In episode sixteen of PitchIt: the fintech startups podcast we talk with Abound Co-Founder & CEO Trent Bigelow.

Abound helps the best businesses in the Independent Economy win by improving the financial security, wealth and wellness of self-employed Americans.

Trent and I dig deep into the larger trend of independent and gig workers, the complicated tax scenarios, working with ecosystem partners, raising capital and a whole lot more. We had a lot of fun and I hope you enjoy the show.

In this podcast you will learn:

• Trent's founder story
• Why independent workers have complicated tax scenarios
• If the right tools existed Trent and his co-founders would still be freelancing
• The difference between employment and non-employment income
• Abound view themselves as a real-time tax ledger that makes the banking stack much more valuable to independent workers
• How they went from 5 employees in 5 years to more than 20 in the last 2 years
• Trent and his co-founders need to be more intentional with decision making for a distributed team
• Objectives and key results, or OKRs drive the team
• Why early investors passed
• He recommends reading All the Devils Are Here, High Output Management and The 80/20 Manager.
• And more...

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Until next time.