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Laurent Le Moal

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
246 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

No.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

I think the ability to offer credit is all about your ability to manage risk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

And to do that, you need to be able actually to leverage data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

So if you go around the world, the banks have done this, but all using the same credit scoring model and basically addressing the 1% of the population,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

the population that actually do not really need credit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

If you go now to India and you want to address really the 90% of the population, they do have the means to repay their debt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

They do want, of course, to buy stuff online.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

So consumption is very high, but they have what we call a very thin file.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

So you need really to have all the credit scoring and the ability to extract data from all of the different sources.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

The biggest one actually,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

Yes, absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

That was truly my first company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

Now I would say I try to help younger people with their own companies, but that was my own effort.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

So the classic story, I started alone in my kitchen in Milan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

My accent doesn't give it up, you know, but I'm French and Italian.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

So I was there in Milan, you know, and I basically decided to start a job board, talent manager, basically, you know, just to create the matching mechanism between supply and demand of young professionals in Southern Europe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

So I found, you know, a partner to really build the website.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

And when I see right now the entrepreneurs, you can just set up, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal

Your mobile application use, you know, Amazon, you know, web services.