Johnny Reinsch is the co-founder and CEO of Qwil.co, an advance payment platform for freelancers. He discusses 2016 projected volume with Nathan Latka.
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“We should be pushing you know, eight figures, I would imagine.”
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Qwil claims a zero percent default rate on freelancer payment advances
“Currently zero.”
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Reinsch: In-office colocation is always preferable to remote engineering teams
“Well it's always better to have in my opinion, you know, every, the team all in one place.”
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Qwil generated low seven-figure transaction volume in its first year
“I would say transaction volume is in low seven figures for the first year. That's a little misleading cause we haven't been live for that whole year. So that's actually transaction volume over the course of a few months.”
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Between 25% and 50% of users accept Qwil's payment advances
“We find that somewhere between 25 to 50% of the advances that are offered or taken for various reasons.”
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Disclosure
Qwil uses instant credit underwriting instead of rejecting users upfront
“We actually don't turn anyone away. It's more of if we're able to make some of the earnings available in advance or not. And that, that all happens actually on the spot using our credit underwriting algorithm.”
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Qwil serves thousands of contractors across tens of paying platforms
“We're in the thousands on contractors. And we work with tens, not quite hundreds, but of companies and platforms that are sort of paying out these independent contractors.”
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