Building a purpose-driven company (and culture) with Shivani Siroya

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

When Shivani Siroya founded Tala, she had a simple mission: To help overcome the barrier to accessing credit lines that people in developing economies face. Enter Tala, a finance and technology company that provides microloans and other financial services via its mobile app to people in countries like Kenya, Mexico, and the Philippines. And with billions of people around the world without a readily accessible “financial identity,” Tala has quickly grown from a small team of 4 to an international company with more than 500 employees. In this episode, Girlboss COO Neha Gandhi chats with Siroya about how she scaled Tala into an international team who work with a shared sense of purpose. You'll learn why Tala gives out “peer bonuses,” why competition is a good thing, and why a little obsession readies you for success.To learn more about Tala, go to--> https://tala.co/ Keep up to date with Shivani Siroya on Twitter by following her at --> https://twitter.com/shivsiroya

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Naha Gandhi, CEO of Girl Boss, and your host for this week's episode of Girl Boss Radio.
0:06.0	I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you probably have a debit card, and maybe even a credit card.
0:12.0	Maybe you've taken out loans in the past for school, for a car,
0:16.8	for a house, or maybe you've got a mortgage. And because of all that, you have some sort of financial identity.
0:25.0	As in, you can go to a bank and ask for a loan and they'll be able to help you
0:29.5	because they have some idea of how you spend your money and how you repay your money.
0:34.8	But around the world there are billions of people who don't have any sort of credit history or financial identity.
0:40.8	And it can be a huge problem with a lot of financial consequences.
0:45.0	To help solve this problem in 2011,
0:48.0	Chavani Soroya founded a financial tech company called Tallah.
0:52.0	Tallah is a mobile consumer lending app that provides
0:55.0	financial services for people in East Africa, India, the Philippines, and Mexico.
1:01.0	It also provides microloans via its smartphone lending app to people in underserved
1:06.9	and emerging markets.
1:09.1	Shivani says she felt compelled to close the gap in access to financial services when she noticed how people
1:14.8	couldn't get access to a loan in many underserved countries around the world.
1:18.9	To solve this, we're going to actually have to take a totally different approach than just someone who believes
1:25.1	in the customer.
1:26.1	I actually knew I needed to actually build real data systems, real data to prove once and for all that this population was credit worthy and
1:36.2	had very high potential.
1:39.4	Welcome to Girl Boss Radio, the show Four and About Ambitious Women,
1:47.0	exploring the wins, losses, and insights learned on the winding road to success.
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