About Our Founder

Pooled started the way most great fintech ideas do: with a group of friends, a racetrack bill, and the sudden realization that everyone swears they'll pay you back… eventually.

After organizing private track days, group trips, and rallies, Joe was consistently stuck in the same loop:

• Upfront thousands of dollars
• Endless spreadsheets
• Venmo requests that aged like fine wine
• And the classic: "Actually I can't make it anymore—can I get a refund?"

That pain—plus the new problem of "We got more people than expected and now we have extra money… what do we do with it?"—sparked the idea for a platform that could handle all of it automatically.

So Pooled was born as a simple promise:

• What if groups could pay together without chaos?
• What if organizers never had to front money again?
• And what if refunds were automatic, instant, and fair?

The early MVP ran on stablecoin rails (because banking partners move slower than a box truck on Tail of the Dragon). But real users quickly loved it—and the vision for a better way to pool money for group experiences was born.