Recorded live on the floor of Baltic Fintech Days in Riga, this raw and honest conversation with two of Latvia’s most experienced fintech builders is the episode you didn’t know you needed.
Nauris Bloks sits down with Iveta Bruvele, founder and CEO of Wandoo Finance Group, a digital lending company that has issued over 600 million euros in consumer loans across multiple markets since 2016, and Sergejs Viskovskis, co-founder and CEO of INDEMO, a regulated alternative investment platform delivering an average annual return of 21.6 percent to more than 21,000 investors.
Together they pull back the curtain on what it actually takes to build a fintech from scratch. Iveta shares how a cold call from a stranger with money led to the founding of Wando, and what nearly broke the business when Covid hit. Sergejs opens up about trading a decade of legal expertise for the chaos of a startup office and why his lawyer brain still fights his CEO instincts every single day. Both founders get brutally honest about the moments they wanted to quit, how their motivations evolved from ego and money to something far harder to define, and why the version of yourself that starts a company is never the version that can finish building it.
If you are thinking about starting your own fintech, watch this before you do anything else.
