Welcome to Xchange Revolution. Saving money and getting the best deal is in the forefront of everyone's mind right now. So In this episode Ludwina Dautovic, Founder and CEO of The Room Xchange, is talking to Fred Schebesta, CEO and co-founder of Finder.com. Fred is an entrepreneur with a vision to compare everything and empower people to improve their lives. So much so that he co-founded Finder.com in 2009, a platform that enables you to compare prices on products and services. We hope this episodes inspires you to compare and save a little more and help you to change the way you live.

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In this episode we discuss:

• 2.30 - How Finder got started
• 2.50 - Fred Schebesta made the AFR 2019 Young Rich List
• 3.50 - Core purpose of Finder.com
• 5.44 - Only a small percentage of Australian's look closely at their finances
• 7.48 - Covid has motivated people to look more closely at the finances
• 9.50 - Covid will bring innovation and change the working economy
• 13.17 - How Finder.com can save you money
• 17.22 - Finder's new e-commerce feature
• 20.13 - What Fred is doing to change the way he lives

About Fred Schebesta
Fred Schebesta is an award-winning business leader, best known for co-founding one of the world’s leading comparison websites, Finder.com. He is a serial entrepreneur, author, media commentator, mentor and active member of the startup, crypto and small business communities. Fred ranks 22nd on the 2019 Australian Financial Review Young Rich List, worth $193 million.

Fred is now leading Finder’s venture capital arm, Finder Ventures, which launched in 2018 and with it, launching HiveEx.com, a cryptocurrency brokerage.

His entrepreneurial journey started well before Finder.com. At just 22 – while still at university – Fred, together with his business partner and school friend Frank Restuccia, created Freestyle Media. They grew the business into a successful digital marketing agency that sold to a publicly listed company in 2007. Their next venture was finder.com in Australia, which exploded into the comparison market in 2009 – one of the most highly competitive internet categories. Finder.com was born out of a simple concept: to educate people and directly compare student credit cards. The magic sauce was leveraging all the proven and best practice digital marketing strategies they used to sell to their clients.

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