EP27 Vivi Friedgut on EdTech, Persistence and The Power of Money

Happy International Women's Day to all you lovely listeners and supporters. Thanks for sharing and celebrating women's voices with us every week! #IWD2020 My brilliant guest this week is Vivi Friedgut, founder and CEO at Blackbullion, an EdTech company providing financial literacy to students. Vivi founded Blackbullion in 2014 and since launching their digital platform, Blackbullion has partnered with 30 universities globally and is able to reach 500,000 students worldwide. In this episode, Vivi tells us how she started Blackbullion with a sustainable and profitable business model, which she developed into a technology company in order to scale. Vivi tells us about her experience of raising money (she hates it!) and why she made that decision (so Blackbullion can run instead of speed walk). Vivi tell us that you win in business by being the fastest or the last person standing, that persistence has been essential and that your role as CEO is to continually make yourself redundant through self-development and evolution. And in the words of Vivi’s dad, “until you made a dollar, you’ve got a hobby and not a business”. I hope you enjoy this episode! Join in the conversation online using #THEWOTPOD on Twitter https://twitter.com/TheWotPod and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thewotpod/. This episode of Women On Top is sponsored by Bamboo PR, a brilliant London-based technology PR and marketing agency. To find out more information and to receive your free PR eBook visit bamboopr.co.uk/thewotpod/. Chapters: 00:00 Episode Taster 02:35 Chapter 1: Money is at its most powerful when it buys you freedom and choice 07:43 Chapter 2: I had no preconceived ideas of what the business would look like 15:24 Chapter 3: Raising money 22:52 Chapter 4: Getting out of a funk — do you want to walk away? 29:00 Chapter 5: Building a business with social impact Find out more about Vivi Friedgut and Blackbullion: https://www.blackbullion.com https://twitter.com/blackbullion https://www.instagram.com/blackbullion/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/blackbullion https://twitter.com/ViviFriedgut Connect with your host, Frankie Cotton: https://frankiecotton.com https://twitter.com/FrankieCotton_ https://www.instagram.com/frankiecotton_/ Women On Top is a Let’s Be Frank Ltd. production.