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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

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

Well, otherwise it would have been a different story.

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

Or it could be, you know, we'll be talking about our next trip to Mars or something like that.

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's what people do now, 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

Yep, that's great.

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

When Earth is too small, it's like, let's go to Mars.

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

Who's that?

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

PayU.

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, Peiyu is part of a company, a big group called Naspers, a very diversified group, which is one of the biggest technology investors for high-growth markets.

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

One example, Naspers is the largest shareholder of Tencent, for instance, in China.

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

Oh, then we invest, of course, you know, we do two things.

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

We have our payments business, as I explained before, and we have also, you know, our FinTech arm, which is truly investing in interesting startups that we see in the different markets.

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

Got it.

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 right.

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

You mentioned Luno, you mentioned Zest Money.

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

These are startups that we see.

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

Luno was in Singapore and South Africa, a Bitcoin exchange.

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

Zest Money is a consumer credit, a very good team in India.

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

Actually, for us, the opportunity is to be not just an operator, but also an investor.

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 one of the things I believe is