Alberto Dalmasso, CEO of Satispay – Building Italy's Everyday Fintech App, Serving 4M Users & 330k Merchants, Early Failures and Successes
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Miguel Armaza interviews Alberto Dalmasso, CEO & Co-Founder of Satispay, the largest fintech in Italy and one largest fintechs in Europe. Founded in 2013, Satispay has 4 million consumers and 330,000 merchants active on the platform. Started as a payments network, they’ve now evolved to a wider financial services ecosystem and super-app. Satispay has raised $500 million from Block, Greyhound, Addition, Coatue, Banca Sella, Endeavor, and many more.
We discuss:
- Strategies and key metrics on building one of the largest payment networks in Europe, bypassing Visa and Mastercard
- Balancing aggressive growth and a culture of efficiency
- Learning through small mistakes
- Evolving into a wider super-app for consumers
- Leadership lessons on handling pressure
- Spreading confidence instead of fear… lots more!
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