How Did You Become the FinTech Guy?

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Primary reading made like multiple in 5000 lists. It's one, I think once we did it, top 500 fastest growing company. So all of a sudden I became like the FinTech guy somehow. And then I was the only person with 10 years of peer-to-peer lending experience. Right. When you said you grew the company from 9 million to 300 million, what exactly did you do in that time? Raise money. Gotcha. You were a professional investor when you unbeknownst to you when you first approached them. No, I was not. Yeah. so and I love finance. So I understood the business very quickly. And I knew and so so so talking

Val Katayev is a tech and finance entrepreneur. In his high school yearbook, he decided he wanted to make $1,000,000 by the age of 30. He hit it by 19. In this interview, we spoke about some of his businesses, crypto, the looming recession, the power of a personal brand, and much more.

(0:00) Intro

(0:45) Wealth At A Young Age

(2:48) Resourcefulness

(4:44) PlayStation Website

(11:34) Val’s Secret Weapon

(17:55) Google’s 2nd Biggest Advertiser

(24:41) Ringtones

(39:11) People Don’t Know

(41:00) Val’s Current Business

(44:55) Mobile

(46:58) Going With The Future

(48:50) Retirement