In this episode we meet Kathryn Petralia in New York to share her ongoing journey in the Fintech industry. Kathryn did not plan to be an entrepreneur and began a carrer as a litterature teacher. What a life since that time! Not only she became a top level business woman, but even a serial entrepreneur and a leading voice in our industry. 

In that episode we deep dive into her life and in Kabbage history including the "not so succesful" banks partnerships and the "perhaps too late" rebundling finance pivot. But we do not stop there, that would be too much of a "déjà vu". We also discuss a lot of some special pages of our common history, the fintech industry at covid time! She shares with us a lot of insights, including how Kabbage was first hit very hard and later on became a key actor of the PPP in the US. We also of course go through the Amex takeover which happen quite soon after that, what came next for the team and the cofounders, her views on the Fintech ups and downs in that very special period and so many other subjects.

As usual, we are not focused on product or business promotion, and by the way Kathryn does not work anymore at Kabbage so you can be sure she was not here to sell anything.  Indeed during 2 hours, we spoke very freely of so many insightful subjects for entrepreneurs such as fund raising, team growth & recruitment, decision process with her co founder, familly life, difficulties of merging startup culture with big corp one, etc...

Warning: believe me, when Kathryn speaks, she forgets the mics and has absolutely no filters, she does not try to be politically correct in any ways. If you are "sensible" to the free speeches, perhaps you should not listen... 

Make yourself comfortable, take a coffee and let's go for 125 minutes of close and personal conversation with Kathryn.

 Ps: a special thought for my friend Rob Frowhein, co founder of Kabbage with Kathryn. He was not part of the podcast, but of course part of many of our discussions in it 🙂

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