Meow CEO on Why Financial Services are a Commodity

About this episode

Brandon Arvanaghi, CEO of Meow, discusses how financial services can be treated as a commodity and the importance of reducing costs for better customer deals.

Financial services could be much lower cost and much more rewarding if we structurally attacked cost. Meow is attacking this head on. In the fifth interview from the B2B Fintech series, Brandon Arvanaghi, CEO of Meow, covers: Why financial services is a commodity How intentionally driving out cost creates a better deal for customers Operating an ultra-lean business on razor-thin margins The perfect timing of launching “max FDIC” coverage The further an executive is from the customer the worse the product is One of the GOAT pivots from selling DeFi yield to selling Treasuries

People in this episode

Host: Simon Taylor

Guest: Brandon Arvanaghi

Topics covered

• financial services
• cost reduction
• customer experience
• lean business
• B2B Fintech
• commoditization

Keywords

• financial services
• cost reduction
• lean business
• FDIC coverage
• DeFi
• Treasuries
• customer experience
• B2B Fintech

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meow, FDIC

Products: DeFi yield, Treasuries

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