On Season 2 episode 1 I talk to Benedetta Lucini CEO and co-founder of Oval Money a fintech app aiming to revolutionize saving and investment for the mass market. Benedetta is a former banker at Credit Suisse where she brought many startups to public markets. More recently Benedetta has been an operator at Rocket Internet and General Manager at Uber building up a tonne of operational excellence on running and scaling fast growing businesses. Benedetta was also recently named on the UK FinTech Top 50.

On today’s episode we discuss a range of topics. We kick-off with Benedetta’s view on product market fit and the steps founders can take to achieve this. We then explore best practices in managing a board and the challenge for founders in building a balanced board with independents. Thirdly we touch on how to measure unit economics in a marketplace business and ensure you are scaling sustainably. Finally we explore the entrepreneurial lessons Benedetta learned at Uber working with Travis Kalanick and Uber’s approach to codifying playbooks for expanding aggressively.