Behind the Bell: GoFundMe
In this episode of Behind the Bell, GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan joined us at MarketSite in honor of Giving Tuesday and to celebrate the company’s work in helping people help each other.
Transcript:
You never know where your idea is going to go, and if you look at what our co-founders did, they started very small, they bootstrapped it and they hit on something that has changed millions of people's lives, and I think anyone has that potential.
Our mission is very simple, it is to help people help each other, and that drives every single thing that we do.
We focus extensively on making sure that our platform is trusted, is well known, is safe, and people feel secure in asking for help and that we help them be as successful as possible.
And so we're constantly thinking about what can we use in terms of design and technology at the cutting edge to introduce it to that very fundamental human activity of helping each other, what makes us social beings.
It's amazing to ring the bell, I mean, we're here representing 150 million fundraisers and donors at GoFundMe, and also thousands and thousands of nonprofits on this very special day, Giving Tuesday, and we hope that it helps generate more contributions to all of those organizations and campaigns.
