Spend Management and the Wave of Change in Fintech with Thejo Kote

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🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Thejo Kote is the co-founder and CEO of Airbase, the leading spend management platform for small and midsize companies. Founded in 2017, Airbase raised over $30m from Bain Capital Ventures and First Round Capital. his first company, Automatic, was acquired by Sirius XM for over $100m.

Top 3 Value Bombs:

1. Identify problems that you are passionate to work on even if nobody paid you. it makes it a lot easier. You have to be enjoying the work that you do for it to be worth it, otherwise you’ll give up quickly and move on.

2. Be in a position where you are objectively building a good business where you don’t need anybody else to fund you and be very disciplined about that process.

3. Sometimes you just have to observe. Keep your eyes and ears open to opportunities and pain points as they come.

Spend management done right. Three products. One platform - AirBase

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0:00.0	Who's ready to rock today Fire Nation?
0:04.6	JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast
0:09.7	network with great shows like Being Boss.
0:12.8	Today we'll be talking about spend management and the wave of change in FinTech to drop these
0:18.7	value bombs.
0:19.7	I have brought Fajjo, CoTay and DeEo Fire Studios.
0:23.2	Fajjo is the co-founder and CEO of Airbase, the leading spend management platform for
0:28.9	small and mid-sized companies founded in 2017 Airbase raised over $30 million from
0:35.7	Bane Capital Ventures and first round capital.
0:39.0	His first company, Automatic, was acquired by Sirius XM for over $100 million.
0:44.6	Today Fire Nation we will be talking about FinTech spend management and so much more when
0:49.2	we get back from thinking our sponsors.
0:52.2	Easy to start and build to customize, Thinkific enables thousands of entrepreneurs to run
0:56.2	their training remotely.
1:06.2	Fajjo, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming
1:34.1	successful that most people disagree with.
1:44.1	Fajjo, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe that you
2:07.4	should have a good connection with your sponsor because of growing benefits.
2:34.6	mentality. I mean, there are a lot of ways to make money fire nation. Why not have the way you make money
2:41.0	being by doing something that you love? Now, I think you have a fascinating journey, Thaegyo.
2:47.2	So let's start with your backstory and then catch us up to where you are now today.
2:52.2	Right now in the United States in the San Francisco Bay area, but you know, I got here
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