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Privacy.com gives every merchant a card you can fire
One card number for every shop, a spending ceiling for every subscription. Privacy.com puts boundaries around online payments - and the machinery it built became a second business.
Lithic
Lithic is a New York-based fintech that gives developers programmable card issuing and money-movement infrastructure. Born out of consumer brand Privacy.com, the company builds the API rails that let other companies create, manage and process virtual and physical payment cards with minimal code. Today it powers debit, credit and prepaid card programs for fintechs like Mercury and Coinstar, processing more than $1 billion in annual volume.
Bo Jiang
Bo Jiang is the co-founder and CEO of Lithic, the New York card-issuing platform that started life as the consumer privacy tool Privacy.com. He and two childhood friends built the burn-after-use virtual card people loved, then discovered the real prize was the issuer-processor plumbing underneath it. When developers started reverse-engineering Privacy.com's API to issue their own cards, Jiang turned the back end into the product, rebranded to Lithic, and now sells programmable money movement to high-growth companies.