Gyft CEO Vinny Lingham Wants to Digitize Gift Cards for Consumers
The holiday season is only a few months away and for many people that will mean the buying and receiving of copious amounts of retail gift cards. Thickening your wallet with these cards and even remembering to use them all can be inconvenient and troublesome—not the sort of experience you want to have associated with gift giving. Cool person in technology Vinny Lingham founded his startup Gyft in 2012 to attack the problem of physical gift cards. Gyft uses mobile technology to make storing, keeping track of, and using gift cards a seamless process for consumers. Users download an app on their smartphone where they can enter the information from their physical gift cards. Lingham’s app stores the information and lets users access it directly from their phone so they can toss all the plastic versions of their cards away. Read more »
