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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

Look, the story there was NASPERS is, as I said, you know, one of the biggest investors.

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 they've got participation in TV, in classic media, in e-commerce like Flipkart, Tencent and so on.

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 then they are this payment 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

And the whole story was, well, look, we've got this payments company, you know, in 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

Is there something bigger that we could do with 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

So the whole discussion for me was like, look, I think you are in the right market.

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

This is where the growth is coming from, okay, in the next five years.

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 markets that U.S.

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

companies truly struggle to understand and really get access to.

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

But you need to do something much bigger, and that's financial services.

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 joined really NASPERS and PayU on the basis of I'm going to manage that payment business but transform it into a financial services 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

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

That's what we're doing.

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

Yeah, so actually we finished this year, right in 2016, around $18 billion of payments, volumes.

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

It's all USD, 18 billion.

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 growth rate was around 40%.

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

Year over year?

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

Year over year, yes.

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

40% year over year.