Reinventing the credit card as a Fintech super app

<p>with Siddharth Batra, Co-founder at X1 Card, about his experience in technology and software development. X1 is a FinTech company that has created a smart credit card and has become one of the top 100 credit cards in the US with a waitlist of 600,000 people. Together, they discuss how Sid has articulated his consumer product building learnings from his experience as head of engineering at Twitter to revolutionise the traditional credit card into a B2C financial super app. Touching on X1's growth strategy and how it is focused on a consumer product approach rather than traditional marketing techniques. This has allowed them to have a 10x better referral rate than traditional credit cards.</p><p> </p><p>MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION</p><p> </p><p>X1's website: https://bit.ly/3J9w404</p><p>Sid's Linkedin profile: https://bit.ly/3ywr6Wh</p><p> </p><p>Topics: Fintech, paytech, artificial intelligence, consumer, credit, b2c, pfm</p><p> </p><p>Companies: X1, Twitter,  Venmo, Apple, Robinhood</p><p> </p><p>ABOUT THE FINTECH BLUEPRINT</p><p> </p><p>🔥Subscribe to the Fintech Blueprint newsletter to stay at the forefront of Fintech and DeFi: https://bit.ly/3hyhlC2</p><p> </p><p>🤝 Partner with Fintech Blueprint through sponsorships: https://bit.ly/3UZllsV</p><p> </p><p>👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LexSokolin</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>TIMESTAMPS</p><p> </p><p>1’36”: Sid’s foundational experiences in technology & what laid the groundwork for his career</p><p> </p><p>8’49”: Using Stanford and network thereof as the launchpad to becoming a startup founder  </p><p> </p><p>11’52”: Joining Twitter and learning about consumer behaviour and consumer’s relationship with social media content</p><p> </p><p>15’43”: How building consumer products at Twitter formed the basis for the articulation towards Fintech</p><p> </p><p>17’13”: X1 - what it is, how it started, what is a smart card, what is the software that differentiates it from competitors and the volume growth since its inception</p><p> </p><p>25’38”: X1’s feature set, issuing ban