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Ethan Bloch
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Best Story Wins
Why Trust Is the New Brand Currency
While many fintechs are focused on surface-level features, Ethan Bloch is building an ambitious, AI-powered financial product from the ground up. In this episode, Ethan, Founder of Digit and now Hiro Finance, shares why he believes most financial tools are more cosmetic than useful, and how a truly helpful product can speak for itself—no referral codes needed. He breaks down how AI is unlocking more personalized financial support, why trust is the most valuable asset in fintech, and how strong branding often follows when you genuinely solve real problems.We also cover:How building in the...
2025-06-26
42 min
The Restive Perspective
In Conversation with Ethan Bloch | The Restive Perspective
Ethan Bloch is the founder of Digit, one of the leading fintech companies of the past decade which sold to Oportun in 2021. In this conversation, Ethan reflect on his leadership journey, what he learned from his first company, and where he sees opportunity as he looks to build Digit’s second act. This is an audio session that was recorded as part of a Go Restive event in February 2025. As a lead up to the session, Cameron and Ryan discuss the conversation and their takeaways and highlights. About Restive:Restive is a seed stag...
2025-06-25
40 min
Money Isn't Everything
Can fintech and banks truly help people build savings habits?
Consumers are depleting the savings they built during the pandemic. Mary Wisniewski sits down with Ethan Bloch, the founder of Digit, one of the first algorithmic saving apps to hit the U.S. They examine: overdraft fees, best practices for building a product that inspires behavior change and whether fintech has improved financial services at all. They still manage to laugh. Send us a text
2024-04-18
31 min
The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action
E298 Ethan Bloch, CEO at Digit
Today's guest is Ethan Bloch, CEO at Digit in San Francisco. Digit are on a mission to make financial health effortless for everyone. In 2015, they launched the first truly personalized and automated savings app that has helped members save over $7 billion towards their financial goals to date. Today, Digit fully automate the day-to-day work of managing all personal finances including banking, saving, budgeting, investing and retirement. Digit gives members the power of an all-in-one financial app that helps them effortlessly manage their money based on their individual financial situation and goals, alongside financial best practices. As one...
2022-01-19
13 min
Fintech Cafe Podcast
25: Ethan Bloch, Founder and CEO of Digit
Digit is automating personal finances and helping consumers save effortlessly. We discuss Digit’s upcoming launch of a bank account and other exciting features on their product roadmap.
2021-10-07
57 min
Le TECH SHOW | European Digital Group
LE TECH SHOW 5 avec Jean-David Bénichou & Vincent Klingbeil / EDG
Imaginée par Vincent Klingbeil, serial entrepreneur et fondateur d’European Digital Group, le Tech Show est une émission 100% digital qui a pour but de vous faire découvrir des pépites du monde des start-ups, apprendre les dernières nouveautés de la tech sur un ton décalé. Une fois par mois ce talkshow «made in France» donne la parole aux entrepreneurs, aux start-ups, aux grandes entreprises et à tous ceux qui mettent leurs talents au service de l’accélération digitale. Pour ce 5ème épisode diffusé le 9 septembre, Vincent Klingbeil reçoit Jean-David Bénicho...
2021-09-08
1h 14
Just Go Grind
#292: Ethan Bloch, Founder and CEO of Digit, on Strategic Fundraising, Accelerated Learning, and Pioneering Algorithmic Saving to Make Financial Health Effortless for Everyone
Ethan Bloch is the Founder and CEO of Digit, on a mission to tackle the number one stressor for Americans: financial well-being. In doing so, Ethan aims to make financial health effortless for everyone. His obsession with personal finance started at age thirteen when he began day trading technology stocks with his bar mitzvah money and continued as he studied behavioral finance in college and realized that that financial health does not come naturally to most. To combat this, Ethan created Digit, the first personalized and automated savings app that helps members reach their financial goals and achieve results...
2021-05-17
49 min
VetCAST
Are You Gonna Eat That?
Episode Hosts: Christie Gosse, Hannah Villhauer Course Coordinators & Podcast Ringmasters: Colleen Duncan, Anna Fagre, Molly Carpenter, Treana Mayer Audio Engineer: Ethan Fagre Episode details: Are you curious about the impact of food waste? If so, this episode is for you! Hannah and Christie delve into how much food is wasted, how food waste impacts climate change, food waste’s effects on wildlife, and what can be done to decrease our food waste production. Food waste is a commonly overlooked issue that has both direct and indirect ef...
2020-12-23
15 min
American Banker Podcast
How does a challenger bank earn customers’ trust? Digit CEO explains
"To wake up one day and assume everyone in America is going to be above average at math and above average rational is crazy," says Ethan Bloch, whose app is designed to help people achieve financial health.
2020-01-14
20 min
The Buzz
Digit's Ethan Bloch on the future of personal finance
On this episode of Fintech Unfiltered, sponsored by Q2 {open}, we spoke to Digit founder and CEO Ethan Bloch on Digit's next steps and the future of personal finance. Bloch emphasized the goal is not to replace the bank but to help customers manage their money better through automation. This is an excerpt from a phone interview.
2019-09-25
10 min
The Art of You
#2 The Centered Artist: The Spiritual Architecture of a Physical World (Part 2)
How can we experience the full passion and spontaneity of creativity, while remaining centered and balanced. Yoel Judowitz (artist/writer) and Ethan Davidson (singer/songwriter) riff on this question and more as they study Shiurei Da’as, a collection of essays on Jewish philosophy, ethics, and mysticism from Rabbi Yosef Yehudah Leib Bloch of blessed memory. (Hebrew text is translated in the course of the episode)
2019-08-23
55 min
The Art of You
#1: Compressed Infinity: The Spiritual Architecture of a Physical World (Part 1)
How can we experience spirituality in a world of physical limitation? Yoel Judowitz (artist/writer) and Ethan Davidson (singer/songwriter) riff on this question and more as they study Shiurei Da’as, a collection of essays on Jewish philosophy, ethics, and mysticism from Rabbi Yosef Yehudah Leib Bloch of blessed memory. (Hebrew text is translated in the course of the episode)
2019-08-23
45 min
Quantum Computing Now
Pilot - Episode 0 [General]
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2019-07-08
08 min
Barefoot Innovation Podcast
Outspoken: Bill Harris, Founder and Chairman of Personal Capital and former CEO of Intuit and Paypal
In the early days of Barefoot Innovation, one of my guests said something very provocative, that I knew would not sit well with some of our listeners. I considered whether to edit it out. Someone on my team pointed out that my website features a quote from Carl Sagan about the importance of truth-telling, and we decided that it’s the essence of this show to have a wide range of guests and let them speak as they want, without editing, and with the understanding that it’s their opinions rather than mine. It’s a good thing...
2017-05-22
1h 23
Dj Danny Gray
Danny Gray - House Party Vol. 19 - 08.02.17
LATEST MIX HOPE YOU ENJOY IT! DOWNLOAD ENABLED! TRACKLIST: 1. Jax Jones - You Don't Know Me ft. RAYE 2. Tom Zanetti - You Want Me ft. Sadie Ama 3. Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles ft. Gucci Mane (Tom Budin Remix) 4. Tom Zanetti - Darlin, That's Not Me (James Godfrey Remix) 5. Zara Larsson - I Would Like (Dan Judge Jordan King Remix) 6. Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You (Dan Judge & Jordan King Remix) 7. Francois - I Can Say 8. Kid Cudi - Day Night (Scott Forshaw Greg Stainer Remix) 9. Mary J Blige - Just Fine (Ethan James House Remix) 10. Neiked - Sexual (Jesse Bloch...
2017-02-08
1h 02
Barefoot Innovation Podcast
Effortless Saving: Digit CEO Ethan Bloch
This is one of my favorite episodes we've ever done - my conversation with Digit founder and CEO, Ethan Bloch. Digit has set out to solve one of the core problems in consumers' financial lives - how to save. Their solution is to make savings effortless, using an intelligent algorithm that analyzes your spending and income patterns and automatically moves funds into savings. I had dinner with Ethan last summer and suddenly realized he was describing an "Uberization" of savings, paralleling the financial industry's efforts to "uberize" payments, in the sense of making the mechanics disappear, like the non-exchange...
2016-02-26
1h 05
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi - Stories of Personal Finance, Entrepreneurship, Financial Success, and Money Strategy
190: Ethan Bloch, Founder and CEO of Digit.co
Knowing how much to put aside for the future, emergencies or anything else for that matter can be challenging. How much can you afford to save? How much do you need to reach your goal? What if there was only an app that could figure all of that for you and actually save on your behalf? Introducing: Ethan Bloch, the founder and CEO of Digit: Automated Savings, an automated savings tool with text-enabled communication. The app connects to your checking account, which allows Digit to analyze your income and spending habits to find small amounts to save for you. Those amo...
2015-07-20
36 min
Listen Money Matters - Free your inner financial badass. All the stuff you should know about personal finance.
Automate Saving Using Digit with Ethan Bloch
We are advocates of automating your finances and that includes automating saving money. But we don’t want saving to crimp your style. That’s why we love Digit. You can automate saving using Digit. We interview Ethan Bloch the CEO of Digit to learn how to automate saving without feeling it in your wallet.Full Article Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2015-01-30
44 min
Listen Money Matters - Free your inner financial badass. All the stuff you should know about personal finance.
Automate Saving Using Digit with Ethan Bloch
We are advocates of automating your finances and that includes automating saving money. But we don’t want saving to crimp your style. That’s why we love Digit. You can automate saving using Digit. We interview Ethan Bloch the CEO of Digit to learn how to automate saving without feeling it in your wallet. Full Article Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2015-01-30
42 min
Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership
Dan Martell / Clarity
Dan Martell, Co-Founder of Flowtown, joins Adam to talk about his road to success with Flowtown, getting acquired, how he met his Co-Founder Ethan Bloch on Twitter, angel investing and being an advisor, giving back to charity and customer development and how to get traction. Dan also shared something super secret (a new project) … as well as much, much more. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Dan Martell – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Linked...
2011-11-30
53 min
The Hopkinson Report
The Hopkinson Report Episode 101: Interview - Ethan Bloch of Flowtown.com
Recorded live at SXSW, Jim talks to Ethan Bloch of Flowtown.com, a service that turns email addresses into social profiles.
2010-04-20
00 min
The Hopkinson Report
The Hopkinson Report Episode 101: Interview - Ethan Bloch of Flowtown.com
Recorded live at SXSW, Jim talks to Ethan Bloch of Flowtown.com, a service that turns email addresses into social profiles.
2010-04-20
21 min
The Web 2.0 Show
Episode 70 - Flowtown / Ethan Bloch
Adam speaks with Ethan Bloch, Co-Founder & CEO of Flowtown to talk about the wonders of serendipity, following your gut and the ins and outs of product development following Eric Reis's "Lean Startup" model.
2010-03-01
53 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS): What Are They? - Episode #39
Today Ethan Bloch talks in detail about TIPS, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities. How they work, why you should own them and the best ways to buy them.
2009-01-21
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
The 4-Fund Portfolio - Episode #36
1 Money Market Fund + 3 Index Funds = The 4-Fund Portfolio. Extremely powerful, yet pleasantly simple, that's what Ethan Bloch is talking about on today's episode.
2009-01-19
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
The 4-Fund + 1 Portfolio - Episode #38
Ethan Bloch talks about a few different tweaks you can make to personalize your 4-fund portfolio.
2009-01-19
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
The 4-Fund Portfolio: Allocation Guidelines - Episode #37
Ethan Bloch shares allocation guidelines to follow when assembling your 4-Fund Portfolio.
2009-01-14
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Best Brokerages For Index Funds - Episode #16
In today's episode Ethan Bloch talks about the three different online brokerages he believes have the best Index Fund offerings.
2009-01-13
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Rock On: 2008 Recap. 2009 Preview. - Episode #35
On today's episode Ethan Bloch recaps TWTBW in 2008 and shares a bit of what's in store for 2009.
2009-01-12
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Time Is An Investors Best Friend - Episode #5
Such a basic principal that's so often overlooked, MAJOR MISTAKE. Today Ethan Bloch talks about Time, in the sense that it can be your best friend, but only if you grasp it, hold it close and understand how to capitalize on it.
2009-01-10
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
The Inflation Monster - Episode #4
Ethan Bloch talks about the dangers of inflation, how it effects you and why you should care.
2009-01-10
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Pay Yourself First - Episode #2
Today Ethan Bloch talks about one of the first steps towards building wealth: Paying Yourself First! It sounds easy, but in practice proves to be quite difficult. The bottom line? You'll never build wealth if you can't pay yourself first.
2009-01-10
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Investing vs. Speculating - Episode #1
In the first episode of The Way to Build Wealth Ethan Bloch stresses the importance of understanding the fundamental difference between investing and speculating.
2009-01-10
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Turn Your Losers Into Winners: Taxes 2009 - Episode #34
In today's episode Ethan Bloch explains how to take advantage of the tax code and turn your investment losers into winners.
2008-12-28
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
2 Easy Way To Protect Yourself From Inflation - Episode #32
The future may bring hyper inflation, are you prepared? On today's episode Ethan Bloch talks about two different investments that can protect you from inflation.
2008-12-23
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
You've Got What You Need. Now Make A Plan And Execute! - Episode #30
Warning: Ethan Bloch could talk for decades about building wealth, but if you never make a plan and execute, you will never be wealthy.
2008-12-19
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
The Power of Dry Powder - Episode #29
Ethan Bloch loves Dry Powder, who doesn't? It's just a super cool way to say cash, you dig? But what really matters is that you keep some laying around for rainy days and once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunities.
2008-12-18
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Buying Government Debt, Part 1: How? - Episode #26
Ethan Bloch discusses a few ways to own government debt with a focus on utilizing TreasuryDirect.gov, the governments very own online debt brokerage.
2008-12-16
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
The World's Best Money Market Funds - Episode #25
Yesterday Ethan Bloch talked explained how savings accounts destroy wealth. Today he's talking about a great alternative to savings accounts: Money Market Funds.
2008-12-12
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Savings Accounts Destroy Wealth - Episode #24
Today Ethan Bloch lays down some knowledge sauce about the wealth destroying properties of conventional savings accounts. He does however, have a surprise in store!
2008-12-11
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Index Fund Checklist: Don't Leave Home Without It - Episode #23
Ethan Bloch highlights three criteria from his Index Fund checklist. The full checklist is linked up at TheWaytoBuildWealth.org in html and PDF form. Be sure to print this bad boy and and put it in your wallet for fast and easy access.
2008-12-10
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
International Index Funds - Episode #21
In today's show Ethan Bloch talks about International Index Funds; their advantages and disadvantages, as well as a few common misconceptions.
2008-12-08
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Diversification In Relation To Index Funds - Episode #20
Do Index Funds provide enough diversification? Is it a bad idea to only hold a few index funds as your entire investment portfolio? In today's episode Ethan Bloch answers these questions.
2008-12-05
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Stocks Are King. But Bonds Can Be Tasty Too! - Episode #19
Ethan Bloch has repeatedly said that stocks are the best investments for building wealth over the long term. Today however he is discussing why you can't completely disregard bonds; and he goes one step further by explaining the best way to own them.
2008-12-04
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Mutual Funds Suck 2.0 - Episode #18
Two weeks ago Ethan Bloch explained why actively managed mutual funds suck. Today he's smothering on another layer of suck sauce by explaining the high fees associated with most mutual funds.
2008-12-01
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Book Review: Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy J. Siegel - Episode #17
Thanksgiving is over, welcome back, let's get right into building some wealth with a wealth building book review. As Ethan Bloch has said so many times, stocks are the best investments for the long run or better yet stocks are the best avenue for building wealth. In today's episode Ethan reviews a book whose sole purpose is to prove this true.
2008-12-01
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
The Investing World Is Broken - Episode #14
The investing world is broken and today Ethan Bloch explains why.
2008-11-24
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Book Review: The Little Book Of Common Sense Investing by John Bogel - Episode #13
Written by the father of the worlds first Index Fund, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is responsible for many of the views Ethan Bloch holds in regards to Index Funds and Mutual Funds.
2008-11-21
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
Mutual Funds Suck - Episode #12
You read that right, actively managed mutual funds suck! High fees, short tenured management, success leads to failure, paradox of choice; there are many reasons why mutual funds suck and Ethan Bloch spends today's episode explaining them.
2008-11-19
00 min
The Way to Build Wealth (Medium Quicktime)
What Kind Of Investor Do You Want To Become? - Episode #9
A few months ago Ethan Bloch had written about three different investment approaches. Today he reintroduces all the three and emphasizes how the Passive Investment approach is the best investment approach for the majority of investors.
2008-11-17
00 min