S1|E4 — Mike Forster - Founding team at Onfido, on how charging customers more makes a startup stronger, understanding big brand marketing, and angel investing at the bottom of the world

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S1 | E4 — Mike Forster, Founding Team at Onfido, on how charging customers more makes a startup stronger, understanding big brand marketing, and angel investing at the bottom of the world

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S1 | E4 — Mike Forster, Founding Team at Onfido, on how charging customers more makes a startup stronger, understanding big brand marketing, and angel investing at the bottom of the world

Diaspora.nz

Dec 04, 2017

Today we catch up with Mike Forster, Marketing Director at Yum brands in Sydney, and previously co-founder of the red-hot UK Fintech startup Onfido.

Onfido now a dominant player in the identity space having raised over $60m USD. In this episode David and Mike chat about lessons learned the hard way and what Mike calls street fighting your way to series A, how the marketing landscape is evolving with big data, plus what Mike really looks for in Angel investments.

Huge thank you to Dave Insull for the intro that made this episode possible, and we hope you get a lot out of this episode with an exceptional Kiwi expat.

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Around 20% of New Zealanders live outside of New Zealand. This is our “Diaspora” — and it’s one of the world’s largest, per capita.

Not only is it large, it's insanely talented… early in their lives and careers, many of New Zealand’s most ambitious individuals realise— if they want to make a dent in the universe, they need to get out there… to study abroad, get the experience, build relationships to help them win on a global stage.

Today, those estimated ~1M expats include some of our finest talent. They are founders, top operators/execs at industry leading companies. They are scientists and researchers working at the frontiers of science: artificial intelligence, synthetic biology; global leaders in business, culture, and society… entrenched in all corners of the world, walks of live… largely “heads down”, doing their thing.

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