With @BiltRewards, you can earn points for #travel, build your #credit and get a path to #homeownership when you pay your monthly rent expense. We talk with Founder & CEO Ankur Jain on #NYSEFloorTalk.
Rent taking up close to half of peoples’ incomes, says Bilt Rewards CEO Ankur Jain
Bilt Rewards CEO Ankur Jain joins CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ to break down how his company allows renters to put their monthly rent bills on credit cards as a way to earn points.
Bilt Rewards CEO Ankur Jain joins Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde to discuss their latest funding round quadrupling its valuation to $1.5 billion, and how its loyalty program and credit card converting rent payments into points works. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Kairos CEO on new way for consumers to pay rent with credit cards
Fintech company Kairos announced on Tuesday the launch of a new loyalty program and credit card that offer points on rent payments, plus the option to redeem them for travel, fitness and even a down payment on a home.
This Founder Built a Way to Reward You for Paying Rent
Alex Lieberman chats with Ankur Jain, (@ankurjain) Founder and CEO of Bilt Rewards, a loyalty program that helps you earn points on rent. They discuss Ankur’s early upbringing, catching the entrepreneurial bug, and how he applied the airline loyalty progra...
The Secret To Building a Billion-Dollar Company with Bilt Rewards CEO & Founder
Today I’m interviewing Ankur Jain, the CEO & founder of Bilt Rewards, the first-ever rewards program along with a credit card that lets you earn points on rent without any transaction fees or charges. He fought relentlessly to change regulations to be ...
The Credit Card That REWARDS You For Paying Your Rent
In this episode Matt and Quiana sit down with Bilt Rewards CEO Ankur Jain. Imagine having a credit card that rewards you for paying rent, from dining, traveling, to even helping close the homeownership gap Bilt is a wonderful concept.
Joe talks about America’s housing problem with Ankur Jain, the founder and CEO of Bilt Rewards, a startup that helps renters build credit and earn points on rent payments.
Episode 77: Interview with Bilt Founder and CEO Ankur Jain
In this episode of Mintel Little Conversation, host Andrew Davidson sits down with entrepreneur and investor Ankur Jain to discuss his latest project—an innovative, new loyalty program and co-branded credit card called Bilt Rewards, aimed at renters.
Why is Rent So Expensive? Ankur Jain is Disrupting + Rebuilding the System
Ankur Jain is a 31-year old entrepreneur who left Silicon Valley for a clear purpose- to create companies that solve problems affecting us everyday like healthcare, student loans, rent, housing affordability, child and home care.
How This Entrepreneur Developed Partnerships to Help Solve a Big Problem for Consumers
Kairos founder Ankur Jain enlisted a variety of other businesses to launch Bilt, a startup that helps people earn loyalty points when they pay their rent.
Meet Ankur Jain, The Under 30 Founder Tackling Some Of The Biggest Challenges Facing The Millennial Generation—Like Rent Relief Amid The Pandemic
As Covid-19 spread like wildfire in mid-March, forcing the U.S. economy to shut down, unemployment hit a record 14.7%. Suddenly, millions of Americans were faced with the realization that they may not be able to afford rent. Ankur Jain, founder and CEO of ...
Inside Bilt Rewards, a credit card and loyalty program for renters
There are a lot of difficulties with renting right now, and as far as logistics go, just getting the payment to the landlord can still be an issue. While some landlords and rental companies have gotten onboard with online payments, many still insist on rec...
This New Credit Card Can Help You Buy A Home. But Creating It Was Nearly Impossible.
Bilt is a loyalty program and credit card designed to help people towards home ownership. But to make it work, this entrepreneur had to fail repeatedly.
We Asked a Successful Entrepreneur 20 Questions About Making Money
Millennials tend to get a bad rap when it comes to money. You've heard the tired, old lines about avocado toast that conveniently ignore factors like stagnant wages, a rising costs of living, and an unprecedented student debt crisis.
Can tech entrepreneurs like Ankur Jain make money helping people with down payments and baby food?
Jain, a twenty-eight-year-old entrepreneur who, as much as anyone, reflects tech’s recent drift toward a new form of social self-awareness...
While Jain was in college, at the Wharton School, the financial press called him “possibly the world’s best-connected 21-year-old.” At twenty-six, he sold a company to Tinder, whose product he went on to lead.
And those companies have a mission: Solve the problems that really need solving...
In this way, Ankur Jain, Kairos’ Founder and Co-CEO, is thinking far more Warren Buffett than Jack Dorsey. And in a short amount of time, his focus on the hole in the marketplace rather than the pitch deck has produced results. Today there is more than $6.5 billion in companies that were founded by Kairos entrepreneurs.
And it’s been launching a new startup every few months...
Kairos is a new $25-million social entrepreneurship investment fund with an odd and expansive list of supporters.
Soon after getting on the phone with Fast Company, Jain promises access to Mehmet Oz, Bobbi Brown, and Vicente Fox. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, Verizon president Ronan Dunne, and ex-Greece prime minister George Papandreou are waiting in the wings, if needed...