Sep 26, 2024
Louis Chatriot is CEO of Alma, fintech leader in France of BNPL,
having raised Series C by top investors (Northzone, Headline
etc.)
This episode is in French.
Louis is CEO at Alma, the fintech leader in France of BNPL. Louis
talks about his background at Ecole Polytechnique and
Stanford, meeting his cofounder, key painpoints and triggers
in BNPL, and technical tech stack at Alma (details below). Prior to
founding Alma, Louis was former GM of Stripe in Italy.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaux-wehr-12789870/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-abraham/
In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk with Louis
Chatriot about:
1) The beginnings of Alma and core founder traits
- his background at Ecole Polytechnique//Stanford
- Alma's 'earned secret' of becoming a leader in a sector which is
inherently less 'sexy' (9'00)
- how Louis met his cofounder & key traits in founders
(12'00)
- the importance of being a good salesperson (23'00)
2) Alma's value proposition and positioning within fintech
- triggers of debt and overspending (30'00)
- fraud prevention and modelling fraud scores (40'00)
3) Alma's techstack
- Supervised learning and classification for insurance and fraud
prevention (46'00)
- Data drift (48'00)
- Databases (61'00): PostGres vs MongoDB
- Techstack (67'00): React, Python, Java pros and cons
4) Three favourite books and startups
Listen to find out more