Going into my fourth year at Georgia Tech, I was facing a choice that no student athlete should have to make: stay on the team or work full-time to pay for school. The numbers didn't work, I already had an internship and was busing dishes. I couldn't see a path that kept both.
Six weeks before the semester started, a letter arrived. An anonymous grant from the Georgia Tech Foundation. There were no strings attached. No explanation of who sent it — only that someone, somewhere, had decided I was worth it.
“To this day, I don't know who sent it.”
Thanks to that grant, I stayed on the team. I earned my varsity letter. Met the love of my life. Landed a job that led to my dream career.
That gift changed the course of my life.
Years later, while scrolling through my bank app, I got a note from the Georgia Tech Foundation. Then, I kept scrolling and saw my rewards balance. There were thousands of points I'd never redeem on anything meaningful. And the thought hit me: what if giving worked like rewards — simple, embedded, done in a swipe?
What if the infrastructure existed for someone to give easily to a student-athlete or athletic foundation? No pledge form. No phone call. No new apps. Just a simple choice using the tools you already have. Something to give your points a purpose...
That's Wishbone.
“Someone gave to me anonymously. I'm building the infrastructure to make it easier for others to do the same.”
Wilson Harmond, CFA
Over a decade in payments — commercializing products at FIS/TSYS, building cross-border P2P rails at Flywire, and driving enterprise payments strategy at Truist.
Georgia Tech industrial engineer. Varsity letter winner. Author of Financial Rewinds, a publication on the history of payments.
Wishbone is the intersection of everything I know about how money moves and everything I experienced as a student-athlete.
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If the problem resonates — as a university, an issuer, or an investor — we'd like to talk.