Andy Pai (Finbox): Bootstrapping to a life-changing exit
Description
Andy Pai is the CEO and co-founder of Finbox, a financial data platform that covers over 100,000 stocks on 130+ exchanges around the world. Andy co-founded Finbox in 2015 and bootstrapped it all the way to an exit to Investing.com, a leader in financial data and a Top 200 website globally. In this episode, he takes us behind the scenes of the entire journey:
00:00 What is Finbox
00:35 Origin story: How it all started
03:00 Validating the idea
06:27 Learning from founders in the industry
08:58 Iterating to find product-market fit
12:25 Working on two startups at the same time
15:02 Bootstrapping vs. venture capital
25:20 Hiring: You don’t have to solve every problem yourself
30:15 Getting acquired by Investing.com
39:08 Having a bias for action
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