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 business
Martin's way of picking co-founders to maximize success
What 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 company
Did 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. Why the crowdfunding route?
What will they do with the money?
Martins' book recommendation: The hard thing about hard things by Ben Horowitz
Where can interested parties reach Martins or Mintos?