Kalpesh Kapadia, CEO and Founder of Deserve: Building the Future of Credit Cards

Episode notes

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Kalpesh Kapadia , CEO and Founder of Deserve , a mobile-first credit card platform powering the future of credit cards. Topics Discussed: Kalpesh’s background as a mechanical engineer, his life in India in the 1980s, and his studies in the US How his experiences as a foreign student in the US led Kalpesh to found the company that became Deserve What’s different about credit cards like Deserve, that run entirely on the cloud Why 99% of the credit cards still run on infrastructure from the 80s and 90s, and what problem this will be causing by 2025 Working as B2C versus B2B, getting a domain name, and crisis management

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