🎧 Building Europe's top investing app, raising capital from Richard Branson & unicorn productivity tips from Wise w/ Martin Sokk (Lightyear) Ep.81

The Pursuit of Scrappiness

Martin Sokk is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lightyear - an app that makes investing lightyears better. Bringing his experience and practical learnings from Wise (Transferwise), Martin and his team have set out to significantly increase stock market participation in Europe.

In this episode we talk about:

  • Increasing stock market participation in Europe
  • Building of standout Fintech products
  • Applying learning from unicorn experience


The topics covered in this episode with Timestamps:

03:00 - Increasing stock market participation in Europe

12:00 - Making investing safer and more accessible for everyone

19:50 - The Lightyear product and business model

25:10 - How to build a standout Fintech product

30:30 - Getting the attention of big name VCs

36:30 - Learnings from working at Wise

42:30 - Martin's main productivity tips from working at Wise and Lightyear

Try investing via Lightyear here > https://golightyear.com/eu 

Support for this episode comes from Nexpay > https://paynexpay.com/

Find other episodes on >  https://www.pursuitofscrappiness.co/

 Watch select full-length episodes on our YouTube channel > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP6ueaLnjS-CQfrMCm2EoTA 

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