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Nico Jones

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

So with that said, there's the transparency piece, but I'm still going to give it to you straight of what I think about it and also probably help you understand why I kicked some money into this because I could invest it into a thousand different things as well if I wanted to, but I chose to put money and a decent amount of money into this.

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

So in simple terms, what is Feejo?

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

Well, it rounds up your everyday spending and pushes the spare change into your KiwiSaver.

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Now,

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My first thing when I looked at this was like, oh, okay, that's epic.

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But could it go into my Sharesies account?

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Could it go into my Generate Thematic Fund or my Global Fund or not?

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Nah, just KiwiSaver.

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At this stage, I'm like, huh, at this stage, I like those words.

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I kind of think the limitation with this is people will go, oh, it's just KiwiSaver.

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But really, with anything, you start somewhere and then you innovate from there.

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So just as an example, I don't know if they'll do this.

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And this is where I can't just be like, hey, guys, I put in a small amount of money and do a funding round.

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You should build out all my cool ideas.

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But

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How sick would it be if you could round up your transactions and then that roundup piece goes and clears down your mortgage slightly faster?

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So you might have a monthly summary of, say, $30 by the end of the month, and that's cleared down your mortgage.

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

And then you can go in and see, you're keying your data of what's your mortgage value, what's your interest rates, what's the term.

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what's your monthly repayment, it could basically run a calculation for you and update itself of how much faster you're paying off your mortgage.

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I started getting jazzed up about that.