How Rain Turned Stablecoins Into Real-World Spend with Farooq Malik
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How Rain Turned Stablecoins Into Real-World Spend with Farooq Malik
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We trace Rain’s path from a small fundraising tool to global spend infrastructure, built through a crypto winter by shipping fast, staying lean, and solving real customer pains. Farooq Malik, CEO and Founder of Rain, shares lessons on timing, moats, and why the best financial technology disappears into the background.
• origin of Rain from a side project into spend rails
• first proof of concept and early customers’ pains
• surviving Terra and FTX with lean execution
• building a technology moat over vendor advantages
• simple mission framed without crypto jargon
• vision for invisible financial infrastructure
• founder advice on timing, team, and patience
• immigrant lens on identity and building a tribe
• stablecoins enabling access, speed, and new models
• global footprint across the US, LatAm, Caribbean, Asia, Africa
• rapid-fire favorites and closing links
Contact Bam Azizi: @bamazizimesh
Contact Farooq Malik: @rooqster