Banking with Heart
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Zencastr, Telegram
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Episode
210
Guest & Project
Zach Marks/Jia
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Project Research
- Provides financing, meeting users where they are
- When you pay back loan, you get a JIA rewards token, which paves the way to you getting a JIA governance token
- invest@jia.xyz - for accredited investors
Episode Questions
- As is customary here on the Bankless Africa podcast I would like to know your story, how did you find reason for web3, what drew you in and Ultimately made you stay? ✅
- What is financial inclusion anyways? ✅
- Does this access merely help those vendors keep doing what they do more securely or does it come with tools? ✅
- Jia provides blockchain-based loans, investments and ownership to businesses in every corner of the world.
- Talk to us about why this is a need? ✅
- Jia aims to be present in Asia, Africa and Latin America, is there a common thread? ✅
- How does getting financing on Jia work? ✅
- Maybe a controversial question but why you? Why Jia? Bigger names like Goldfinch have made a name for themselves doing a very similar thing, not to compare & I am a firm believer in that there is enough pie to go around, but what sets you apart? ✅
- Where exactly do you get your funds from? Are there raising periods that you go through? ✅
- You mentioned in another episode you did that for some of the people you work with, getting access to crypto or the blockchain is far from a priority, so how do you educate those that do gain a meagre interest in it on it’s whys and hows etc?
- How do you translate the jargon of the space such that it makes sense in a more practical sense? ✅
- The other ways of participating in the Jia ecosystem is to serve as a liquidity provider, borrower, partner or service provider
- What is the endgoal with these particular areas of participation
- 3 words on how you feel about the space