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How Rain Turned Stablecoins Into Real-World Spend with Farooq Malik

We trace Rain’s path from a small fundraising tool to global spend infrastructure, built through a crypto winter by shipping fast, staying lean, and solving real customer pains. Farooq Malik, CEO and Founder of Rain, shares lessons on timing, moats, and why the best financial technology disappears into the background. • origin of Rain from a side project into spend rails • first proof of concept and early customers’ pains • surviving Terra and FTX with lean execution • building a technology moat over vendor advantages • simple mission framed without crypto jargon • vision for invisible financial infrastructure • founder advice on timing, team, and patience • immigrant lens on identity and building a tribe • stablecoins enabling access, speed, and new models • global footprint across the US, LatAm, Caribbean, Asia, Africa • rapid-fire favorites and closing links Contact Bam Azizi: @bamazizimesh Contact Farooq Malik: @rooqster 0:00 Kicking Off And Guest Intro 0:53 Farooq’s Early Life And Roots 1:21 Why Rain Began And First Ventures 2:39 From Side Project To Stablecoins 4:18 First POC And The Chicken Tenders Test 4:52 Surviving 2022: Terra, FTX, And Focus 6:48 Lean Team, Customer Pain, Product Fit 8:30 Early Customers And Unexpected Logos 10:07 Building A Durable Technology Moat 12:04 Explaining Rain Without Saying Crypto 13:02 Vision: Invisible Infrastructure Wins 14:48 Advice To Founders: Team And Timing 17:15 Immigrant Lessons: Identity And Tribe 19:21 Stablecoins As Global Access And Speed 21:10 Where Rain Operates And Scales 22:31 Rapid Fire: Life And Favorites 27:12 Closing