Building a tech product - with Lara Gilman

This episode of Demystifying Tech features Lara Gilman, co-lead at iwocaPay.

iwocaPay is a fast-growing B2B payments product which has been built within business loans platform iwoca, star of our FinTech 50 ranking last year.

Lara joined iwoca as head of product and strategy after attempting to build a FinTech startup in the remittance space. The experience helped to shape her approach to building iwocaPay, which now employs 27 people.

The episode covers:

• What Lara learned from her failed startup Yooz (01:51)
• How iwocaPay has been built (07:43)
• Optimal ways for teams to work together (16:22)
• Design sprints and their benefits (19:47)
• Tips for building a tech product from scratch - 'Tech Takeaways' (26:07)
• Why this isn't Lara's first rodeo - literally... (27:22)