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John Taylor Garner and the price of a free trip
A points-funded holiday sent a Wall Street trader into travel technology. Now the Odynn founder is building the machinery that lets banks turn rewards balances into somewhere worth going.
Ken Book Keeps Turning Financial Obsessions Into Products
A Goldman internship taught him what he did not want. A credit-card hobby revealed what other people did. Ken Book’s founder story is really a lesson in noticing the questions that keep coming back.
Tikue Anazodo
Tikue Anazodo is the co-founder and CEO of Kudos, the AI-powered smart wallet that automatically picks the best credit card for every purchase and layers on extra rewards. Born in Lagos and trained at Columbia, he built consumer payment products at Google and Affirm before launching Kudos in 2021 with Ahmad Ismail. What started as a browser extension is now a 'self-driving wallet' with over 200,000 users, $200M+ in annualized checkout volume, and $17.2M raised from QED, Patron, SV Angel, Max Levchin, and The Points Guy founder Brian Kelly.