#4 Paulo Marques - CTO & Co-Founder Feedzai

Paulo Marques is CTO & Co-Founder of Feedzai - a company using machine learning to make banking and commerce safe by combining fraud prevention and anti-money laundering under one platform to manage financial crime. Feedzai is Portugal's newest unicorn raising a $200m Series D round in April and now looking to further grow internationally.

Paulo has always been fascinated by computers and the possibilities to create and simulate new things with them and at the same time he loves trying out every new thing he comes across and "living different lives within his life". So the jump from his research career to becoming an entrepreneur was probably inevitable. We talk about the difference between technology and product, running initial experiments as a company until the pivotal moment of finding product-market-fit and the first type of clients you need to discover after that. We learn how they keep the company at the top of its game by constantly asking what could put themselves out of business. After twelve years of building and growing Feedzai, Paulo's role today is as much about technical roadmaps as it is about the operating system of people - and it remains all about teaching, what he loved doing as a professor and what he does now with his employees. Talking about his alma mater we also learn how you can set up an extremely valuable win-win-relationship with your university even without any kind of contracts and negotiations. Join us on a rich conversation on everything from technology to business execution to the human factor - everything it takes to build an internationally successful product company.