🎧 61 Sustainability, unicorn building lessons from early days in Wise and what goes into launching a Fintech w/ Triin Hertmann (Grünfin)

Triin Hertmann is the Founder of Grünfin - Invest your money where your values are. Triin is also an alumnus of Skype and Wise and is very active in angel investments being one of the few female angel investors in the region. 

In this episode we talk about:

- Sustainable investing and the Grünfin product

- Challenges in building a Fintech app

- Impact of unicorn experience with Wise and Skype

- Spotting a future unicorn founder/company

The topics covered in this episode with Timestamps

02:05  - Sustainable investing and the origins of Grünfin

04:00  - State of overall sustainability thinking adoption

05:30 - What constitutes a sustainable investment

07:55 - The returns of sustainable investing

14:00 - Challenges in building a fintech app

14:55- In-house lawyer vs law firms for license acquisition

19:55 - The product vision and pivots

21:45 - Web vs mobile for investment platform

26:05 - Acquiring customers for a Fintech product

27:25 - What it takes to work in sustainability

29:35  - The impact of Skype & Wise on Triin as a founder and person

31:45 - How to spot a unicorn company in early stages

35:35 - Scrappy stories from early days of Wise

37:30 - Quote of the month by Triin on scaling

38:45 - Combining running a startup and angel investing

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