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To: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation®gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Talk?
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 13:39:04 +0000
Huge huge storms and flights just took longer to land sorry - United doesn't even have wifi!
Next steps
--finish up pitch deck
--raise money
--make sure company and governance work
--Deciding which parts can be done now and which can be done next
--Building the Product or deciding on the MVP
Today have technical teams all day discussing tech. Free 3-4pm if you can talk?
On Jun 21, 2015, at 7:59 AM, jeffrey E. leevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
I set aside time yesterday, what are the next steps in any of these
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 3:22 PM, > wrote:
Starting to get a lot more momentum
Found a tech cofounder to write and manager coding and tech side (former Google coder)
Need someone to discuss hard stuff related to banking and money movements - evolved since we discussed
churches as banks
Now more consolidated but disruptive
In between peer to peer and institutional lending
Basically occurred to me that I should just make digital what was already happening socially all over Africa
(that We helped grow w Billg's money)
Then realized that same concept also applied for churches and in countries w traditional leaders
Want to do a comms + lockbox app working across all phones that turns leaders into banks - built in credit
taters and also sources of resource collection. Super transparent and leaders want to be leaders so they will
compete
Formalizes and upgrades what slumdwellers have been doing for years and improves on my former concept
of metafinance
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Stuck on a few things but know there are solutions since it works in real world
Everyone wants a solution that isn't linked to a telco (your money gets trapped w telco) but still transaction
sizes as individuals too small to care but if you aggregate at level of leader and make them a bank....
Leaders as lockbox bankers - goes to scale almost immediately based on how many ppl they lead - esp w
churches
Make the transactions free between leaders and communities - and write code so the phones and comms app
works off grid W lousy old phones so only leaders need smartphones (eventually they all will have)
So then you are huge on grid/off grid comms network and biggest leader-to-peer lending network that is
connected by nodes (leaders)
--how to connect the leaders
--how to get not just community savings in to the leaders by better borrowing capacity for the savers through
that leader (leader makes money from loans too...)
--how to get across country boundaries to do remittances
In terms of venture partners
alibaba has no Africa interest yet but maybe could convince to help w lending side and "own" that part
-- MasterCard is globally trying to grow in Africa be their interest is being able to transfer govt payments to
poorest (and eventually credit, though not now) so they could help grow the lockbox wallet
-- definitely going to bring in the slumdwellers as a partner in some way be they will scale this and be
primary users and protect it and there are millions of them - could try to find a way to get them to invest into
growing the borrowing pool that way it is their own savings / resources
Facebook and others trying to grow chat apps only as the "on ramp" to Internet. They provide "free" wifi
while using Facebook. That seems annoying but actually you do need some wifi sometimes but not all the
time. Dealing just w leaders gets around that be they usually have access. And writing the code to work off
grid for local comms or comms to leaders is really cool
Anyway I've saved up 50k and started working on this. Have written some code and my cofounder is terrific
and he's trying too.
Need and want to start
Will you help me think? The big companies wanting to talk to me but I've not said anything specific other
than that I'm thinking about it - given my experience with these massive social networks and across Africa I
have a tiny bit of credibility but am running out of time
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