#78 Linas Beliūnas – The Evolution of The Fintech Industry

Linas Beliūnas is country manager of Flutterwave and reinventing finance 1% at a time. Linas is currently scaling Flutterwave and leading the company's expansion into Europe. He documents all things financial technology: fintech, blockchain, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies in his newsletter linas.substack.com. ⏺️ Voics: https://www.voics.co/🎙️ Podcast University: https://bit.ly/3Dqip2S🎤 Podcast Accelerator: https://bit.ly/3f1ir81📞 Schedule Free Call: https://bit.ly/3GsNyTU(00:00) Introduction(03:26) How did you grow so quickly on social media? (06:00) What was your background in startups and tech?   (09:35) What has been the evolution of finance and tech firms? (12:18) Trust in traditional banking versus fintech firms(14:23) The challenges that comes with building neobanks  (17:11) Is the amount of capital raised in fintech justified? (21:21) Is the fintech industry too overcrowded?  (23:40) What did Uber get wrong in their business model?   (25:45) Can startups be profitable if they stop growing?   (29:10) IPOs & valuations of Robinhood, Coinbase & Grab (33:11) What excites you in the crypto & blockchain space? (37:52) What is the advantage of DAOs over crowdfunding?   (38:56) What are the concerns of full decentralization?  (42:07) What are your thoughts on the metaverse?  (45:28) Social status and validation in the metaverse  (48:03) What are the investment opportunities in the metaverse?  Please leave a review:- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/36RrL9Y- Apple: https://apple.co/3uCwViFSocials:- YouTube: https://bit.ly/3HleVy2- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3EE3FuG- Apple: https://apple.co/32ArW7D- LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3FCS3JA- TikTok: https://bit.ly/314iZD6Services:- Career mentoring: https://bit.ly/3FCS3JA- Podcast consulting: https://bit.ly/3aYzm5w- Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3JqwkXASupport the show