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?