Mike Minett: Portabl for gig workers

Scouting for Growth

Sabine VdL

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Mike Minett, CEO or Chief Ideas Guy at Portabl. Portable is a platform and community which provides insurance, benefits, and savings products for freelance and self-employed professionals. On this podcast they cover: Why Mike decided to move from consulting to building an InsurTech focused on the future of work, what Portabl’s focus and core proposition is, what is required to build a gig economy focused startup and a little bit of ESG and the Future of Tech.

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0:00.0	The Welcome to Scouting for Growth. Today I'm meeting with Mike Minnet's CEO and Chief Idea Guy at Portable.
0:26.0	Portable is a platform and a community which provides insurance benefits savings
0:32.0	to freelancers and self-employed professionals.
0:35.0	Portable wraps this all up into a monthly membership
0:41.0	where good services and products are bundled, also tailored for individuals and their family members to enable them to serve the industry, their focus on.
0:54.4	Portable members save time, money and stress
0:57.7	at the click of a button by leveraging the platform.
1:01.0	On this podcast, we will cover why Mike decided to move from consulting to building and
1:06.7	ensure tech focused on the future of work.
1:09.7	What is Sportables What is required to build a gig economy focused startup? And we will also touch upon ES.S.G. and the future of tech. So let's get started. Hi, my my, how are you today?
1:37.0	Great Sabine, got that Friday feeling.
1:40.0	Thank you for having me.
1:42.0	A pleasure.
1:43.0	So, you know, I was reading your LinkedIn profile and I can see you have set up portable over three years ago.
1:51.0	So can you tell us a little bit more about this project because you come from the
1:56.4	consulting world as well, I think.
1:59.7	Yes, yes, look, three years. It feels like yesterday on the one hand, on the other hand it also feels like 10 years and I think that's that's the fear of startups and the whole concept you need to be doing more faster, doing more faster, you're constantly watching the clock.
2:15.3	I think we've been on a journey, it's fair to say that.
2:17.8	We exploded out of the gates and got some opportunity in the US that was probably too big for us where we were at in our stage of journey and then made the decision to come back and technically build and
2:37.0	we got a little bit of COVID interaction as part of that. We were due to close our first round of funding in March 2020
2:40.0	and of course March 2020 never happened so things sort of fell apart at that point
2:48.3	but interestingly portable and our proposition to sort of better serve and support the independent freelance and gig world of work
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