Jess Mah is a wunderkind. She started the company that would become inDinero with a handful of other undergrad computer science students while still at UC Berkeley. The team was young, scrappy and smart, with hundreds of mistakes ahead of them. For one, it would be years until the financial services outfit hired their first accountant. 

Almost a decade later inDinero company is thriving, with clients including Pinterest and Slack.  

Louis talks with Jess about the decade she spent building (and sometimes rebuilding) inDinero, the challenges and benefits of being a young founder, what happened to all those small business stimulus checks, and — yes — the future of financial services.  

Highlights include: 

– A terminology breakdown: What is a CFO, a controller, an accountant? 

– Advice for hiring a financial services company

– Jess’s story of building inDinero, including her “no a**holes” policy 

– The importance of being guided by your business plan & how Jess has changed hers

– inDinero’s response to the pandemic & financial roadmapping 

[Guest / Host bios] 

Guest: Jess Mah is the founder & CEO of inDinero, which she launched from her undergrad dorm room in 2010. She’s since been featured in Forbes and Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30 Lists.  

Host: Louis Beryl is the founder and CEO of Rocketplace. A 3x founder, investor, and board member, Louis began his tech career as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz. When he’s not building businesses (or talking about them!) Louis enjoys cooking for his family and talking at length about it to anyone who will listen. 

More on today’s episode, including a full transcript @ https://rocketplace.com/blog/podcast-episode-9-financial-services-jess-mah/.