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Charlie Youakim

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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

So where the business started was we were partnering with e-commerce merchants, getting our product displayed on their website, helping them make the sale.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

Those types of products initially were like beauty cosmetics, fashion apparel,

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

supplements, you name it, across all the internet companies.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

If you look at the internet e-commerce companies, that's where Sezzle was and other BNPLs.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

But Sezzle's a little bit different than the rest of the competition.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

We started to go to what I call open loop products faster.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

And what I mean by that is we went direct to consumer and said, hey, you don't have to wait for us to find us at a website.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

You can sign up for Sezzle Premium.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

You can sign up for Sezzle Anywhere.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

We'll issue you a virtual card.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

And now you can go tap this card anywhere.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

And then what happened, Tom, when we started issuing these cards, we became more general purpose.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

You know, people are using us at Target.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

They're using us at Walmart.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

They're using us at Home Depot, Lowe's.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

Everywhere in their lives, probably where they're making something like $100 to $120 purchase, like, oh, I'll sizzle this one and split it up over my paycheck.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

And that's where we're seeing more and more purchase behavior is toward that just general purpose purchase.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

Well, I think one is we've got credit building.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

That's the tool in the tool belt that we really believe in.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Interview with Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim

So we've got young customers, mid to low income, and actually a good number that are new to credit completely.