Catching up with Qwikwire at Impacthub.PH

Catching up with Qwikwire at Impacthub.PH

The Qwikwire team headed over to Manila’s Impacthub, where they were hosting a series on overcoming failures as co-founders. Among the speakers that night was Johan Janssens (Co-founder of Joomla). CoinTelegraph caught up with Qwikwire and its leader/CEO/Founder Ray Rufundo at Impacthub’s bar, where we shared a few beers. Apparently, we’d caught up with Ray and the team just in time. They’d just launched their service, which is a quick and easy to use bill-pay service. There’s no accounts to set up; There’s no-third party integration that you have to try to sync to. You just log in and set....


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