55 - Shares: the story of building a social investment app

Harjas and Lucas discuss the story behind Shares, a social investment app.  Shares aims to connect users with their existing network and bridge the education gap in investing, by allowing them to communicate and share insights about their investment decisions within the app.  Harjas discusses how Shares was founded, the infrastructure that sits behind it and its European expansion plans.  

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About Harjas Singh

Harjas Singh has been building digital financial products and services used by millions of users for over 6 years. As Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Shares, he is responsible for Product Development, Growth and Expansion, where his first priority is the launch and continuous development of the mobile application. Most recently, Harjas spent two years leading the retail investing product at Revolut, a London-headquartered global fintech valued at $33 billion (July 15 2021 Reuters). Prior to this, he gained in-depth knowledge of building trading systems during his time at Deutsche Bank, where he spent four years as an engineer modernising the incumbent's technology. Harjas graduated in 2015 from Virginia Tech, majoring in Computer Science.