Fayl Tales
Behind every startup success story is a trail of mistakes, pivots, broken plans and brilliant comebacks.
Fayl Tales is the podcast where entrepreneurs, founders, investors and early employees share the real side of building something new - the failures that shaped them, the lessons they learned the hard way, and the resilience it takes to keep going.
Hosted by Loveth, each episode dives into the raw, funny and honest moments most business stories leave out - so you can learn faster, fail smarter, and feel less alone on your own journey.
Follow the show for weekly conversations that prove: failure isn’t the end, it’s part of the story.
Fayl Tales
Why Giving at Checkout Feels Awkward and How Tim Millbank Tried to Fix It with Change for Change
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What if donating didn’t require a big monthly commitment… or an awkward “do you want to round up?” moment at the checkout?
In this episode I’m joined by Tim Millbank, founder of Change for Change, a fintech-for-good platform designed to turn everyday spending into micro-donations for vetted charities. Think round-up apps, but instead of investing spare change for private wealth… it goes straight to social impact.
Tim shares what it actually takes to build a charity fintech in Australia and the stuff donors and charities don’t say out loud like why people expect 100% of donations to go directly to programs (and why that can backfire).
In this episode, we cover:
- What Change for Change is and how round-up donations work
- Building a fintech with a non-technical background (and bootstrapping reality)
- Charity fundraising channels, donor psychology, and the “emails every week” problem
- The iOS/App Store barrier (and why they refused to become a charity just to list)
- The pivot to a progressive web app (PWA) and the user-experience tradeoffs
- Why fintech + charity = innovation… but also hard mode
Tim’s biggest lessons on MVP, product-market fit, and doing impact work sustainably
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