldview about banking and how did it trickle down into you and your community? Sheena Allen: I mean, for them, the distrust came down to just historical discrimination amongst Black and brown in the banking system.
So, that played a big, big role in it. Wanting to see cash the older generation. I think even now, they still keep money in their homes, even if they have a bank account because it's something about seeing that cash. It's like the bank says it's there, but I can't touch it. I don't see it, I need to know that it is mine. Scott Rogowsky: And even you mentioned your TED Talk, the availability of banks today in certain communities can be traced back to redlining practices, other discriminatory practices.
How are local communities and local economies still experiencing the effects of redlining and that discrimination? Sheena Allen: Yeah. I mean, redlining of course is outlawed now, quote unquote outlawed, but we still see it. For one, our financial system is outdated. If you go to some other countries, they are lightyears ahead of us when it comes to how they handle finances.
There's some changes that we're going to have to make overall but that's really hard to do as a capitalistic country, in a way that something's been done for so long, whether it's mortgages, or redlining, where people get loans, where people stay. So it's a uphill battle, but yeah, this is why CapWay exists. Nora Ali: Let's talk more about CapWay.
You're solving all the problems, Sheena. As you mentioned, it's a financial system, it's not just for the underserved and unbanked necessarily. You started this in , it launched in , during which you became the youngest female in America to own and operate a digital bank, which is an amazing thing to be able to say.
Walk us through exactly how CapWay works and why it's different from your traditional banking institutions. Sheena Allen: I had the idea for it, as you mentioned, in I did like two years of research and I didn't want to do research of let me go and Google things or let me look at stats from Harvard Review or Deloitte.
I literally got in my car and on planes. I wanted to hear people's stories. This goes into me saying how CapWay's different. I wanted to hear people's stories of why they felt the way they felt about the financial system, whether they was unbanked or not. I remember one story that stuck out to me, is always just embedded in my brain. I talk with a gentleman from the Bronx and he talked about going to cash his check at the check cashing place every Friday.
He would say, "I work, I get my check. I go home first and I get a gun and then I go to the check cashing place. If I'm just walking the streets of New York and somebody asks me for a dollar, I can easily be like, 'I don't have it. I don't have cash on me. So, the original idea of CapWay, as I mentioned, in , it was how do we build a digital bank for unbanked, underbanked, and I want to couple financial education with that?
I'm a true believer that one should not exist without the other. There's a lot of financial literacy tools out here but to me, if I give you information or education, but I don't give you resources to put the education to use, it's kind of like a lost cause, if you would say so.
The same, if it was opposite. If I give you a lot of money but I don't give you any information or resources, you're probably going to blow through that money, which we see happen all the time. So, that was the path we went in We actually were in stealth mode for about two years though, honestly.
Then we've honestly made a pivot. So I want to say that first. We've made a pivot where it's like, we're not a digital bank for unbanked or underbanked. We're now more of a finance system. My goal is now how do I create an inclusive financial system for people who are underserved? That can be a lot of things. That can be Gen Z, who has no clue what it's like to walk inside of a bank branch and probably never will. That can be women. We know the stats of women when it comes to money and our access and resources.
It can be unbanked. It can be someone who's a first gen immigrant. It can be a lot of things, when we say people who are underserved some degree or anyway, overlooked, misunderstood. It's a lot of different words we use. So, that was that transition we made between and , for looking at hardware and software payments, business account, personal accounts, not just digital banking.
How do we provide the resource to truly become financially healthy? Scott Rogowsky: What does that financial literacy look like on the CapWay app? Sheena Allen: Yeah, so we have a few different things. We have your general like financial articles.
We do a lot of videos. We interview people, they're giving information. We do infographics. We have this thing called facts and hacks, so very quick like factual information, but we also have a full financial education program called Phunds, PHUNDS. It's completely done in-house. We have an entire content team in-house and I wanted to make it where it was totally different from your quote unquote textbook type of financial literacy.
We worked really hard and we're still improving it, but I want to build an entire financial education system within CapWay and that's what Phunds is. But then we also, we have like little fun things, little engaging things, probably one of our most engaging pieces of content is we have a system called MoneyTalk where people can come and vote on different topics that we put up and you can either vote anonymously or you can comment and people have conversations in the comment section because what we found through a few different activities that we did, was we would put people in this room, like five people, 10 people in a room, and we would talk about money and no one really said anything.
They would answer a question maybe, but they wouldn't really say anything, but we would always put the one person in the room who would stand up and purposely say, "Hey, I've been broke or I've been to overdraft," or, "I know what it's like to do X, Y, Z.
So, MoneyTalk to us is more of a digital version of that to say, "You're not by yourself. So, if your lights was off, nobody would've known your lights was off except the people in your house. It was an unwritten rule and MoneyTalk is a way that we wanted to pull out of that. People can't help you if they don't know you're hurting.
Nora Ali: You're offering education, you're offering a safe space. Clearly you're offering banking services. You're trying to be the opposite of predatory. You're still a business, though. You have to make money. So, what is your revenue model at CapWay? Sheena Allen: We do the general things for any form of a bank, which is we make interchange. So, pretty much anytime someone swipes their CapWay debit card, we make money at CapWay. We also make money from our content through different ways, sponsored posts, there is a paid version of Phunds that we have.
So, there's different tiers and different ways we work with people within Phunds. Then there are some things that we have coming actually over the next few months and this year and down the road that would bring in other revenue streams. But I always tell people, we are here to help people, but to your point, we are a for-profit business and making money is part of how we stay alive. Nora Ali: You are VC-backed, so you have to make sure your investors feel comfortable with your growth.
Is that an extra layer of pressure where you feel like you have to be in hyper-drive and grow, grow, grow? Sheena Allen: Yeah, I won't lie. You have somebody else's money and you have to show how you're going to 10X that money, and you have to show how you're going to grow and how you're scaling and the month-to-month growth.
Yes, it is pressure. I always tell people, that's the beauty that I'm happy I learned from Sheena Allen Apps because I know the difference in being bootstrap and not having to answer to anybody versus being VC-backed and having to send out those monthly emails, investor updates, and raise capital and make sure you're making money and you're scaling.
So, it's definitely pressure because to me, I always say the CEO Well, three, you have the business that you're trying to run and make sure that the people who are consuming it, your customers, anyone who's using, looking at CapWay, is happy. Then you have your team that, one wrong decision by you means that X amount of people might not be able to pay their mortgage next month, that's pressure.
Then you have your stakeholders, your investors who are looking to get their money back times X, times 10, times 50, times So yes, I will be lying to say that there was not pressure. Scott Rogowsky: Sheena, you're feeling that pressure and I'm feeling the pressure from our advertisers. Time for a quick break, but more when we come back.
So, how do you think about building generational wealth now as a fintech entrepreneur? What do you think is essential for your clients and customers to know? Sheena Allen: So much. That's what I want to change, but there's resources and there's tools that have to be in place to make that change. That's what I want CapWay to be able to offer.
So whether that is, how do you invest in stock? I tell the story now that when my friends have baby showers now, if I had a friend or somebody had a baby shower 10 years ago, I probably bought Pampers and booties and the usual baby shower stuff. When my friends have baby showers, now I buy their kids stock. My thing to my friends is always is I'm going to buy the stock now and depending on what it is, I'm committed to at least buy one share every year for this child's birthday, but you have to match it.
You, your husband, your fam, somebody has to match the share that I'm going to put in every year for their birthday. So, it's things like that I do personally. I put out in CapWay how to invest in stock. Now, we're going to so metaverse, but hey, if that's going to potentially be a way for you to build generational wealth, let's talk about it. Of course, the everyday person now can invest in startups. We know a lot of people build generational wealth, especially on the coastal areas of New York and San Francisco's, California's from investing in startups.
It used to be where you have to be an accredited investor to do that, whereas now you can invest in startups through equity crowdfunding. So, there's so many different ways, real estate. I think there's so many ways that people can build generational wealth that a lot of it is, I always tell people, people just don't know.
They're just saying that I say often, you don't know what you don't know. So, it's really hard to go into an avenue of building generational wealth when you don't know what avenue to take and that's the resources and the information we put out at CapWay. Nora Ali: There are so many new avenues, new technologies, popping up that are supposedly going to democratize building wealth.
One of those things is obviously cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Do you think those sorts of technologies can be a way it help the underbanked and unbanked? Or is there still this issue of lack of access and education around that at this point? Sheena Allen: I think that cryptocurrencies, I think it works. I've seen it work. I've heard great stories of it working in places outside the US unfortunately.
I don't know if or when in it will be something that will truly change an entire generation or culture in the United States. I think maybe, I don't think it's going to be the next year or two though. Versus if you see what and why Jay Z, Jack Dorsey, and others are doing certain things with cryptocurrencies within Africa, across the different countries of Africa, it makes sense and we've seen it work, but I think based off of just how the financial system is set up in America, I don't know if we're around the corner that working for the underserved in America, but I do think cryptocurrencies have the opportunity to do that.
Nora Ali: This is maybe a little bit of a philosophical question, but we see these big banks, the incumbent institutions, obviously getting super into cryptocurrencies in the future of money, but still doesn't feel like they're focusing in on the underbanked or unbanked. What do you think is preventing them from creating offerings like CapWay, or having spin-offs that address the issues that you're are addressing? Is it because it's not lucrative enough? Why do you think they're not solving it and people like you are necessary still?
Sheena Allen: You hit this spot on. They think it's not lucrative. I've had investors who would say focusing on underserved, focusing on overlooked, I don't think that's a very lucrative space. Then I politely go and pull numbers. There's a reason that there are so many check cashing places and payday lenders. They're very lucrative. So, they're clearly making a lot of money. Our audience is also Gen Z because they are taking in that space of being overlooked, underserved, because they will not use the full service of traditional banking.
Their spending power, purchase power, is crazy. So, there's plenty of money in the space that we're in. But honestly, most won't admit it. Outside the fact they may think it's not lucrative. Most just actually don't understand it.
Nora Ali: Because they're in it. They're not exposed to it maybe? Sheena Allen: Yeah, most people have no clue. I've literally had investors who have asked me questions of, "Are that many people in America actually unbanked? I mean, there's pockets everywhere, but most people, they don't see it, whether they choose not to see it or their bubble allows them to not see it.
But it's there. She's a founder, entrepreneur and a Genius Guild. She had some stories about just being a Black woman in tech and talking to VCs, or talking to other people in this world and they have these blind spots like you're talking about. Has your personal experience been similar? Do you find that being who you are in this world, it adds challenges that you wouldn't otherwise have? Sheena Allen: Yeah, I don't dwell on it to be quite honest. I don't fall into a pity party about it.
However, I am realistic in saying that it is a huge issue. I will say even personally for myself, getting into this whole banking field and this finance field, I mean, think about it. I'm a Black woman with a Southern accent from Mississippi walking in and asking to try to raise money for a digital bank. I'm sure there's no one that looks like me, who talks like me, has walked in and asked for money for a digital bank. So, regardless if people want to admit it or not, investors invest in what they know and what they're comfortable with, whether that's the bro code, whether that's because we both went to Stanford, whether that's because I got an intro from my friend over here in firm X.
Whether they want to admit it or not, that's just the case. I think to some degree, we're all like that. I mean, I won't lie for myself. If I get a cold email, I'm probably going to ignore it for the most part. But if my friend says, "Hey, I'd like to intro you to person X. I'll take a look at it, or I'll talk to them. I always say, regardless if people want to admit it or not, however you look at the layers of America, Black women always fall last and it shows when we're trying to raise money.
It shows when we're trying to work to scale our companies, it shows across the board and it's not just us saying it, numbers show it, stats show it, data shows it. So, honestly though, I don't fall into the pity party of it. I do what I have to do to grow my company but it's there.
I understand that I have to be 10 times better, times better every single day. I understand that when I walk into a room, I got to have , people on my platform to get half of the money that somebody who has 5, people on their platform. I know that it's there. It happened to me today. I talked to an investor today, who I know their company might have invested in person X who has half of our traction and yet they'll give me the feedback of, "Oh, you are a little too early. We need to see more traction.
Let's see how well you can do, though, with our quiz, Business Casual quiz, it's Quizness Casual time. Sheena, you're going to be our contestant today. Working with Nora here, you can work together on this, today's quiz is all about the history of money and banking. Let's get into it. Are you ready, Sheena? Sheena Allen: I'm not, but let's do it.
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Annuities Overdraft charges You should weigh these factors when deciding how to invest, because they all increase the risk to you. Note Big-name investors, including Warren Buffett, sometimes invest in shares of a few select banks, even with the risks. Bank Stock Crisis or Distraction? Large reserves are significant for a healthy bank to maintain profits. That could wipe out a large portion of the book value and create huge losses for the bank and the investors.
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