Jimmy Chen, Founder & CEO of Propel -- Making America's Safety Net More User-Friendly

Published: Nov. 24, 2021, 6 a.m.

b"Gabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Jimmy Chen, CEO of Propel, a software company dedicated to helping low-income Americans improve their financial health. Propel\\u2019s mobile app provides Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, benefits users with the ability to check their benefit balance -- which was only previously available over a 1-800 number, and more recently offers users a checking account and debit card.\\n\\nIn this episode we discuss:\\n- Propel\\u2019s app which today has 5 million active users\\n- Propel\\u2019s vision to become a one-stop-shop to manage government benefits and other income, side-by-side\\n- The ways in which the company stood by their users during the pandemic\\n- All about the company\\u2019s culture\\n- And so much more!\\n\\nJimmy Chen\\nJimmy is the Founder and CEO of Propel. Previously, Jimmy was a Product Manager at Facebook, where he led product for Facebook Groups and prior to Facebook worked at LinkedIn. He is passionate about making America's safety net more user-friendly. He is a graduate of Stanford University, where he studied Symbolic Systems.\\n\\nPropel\\nPropel builds software dedicated to helping low-income Americans improve their financial health. For additional information on Propel, please visit joinpropel.com and www.joinproviders.com | Twitter: twitter.com/joinproviders\\n\\nFor more FinTech insights, follow us below:\\n\\nMedium: medium.com/wharton-fintech\\n\\nWFT Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech\\n\\nGabriela\\u2019s Twitter: twitter.com/byGabyC\\n\\nGabriela\\u2019s LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gcampoverde"