The Pursuit of Scrappiness 🎧 Building Europe's top investing app, raising capital from Richard Branson & unicorn productivity tips from Wise w/ Martin Sokk (Lightyear) Ep.81
Martin Sokk is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lightyear - an app that makes investing lightyears better. Bringing his experience and practical learnings from Wise (Transferwise), Martin and his team have set out to significantly increase stock market participation in Europe.
In this episode we talk about:
- Increasing stock market participation in Europe
- Building of standout Fintech products
- Applying learning from unicorn experience
The topics covered in this episode with Timestamps:
03:00 - Increasing stock market participation in Europe
12:00 - Making investing safer and more accessible for everyone
19:50 - The Lightyear product and business model
25:10 - How to build a standout Fintech product
30:30 - Getting the attention of big name VCs
36:30 - Learnings from working at Wise
42:30 - Martin's main productivity tips from working at Wise and Lightyear
Try investing via Lightyear here > https://golightyear.com/eu
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