{"id":5940,"date":"2023-06-11T13:29:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T20:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=5940"},"modified":"2023-06-11T15:57:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T22:57:53","slug":"founders-parade-vivi-friedgut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2023\/06\/11\/founders-parade-vivi-friedgut\/","title":{"rendered":"Founders Parade &#8211; Vivi Friedgut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Venture: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackbullion.com\/\">Blackbullion<\/a> is a London based for-profit edtech startup aiming to equip students with necessary financial skills for their transition to higher education and beyond. They offer a digital platform to simplify how to approach financial literacy, from an educational programme covering 80 financial subjects to integrating that knowledge with fintech-based funds application and payments all within one platform. Their customer community is driven through partnerships with higher education institutions, hosting events, webinars and other community activities to connect with their target audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blackbullion: the Financial Wellbeing Platform for Universities &amp; Colleges\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p-KomLdJ22M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bio: <\/strong>Vivi Friedgut completed an economics and marketing degree from the University of New South Wales in Australia in the late 90\u2019s and spent nearly a decade in financial services as a private banker and business development manager prior to launching Blackbuillion. She is currently an advisory group member of Edtech UK and still holds the title of CEO at this venture. Friedgut has noted in a few interviews that prior to 2008, her knowledge and skillset for financial literacy had little room in the education market, but afterwards she found unrest in the sector opened the door for her venture to start as a lecture circuit, before ultimately becoming a digital platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My Thoughts: <\/strong>I wondered about this venture and the decision to be a for-profit venture because in my experience there are several not-for-profit resources for students in this space. An interesting quote Friedgut had mentioned was \u201cwhen you\u2019re a business that gets paid for your services, it means that you are outstanding because if you\u2019re not, people won\u2019t pay for it \u2013 and the money makes it very transparent\u201d (Hogan, 2021, para. 2). The partnership model with institutions not only bodes well for their scalability, but it\u2019s also enabled them to choose partnerships that align with the values of the company, which Freidgut has mentioned can be problematic coming from a fintech background. Their rapid growth makes it seem that they are bound to expand beyond the three countries they\u2019ve hosted partnerships in (UK, Australia and New Zealand). I\u2019m interested to see how they maintain their company values in this process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Resources<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackbullion.com\/\">https:\/\/www.blackbullion.com\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/fintechmagazine.com\/financial-services-finserv\/blackbullion-ceo-vivi-friedgut-talks-finserve-and-diversity\">https:\/\/fintechmagazine.com\/financial-services-finserv\/blackbullion-ceo-vivi-friedgut-talks-finserve-and-diversity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepienews.com\/pie-chat\/vivi-friedgut-blackbullion\/\">https:\/\/thepienews.com\/pie-chat\/vivi-friedgut-blackbullion\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UChJk3SdnLdSKg1EJixQ880g\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UChJk3SdnLdSKg1EJixQ880g<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture: Blackbullion is a London based for-profit edtech startup aiming to equip students with necessary financial skills for their transition to higher education and beyond.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2023\/06\/11\/founders-parade-vivi-friedgut\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Founders Parade &#8211; Vivi Friedgut<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":92218,"featured_media":5942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-founders-parade","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5950,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940\/revisions\/5950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}