Fintech Growth Insider

Edoardo Moreni grew up in Rome in a family that was not exactly entrepreneurial. His mom worked at an airline and his dad for Italy’s post company. And while they were always supportive of his ambition, they were mockingly calling him by the nickname of CEO since he was 14. As a teenager, the future CEO of Emma watched The Social Network 25 times and felt inspired to build something in tech. That’...

When Carlos Caro joined Credit Karma in 2016, the company had 50 million members and was generating $500 million a year. By the time he left, in 2020, Credit Karma had grown to 110 million members and nearly a billion dollars in revenue and was sold to Intuit for $8.1 billion. Carlos was born in Venezuela, and his family relocated to Washington D.C. when he was three years old. The son of two engi...

I‘m Julien Brault and on the show today, how Maxwell Nicholson , CEO and co-founder of Blossom Social , built a social network for investors with over 160,000 monthly active users, 3.8 million dollars in annual revenue and a weekly newsletter that generates 500,000 dollars per year. Maxwell was making $120,000 a year at McKinsey with a clear path to double that within a few years, but he couldn't...

Born in Belgium, Wealthsimple ’s Chief Growth Officer Simon Lejeune wanted to be a journalist growing up. His parents did not think it was a great idea, and Simon decided to study business engineering to keep his parents happy, with the secret goal of, one day, owning a newspaper. He moved to Montreal after graduation, and held various marketing jobs that led him to become head of user acquisition...