In this episode, I talk to Ante Spittler, Co-Founder and CEO of Moss.

Ante went from quitting his well-paying job in consulting and founding his first successful business to facing bankruptcy.

But instead of giving up, he went all in again and today has built up one of the leading financial management companies for SMEs that has been backed by some of the most renowned global investors and is currently valued at 500M€. 

We talk about:

• how to find your passion project and successfully take the leap from a corporate employee to a founder
• how to rebound successfully after hitting rock bottom with your business or innovation project
• and how to build incredibly successful, disruptive businesses from scratch in the absence of any blueprint

Plus, we talk about his #1 learnings as a founder and the finance industry's future.

Ante Spittler: linkedin.com/in/ante-spittler-241654116

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Timeline:

0:00 - Introduction

0:56 - Who is Ante Spittler

1:23 - Topics covered in the episode

2:05 - Why Ante decided to quit his job to found his own company and how did it make him feel

5:01 - How to identify the right business opportunity to pursue

7:16 - Ante shares his most important cultural factors in a business

9:06 - How do you find the right people to build a business with

12:43 - How Ante dealt with insolvency and came back to build an even more successful company

14:49 - Looking back could Ante have identified the unit economics problem upfront

18:20 - How did Ante deal with closing down the business

22:03 - How Ante, as a leader, communicated the failure to his employees

23:28 - Why Ante doesn’t want to do consumer business anymore

25:21 - How to find founder-product fit

28:10 - What Ante’s company Moss does and what were the major challenges

30:15 - How did Moss overcome the challenges and what were the major learnings

35:25 - The one piece of advice from Ante for corporate innovators and founders

38:53 - What will the future of the financial industry look like