Vrinda Gupta

Chris and the Shimmer team are incredibly impressive - excited for this new feature launch!

Congrats to the entire Shimmer team for expanding access to their ADHD product! It's been exciting to watch this product evolve and truly be designed to center its users.

Hi everyone! We’re Vrinda + Mark, two payments experts (Visa & PayPal) on a mission to close gender-based financial gaps - more below. I developed the Chase Sapphire Reserve at Visa, and was rejected (!) because I lacked credit history due to heavy debit usage. Turns out, 70% of women’s spend is primarily on debit like mine was (Visa data). ❓The Problem: The financial world was designed to...

This is so wholesome! Healthy mix of optimism and grit.

Love a 10 min walk, fresh air really helps!

LoFi Beats! Anything with words is too distracting.

I try to set two-week goals - that's usually long enough to make meaningful progress, but not so long that plans (inevitably) change!

+1 to talking to users, nothing beats user validation of the problem. In my case, I personally experienced the problem that my startup is solving. I was rejected from the credit card that I helped build at Visa - the Chase Sapphire Reserve! Personal resonance with the problem meant that I could deeply empathize with users, and dogfood my own product.

This is so awesome, congrats Ivella team!

Awesome cause and team!

Hi! Vrinda here, co-founder at Sequin along with @mark_thomas. Thanks to @mwseibel for hunting us! Sequin was born out of my personal experience being rejected from the credit card I helped develop at Visa, the Chase Sapphire Reserve. As a young woman, I lacked credit history simply because I was never taught how to build credit. Unfortunately, I wasn't alone (young women are 2x as likely to...