April 05, 2022

Kurt Lin, Co-Founder/CEO of Pinwheel – Pushing the Frontiers of Fintech Innovation, How to Build an A+ Remote Team, & the Future of Credit Scoring

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Miguel Armaza sits down with Kurt Lin, Co-Founder & CEO of Pinwheel, a cutting-edge payroll data connectivity platform helping fintechs and financial institutions access data from 1,400+ payroll providers in the US.

Founded just a few years ago, Pinwheel now executes 4.6M+ processes per month and has raised $80 million from GGV, First Round, Coatue, Primary, AmEx, Jackie Reses, and many more top industry investors.

We discuss:

Kurt’s serial entrepreneurship and why he considers himself constitutionally unemployable
The power of consumer payroll data and why Kurt is convinced payroll systems are one of the major frontiers of innovation in the fintech industry today.
Scaling a remote team. Pinwheel went from four employees pre-pandemic to almost 90 today. What did he learn in the process?
Lessons from years of fundraising and how a challenging equity raising environment could look like for entrepreneurs… and a lot more!

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April 05, 2022

Kurt Lin, Co-Founder/CEO of Pinwheel – Pushing the Frontiers of Fintech Innovation, How to Build an A+ Remote Team, & the Future of Credit Scoring

40 minutes

Send us a text

Kurt’s serial entrepreneurship and why he considers himself constitutionally unemployable
The power of consumer payroll data and why Kurt is convinced payroll systems are one of the major frontiers of innovation in the fintech industry today.
Scaling a remote team. Pinwheel went from four employees pre-pandemic to almost 90 today. What did he learn in the process?
Lessons from years of fundraising and how a challenging equity raising environment could look like for entrepreneurs… and a lot more!