Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. I'm Chris Valens. In today's

program, I meet tech entrepreneur Tim Kudgan, who talks to us from his home in California.

My dog is trying to beat down my door. So if you wouldn't mind, I'm just going to let her out.

Sorry about that. Her timing is always impeccable. The programme has barely begun and already we've gone to the dogs.

Originally from a small village in the south of England,

Tim's worked for nearly three decades in the US tech sector.

It was meant to be for two years and it turned into 28 so far.

Just before the COVID pandemic hit in 2020, Tim became chief executive of crowdfunding website

GoFundMe, a platform that allows anyone to start a fundraiser online and ask for donations

from the public.

Medical expenses, for example, it can be going to college and looking for help from friends and family for books,

maybe tuition. It can be a new strip for your kids' sports team. GoFundMe says it's raised over

$30 billion US dollars for good causes since it started. But what's it like running this profit-making

company in the charity space, which fundraisers do well, and could

AI help people raise even more money? We don't change the authentic copy, but we help you make

that story into the best version of itself. That's all coming up on today's Business Daily.

If you've ever been asked to donate online to a charity, a sponsored event, or just a friend in need,

there's a good chance you'll have been sent a link to GoFundMe.

US crowdfunding platform GoFundMe has transformed the face of charitable giving.

Users can raise money for everything from sponsored runs to chemotherapy bills

with a number of campaigns going viral,

meaning that a specific cause catches the public imagination to such an extent

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