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

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinssulte/">Martins Sulte</a>, an <a href="https://www.insead.edu/">INSEAD </a>MBA alumnus, is CEO and Co-Founder at <a href="https://www.mintos.com/en/">Mintos</a>, an award-winning global marketplace for investing in loans, headquartered in Riga, Latvia.</p><p>We talk about:</p><ul> <li>Martins's motivation to start his own business</li> <li>Martin's way of picking co-founders to maximize success</li> <li>What is Mintos? How does it work? </li> <li>Where are the investors on the platform from, and which loans does Mintos finance?</li> <li>What's their unique selling point?</li> <li>Did the pandemic affect the loan business and how?</li> <li>Martins' way of keeping with the ever-larger company</li> <li>Did he always believe this will work out, or did he have a moment when you thought you would give up?</li> <li>Mintos has raised more than EUR 7m on <a href="https://www.crowdcube.com/companies/mintos/pitches/qDJxrZ">Crowdcube</a> recently. The biggest crowdfunding round in Europe (excl. the UK) ever! Why the crowdfunding route?</li> <li>What will they do with the money?</li> <li>Martins' book recommendation: <a href="https://www.amazon.de/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0062273205">The hard thing about hard things</a> by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/behorowitz/">Ben Horowitz</a> </li> <li>Where can interested parties reach Martins or Mintos?</li> </ul><p>Also, we'd love to hear from you! Together with <a href="http://insead.edu/">INSEAD</a>'s Finance Professor, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lily-fang-b119035/">Lily Fang</a>, we are preparing the podcast about your remote working in Finance and the opportunities this may present for FinTech. If you could spare a couple of minutes contributing to this survey, we will talk about it on the <a href="https://www.voiceoffintech.com/">Voice of FinTech</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=podcast&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6728973232587726848">podcast</a> ve