Episode · Mar 19, 2025 · 34 min
From Zero to 100K Users in 8 Months: Vivid Money's Blueprint for Fintech Disruption with Alex Emeshev
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About this episode
In this episode, Alex Emeshev, co-founder of Vivid Money, reveals the growth strategies, product insights, and key lessons behind their success.
What you’ll learn:
- How Vivid’s cashback model fueled viral growth
- The marketing experiments that actually worked
- When to scale (and when to hold back)
- Why owning your tech stack is a game-changer
- The biggest fintech founder mistakes to avoid
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