#35 Ned Phillips on scaling a FinTech and ultra-distance running.

Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful' podcast. I’m your host Mike Scott, co-Founder, and CEO of Nona Digital.This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products, and a better version of yourself.If you’d like to support us then please do give us a rating and review, you’ll be surprised at how much each one helps us. Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital. Building a FinTech business is difficult and building the software that enables that business,  that scales and that your users love is very difficult. In today's hyper-competitive environment, getting your software built right really matters, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next deal, and making the impact that you need to make. This is where Nona can help. With an excellent track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.We’re small enough so that you are always close to the principals but big enough to be able to deliver at the highest standards consistently without KPD’s.  We have deep expertise in FinTech, and particularly in Blockchain application development.So, if you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.Head over to our website to book a call directly with one of the principals. And now, on to the show…Today I’ve got Ned Phillips joining me who is one impressive guy.Ned has been around FinTech since before it was called Fintech. Back in the late 90’s ned was one of the first brokers at E-Trade and went on to become the managing director of the company.He was also part of the stock exchange transformation where he developed two pan-Asian exchanges.Ned experienced the dot-com boom with one of the original Fintech companies and consulted 8 securities when they launched the first Robo Advisor in Asia. This all led up to Ned’s current focus which is as the Founder and CEO of Bambu. Bambu is a global leader in the robo-advisory space working with some of the biggest names in FinTech and banking. Launched in 2016 they are a growing team of 80 people who have raised around $15m and are about to raise another $25m.They have also won a slew of Fintech and Startup awards including one particular award that we will speak about later in the show.They aim to be profitable in the next 6-12 months and have their sights set on becoming the global leaders in the space.Ned is also an impressive athlete choosing to put himself through some grueling ultra-endurance races which we’ll get into a little later.Welcome Ned, it’s great to have you on the show and I’m looking forward to the conversation.***Thanks for listening!If you have a FinTech project that you would like to accelerate with a partner that will take care of your design and development to allow you to focus on your area of genius, we’d love to help you.Head over to our website to book a call with one of our principles. And, another plug that we are actively hiring senior developers and we’re offering a very tasty reward for any successful referrals.I’ll be back next week with another episode to help you build better businesses, better fintech products, and a better you.