Stephen Wakeling – Founder and CEO of Phobio
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Rodio – communication from the center out to the edge of your organization so your teams can delight customers and deliver results.
Safetrade – a flexible, omni-channel trade-in platform for retailers that revolutionizes the way consumers and businesses upgrade to the latest technology.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies Hoyts to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:27.1 | Hello everyone and welcome to Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm Juliet Lamar. |
| 0:32.1 | We have with us today Stephen Wakeling. He is the founder and CEO at FO. |
| 0:38.0 | Welcome Stephen. Well, thank you for having me. Yes, of course. I think you're taking the time to join us. |
| 0:44.0 | Give us an idea of what 5BO is and what you guys do there. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, FOBO is an anti-sophore services company. |
| 0:55.0 | So we do a couple of different things. |
| 0:58.0 | Most people probably won't know about Fovio, |
| 1:01.0 | but many of your listeners may have interacted with some of our services. |
| 1:05.9 | Our flagship service is a B2B software called Safe Trade that is essentially all of the back end software and operations and |
| 1:16.1 | logistics for many of the trade-in programs that you might have seen in |
| 1:20.9 | like electronics or wireless stores. |
| 1:23.0 | So if you go into like a Verizon store |
| 1:24.5 | into an Apple store, you have an opportunity to trade in your old device, |
| 1:28.7 | whether it be your old iPhone or your old smartphone |
| 1:31.9 | or your old laptop for instant store credit on a new purchase. |
| 1:37.0 | So safe trade is kind of the whole back end for that. |
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