Founder's story: Martins Sulte, CEO and co-founder of Mintos, a global marketplace for investing in loans

01/12/2020 27 min Temporada 1 Episodio 101
Founder's story: Martins Sulte, CEO and co-founder of Mintos, a global marketplace for investing in loans

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Martins Sulte, an INSEAD MBA alumnus, is CEO and Co-Founder at Mintos, an award-winning global marketplace for investing in loans, headquartered in Riga, Latvia.We talk about:Martins's motivation to start his own businessMartin's way of picking co-founders to maximize successWhat is Mintos? How does it work? Where are the investors on the platform from, and which loans does Mintos finance?What's their unique selling point?Did the pandemic affect the loan business and how?Martins' way of keeping with the ever-larger companyDid he always believe this will work out, or did he have a moment when you thought you would give up?Mintos has raised more than EUR 7m on Crowdcube recently. The biggest crowdfunding round in Europe (excl. the UK) ever! Why the crowdfunding route?What will they do with the money?Martins' book recommendation: The hard thing about hard things by Ben HorowitzWhere can interested parties reach Martins or Mintos?Also, we'd love to hear from you! Together with INSEAD's Finance Professor, Lily Fang, we are preparing the podcast about your remote working in Finance and the opportunities this may present for FinTech. If you could spare a couple of minutes contributing to this survey, we will talk about it on the Voice of FinTech podcast very soon: https://bit.ly/2HWcybJ. 

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