Letter
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Letter was a California-based neobank founded by Matt DeLoach and Drew Wilson and backed by Y Combinator. It offered banking and a financial platform made exclusively for high net-worth individuals, with customizable steel debit cards for family members and staff, multiple checking accounts, charity donations, and exclusive investment and lending opportunities, with accounts FDIC insured up to $250,000.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Launch
Launched in October 2020 with a waitlist, positioning itself as a challenger bank for the wealthy; raised a total of $1.8 million from Y Combinator, Alumni Ventures and others.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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