Trajectories
# 19 - Olivier GOY
Description of the episode
I have been working in the corporate finance ecosystem for a little over 10 years. The person I want to introduce to you today is a real reference for me. At just 26 years old, he created a management company with the objective of democratizing investment in the unlisted. First blow, timing problem: bursting of the internet bubble! You have to review the business and take difficult measures by separating from some of the employees. The years go by and finally, after 4 years of hard work, the activity is finally taking hold and 123 Investment Manager is developing more and more quickly, taking a place as a major player in the unlisted sector. 14 years later, midlife crisis 🙂? While his company is doing extremely well with more than 1 billion under management, this entrepreneur decides to embark on a whole new adventure: crowdfunding in loans, or crowdlending. From a blank sheet of paper, he launched Lendix in 2014 which will change its name and become October, today the number 1 business lending platform in Europe. You may have recognized it, in this new episode we address the brilliant trajectory of Olivier Goy, who shares his story with us, from childhood to his passions, including his vision of the company and the entrepreneurship. "To undertake: it is to register in the long term, to undertake it is a hygiene of life, to undertake, it is to make concessions" I do not tell you more: It is the story of a great man of #Fintech: Olivier Goy - His nugget of the moment: https://fr.october.eu/ - His first entrepreneurial adventure of which he is still the main shareholder: https://123-im.com/ - The foundation that 'he created with his wife Virginie that I recommend that you go see and support: https://www.fondationphoto4food.com/

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