#55 Speak to your customers before you build with Trent Bigelow from Abound.

Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore FinTech and the founders that power it.  I’m your host Mike Scott and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital, an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups. In today's show I’m joined by Trent Bigelow, co-founder and CEO of Abound. We’ll be talking about his journey building a startup that aims to make independent workers more financially secure.__________________________________Trent is an impressive founder that is set on solving a real problem and one that he himself experienced.He showed promise early on when he was an intern at HP. He proposed, organized, and led the HP Student Innovation Center - while he was still in high school.He then went on to found his first startup which was the world's first online multi-account email client… although they started out thinking that they would be competing with Facebook and MySpace to build a better social network.Trent then became the Business Development Director at Chiral Software. He also worked as a freelance UX researcher and then did some time as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Venrock.This all led up to his current focus which is as the co-founder and CEO of Abound. Since 2017, Trent has led the team to help build the world that independent workers want to work in. They are doing this through a set of API’s that make it easy to embed benefits for independent workers in an easy and compliant way.The Abound team is around 20 strong and growing. They have raised just under $7m in seed rounds, and are definitely a company to watch.__________________________________Today’s episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.Working with us to accelerate your FinTech or Blockchain product you get access to deeply skilled and experienced designers and developers that have been building products for a very long time.You get the benefit of a studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.To get in touch with one of our principals head over to www.nona.digital  to book a consultation directly.__________________________________Thanks for listening to the show.  If you’d like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website - www.nona.digital I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey. Connect with Trent or Abound. Connect with Mike or Nona. Follow Nona Digital: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube 

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