CJ MacDonald is a fintech entrepreneur who founded Step, a financial platform built to give younger users access to banking, investing, and financial literacy tools. CJ MacDonald's Twitter Score is 29 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #32,933 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
CJ MacDonald founded Step alongside Alexey Kalinichenko, with the platform designed to bring financial tools and literacy to a younger demographic. In February 2026, Beast Industries announced its acquisition of Step, which now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Beast Industries, with CJ MacDonald remaining affiliated with the company. Step expanded into cryptocurrency investing in 2022, initially offering bitcoin access, with plans for additional cryptocurrencies, and its disclosures note that cryptocurrencies held on the platform are not covered by FDIC or SIPC insurance.
CJ MacDonald also co-founded Gyft, a digital gift card platform, serving as its COO. Gyft partnered with BitPay in 2013 to accept bitcoin payments, letting customers buy retailer gift cards using bitcoin, an early move to bring cryptocurrency into mainstream commerce. First Data acquired Gyft in 2014, though the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. CJ MacDonald previously worked at Luminate and LiveOps earlier in his career.
CJ MacDonald has accumulated 5,597 followers as of August 2026 on X and has published 3,770 posts. CJ MacDonald has been mentioned by 22 accounts, with 41 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow CJ MacDonald include 160 founders, 61 angel investors, 17 influencers and 4 VCs. Among them are David Sacks, Jesse Walden, MoonPay, Andrew Chen, Cuy Sheffield and Erik Torenberg.