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Paul Kesserwani

8 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 3, 2025 by Paul Kesserwani · across every show →

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Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Kesserwani says bank fee negotiation is only Cushion's initial product wedge
“I don't plan on being in this bank fees product for the whole company. This is just our wedge. That's working very, very well for us.”
Paul Kesserwani Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 14:44 #51 This Bot Can Fight Your ATM Fees
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
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Cushion has 16,000 waitlisted, 3,000 users, and fought $300K in fees
“We've built up a wait list of over 16,000 people. We've onboarded 3000 users. For those 3000 users, for only three banks and across only the last three months, 1.2 million dollars in fees that we found. So we fought 300,000 dollars of them. We've waived a 100,…”
Paul Kesserwani Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 7:06 #51 This Bot Can Fight Your ATM Fees
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Kesserwani: Competitor Albert cannot take direct account actions
“No, they can't. They cannot take actions within the user's account.”
Paul Kesserwani Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 11:22 #51 This Bot Can Fight Your ATM Fees
Mar 3, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Kesserwani says Cushion has over half its funding round committed
“Over half the round committed from folks who want to participate. Like I said, I'm negotiating with one potential lead right now, but also talking to a few other lead funds.”
Paul Kesserwani Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 26:13 #51 This Bot Can Fight Your ATM Fees
Mar 3, 2025 negative
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Kesserwani: Two companies failed attempting automated fee negotiation as a feature
“And that's why two companies tried to do this and failed because they tried to build it as a feature.”
Paul Kesserwani Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 25:47 #51 This Bot Can Fight Your ATM Fees
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
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Kesserwani: Cushion secures fee refunds for 80% of users
“80% of the folks who we fought fees for have gotten money back in some capacity.”
Paul Kesserwani Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 5:28 #51 This Bot Can Fight Your ATM Fees
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
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Kesserwani: Cushion recovers 30 cents per disputed dollar
“For every dollar that we're fighting, we're getting 30 cents back right now, but we're being very aggressive because we're trying to train the model and figure out what works and what doesn't.”
Paul Kesserwani Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 5:32 #51 This Bot Can Fight Your ATM Fees
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Kesserwani seeks $2.3M to expand Cushion's bank integrations and product line
“So I'm here today raising 2.3 million dollars to grow Cushion By adding support for more banks, and building out our next set of products.”
Paul Kesserwani Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 2:31 #51 This Bot Can Fight Your ATM Fees
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