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Nico Jones

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

If you're not getting that KiwiSaver contribution from the government, you are missing a 25% return that you are leaving on the table.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

Now for some quick did you know,

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

You know, some of you would never even heard of this before, right?

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

But some of you may have heard me talking about it on Instagram, but the team at Fejo have already done over half a million dollars of roundups.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

So, you know, you think, oh, 50 cents, I can get coffee, whatever.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

This is how money works, right?

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

Things snowball and you get thousands of customers and things start to add up pretty quick.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

So they are at just over $500,000 of roundups already.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

So that's $500,000 more sitting in KiwiSaver balances, compounding over time than what would have been in there if they didn't build this technology.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

And they're getting started.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

They are warming up.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

2,600 active users.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

and over 155,000 roundup transactions made so far.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

This is built on top of open banking, which we often hear about.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

And it's going to be fascinating to see how quickly this grows, where they can take it, what they build out, how they innovate, and how people use the technology, and then what the customers demand of the business to do to innovate as well.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

Because just like anything, you know, once you do something and get it working, people think, oh, maybe I could have a crack at that, maybe.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

So, you know, I'm sure they'll face some competition at some stage as well.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

But anyway, let's go on the bloody journey.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

Let's see what the team at Fijoa can build out.

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MM 312 - I Invested $50k Into This Kiwi Start Up

Stay tuned.