The Pursuit of Scrappiness

We dig deeper into two fintech verticals - stock investing apps and the business model of Robinhood as well as Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) and the reasons why Klarna is Europe’s most valuable private fintech company. Should you start a new stock investing fintech and will we stop paying full price for goods immediately as the new norm in shopping? Find out in the latest episode! Things you will learn...

Eerik (EE) and his partner Marten (EE) co-founded Planet42 in 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa. They started by borrowing money from their friends to buy and rent cars to people who otherwise would not have access to credit. Talk about taking risks. Since then, Planet 42 has raised USD 20 million from both VCs as well prominent tech entrepreneurs and is on its way to expand to Mexico this year. ...

We discuss 2 things that have seen a meteoric rise in March - Bitcoin and hundreds of millions of Euros in venture capital investments pouring into instant food delivery in Europe Will Uldis spend his government stimmy checks to buy Bitcoin and why is Janis so excited about strangers in gorilla costumes bringing cookies to his apartment? Find out in the latest episode Bitcoin: Reasons why holding...

In our first interview, we are excited to welcome Toms Niparts the Co-Founder and CEO of Jeff-app.com - a matchmaker between people and loans that gathers and utilizes alternative data to help unbanked consumers in Asia access financial services.  Toms shares his experience of starting a business remotely on the other side of the world, tips on hiring the top talent with a strong cultural fit as w...