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Today's entrepreneur wants to get you your money back.

Unlike other consumer finance companies out there that are just giving you advice,

we're actually doing the work.

Paul Kesserwani is here raising money for his company,

Cushion, a bot that fights bank and credit card fees for you.

And that might sound simple, but Paul says he's using machine learning to train his

bot so that it's better than anything else out there. Can he prove to investors

that he's got something special on his hands? Here's who Paul will have to convince.

Phil Nadeau.

As a serial entrepreneur, Phil built companies that sold for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Now he manages one of the largest syndicates on Angel List.

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