A New Credit Card Arrives—With a Silicon Valley Twist

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A New Credit Card Arrives—With a Silicon Valley Twist
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The X1, a new credit card, is designed for people who want premium perks—with or without premium credit scores. It also promises up to five times higher credit limits than the average card. (From 2021)

. It has a sleek app that gives users the ability to create disposable “virtual” cards, cancel subscriptions with one click, and make anonymous transactions without giving out a real name or card number. Its points are redeemable at a list of merchants frequented by the stereotypical tech bro: Peloton, Patagonia, Allbirds, and Airbnb.

Other credit card startups have sought to fill gaps in the market. Brex, which is valued at nearly $8 billion, created a card to work for startups that had funding but no revenue.did something similar for creators locked out of traditional financing. Both of those cards solved a crediting issue for a novel type of business and offered perks specific to their needs. The X1 is hoping to do the same for consumers, specifically those who are mostly young, high-earning, and who live on their phones.

X1 has a sleek app that gives users the ability to create disposable “virtual” cards, cancel subscriptions with one click, and make anonymous transactions.It also offers some simple UX improvements that will appeal to digital natives. Andy Chiu, an account manager at Google who has been using the X1 for the past several months, said that his favorite features were things like being able to copy and paste his credit card number from the X1 app into an ecommerce website.

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