A Very Good Year — How We Built the Jiko Network, Part I

Team Jiko
Team Jiko
Nov 6 · 2 min read

First Stop: Washington, DC

Ahem. Is this thing on?

It’s been more than a year since Team Jiko went dark across social media. Twitter, Instagram, even our website — we shared a few words about going into “stealth mode” and promptly disappeared.

Didn’t write. Didn’t call. Didn’t even peruse our mentions.

From the outside, it might have looked like the digital equivalent of a ‘Gone Fishing’ sign.

But here at Jiko headquarters, we were moving full speed ahead. We’ve been building a network designed to deliver better financial service to Jiko members throughout the US. Along the way, we’ve grown our team, traveled around the world, and quietly launched multiple features on the Jiko beta app.

That’s more than:

50,000 new signups on the beta waitlist

500 early access members

25,000 miles flown

20 creative and dedicated team members added

in just 18 short months.

Now it’s 2019, and the core of the Jiko network is in place. That’s why we went dark last year: to focus on engineering the right way, from the ground up.

And our Jiko members are reaping the advantages. Thanks to the Jiko network, we’re able to offer a different kind of service: the ability for ordinary savers to open a Jiko, add funds, and participate in automated investment in US Treasury Bills. (What’s a T-Bill and how does the network invest in it? Learn more about the risks and rewards of T-Bill investment here.)

If you’re trying to remember where you’ve heard this before, you can stop.

You might be able to put together a set of apps, platforms, and accounts that approximates what the Jiko network does. You could transfer money to an e-brokerage, wait two days for it to clear, place a complicated order to buy T-Bills, wait a day for it to clear, and then finally see it reflected in your portfolio balance. If you needed funds, you could do it all over again in reverse.

You could do that, sure. Or you could download the beta app and sign up for a Jiko.

How did we do it? Follow us on Medium for dispatches from the tech side of the Jiko network.

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We’re building a new, independent financial institution that combines cutting-edge technology with responsible financial innovations.

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We’re building a new, independent financial institution that combines cutting-edge technology with responsible financial innovations.

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