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Founder's story: Martins Sulte, CEO and co-founder of Mintos, a global marketplace for investing in loans

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?

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