This Serial Entrepreneur Just Disrupted 400 Years Of Banking And Financial Services In 24 Months
Peter Briffett has raised $40M for his latest tech startup which may prove to be one of the most disruptive yet. He has started, folded, scaled and sold multiple companies. His latest venture is breaking hundreds of years of status quo in the financial industry. During our interview on the Dealmakers Podcast Briffett shared a snapshot of the many ventures he’s played a role in, what happens when you slack on your upfront market research, the code to creating a successful startup, and how he and his cofounder are changing the way the world gets paid. Because, after all it turns out that getting paid every 30 days is really unhelpful to everyone. It may even be predatory.
Peter Briffett has raised $40M for his latest tech startup which may prove to be one of the most disruptive yet.
He has started, folded, scaled and sold multiple companies. His latest venture is breaking hundreds of years of status quo in the financial industry.
During our interview on the DealMakers Podcast,Briffett shared a snapshot of the many ventures he’s played a role in, what happens when you slack on your upfront market research, the code to creating a successful startup, and how he and his cofounder are changing the way the world gets paid. Because, after all it turns out that getting paid every 30 days is really unhelpful to everyone. It may even be predatory.
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- 1. How Travel Prepares You For Entrepreneurship
- 2. If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again
- 3. The Code For A Successful Startup
- 4. Wagestream
How Travel Prepares You For Entrepreneurship
With such a successful global startup it should be no surprise that Peter Briffett has done his fair share of traveling the planet. It seems to be one of those assets which uniquely prepares entrepreneurs for success.
That may be because it just gives them a whole new perspective on things and ways of doing things. Or by equipping them to be resilient to challenges and becoming natural at handling new environments and finding a path forward.
In Peter’s case, he was born in Hong Kong. Then his parents took him around the world before he ended up doing even more traveling on his own journey.
During his school years he lived in Hong Kong, Kenya, Singapore and the UK. Despite the daily rain and grey skies he stuck it out for university in England.
If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again
After college Peter took another leap and crossed the pond to the US to sell books door to door across the states.
Then he fell into tech and ended up selling modems as the PC market began to explode. It was a time when it seemed almost impossible to fail in computer related businesses, and he aspired to going out on his own.
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