Around two years ago, Victor Cardenas and Kevin Bai — college dropouts from Stanford University and the University of Waterloo, respectively — built a fintech platform called Slash that lets users create shareable virtual cards to split recurring expenses. Slash quickly became popular with teenagers because its virtual cards were debit-based, available to people 13 or older and didn’t limit spending based on credit history.
In the subsequent months, Cardenas and Bai say that they saw an opportunity to got after a larger market: young, commerce-focused entrepreneurs.
“The goal is for Slash’s suite of products to be so robust that it gives people who otherwise wouldn’t have taken the leap toward self-employment the confidence to work for themselves,” Cardenas told TechCrunch in an email interview. “Slash’s go...
