Teen debit cards and allowance apps. A parent-supervised account for a first spender.
It is a product you buy.
It exists to relieve Want money of your own before you can earn much and Teach a child what money is before it costs them. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Banking system and Smartphones and internet. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
5 organisations in this map sell it, 2 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionTeen debit cards and allowance apps
- FrictionWant money of your own before you can earn much
- Life phaseAdolescence
- Rooted inScarce resources
- Rooted inStatus
Relieves
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visa | $650B | public · V | payment network, debit and credit rails |
| Mastercard | $550B | public · MA | payment network |
| Revolut | $75B | private | neobank, Revolut <18, crypto |
| Greenlight | $2.3B | private | Greenlight debit card for kids, chores and allowance app |
| Acorns | $2B | private | micro-investing, Acorns Early for kids |