Today’s guest is Yoni Assia, cofounder and CEO of eToro, the world’s largest social investment network. Yoni has raised over $412 million with eToro from ION group, SoftBank, Velvet Sea Ventures, Spark Capital and many more.
In 2020, his startup eToro launched the initiative the GoodDollar Project, a non-profit riff on UBI, or Universal Basic Income that gives out small amounts of digital currency – GoodDollars – to anyone who wants it. Anyone with a cell phone can receive real crypto free straight to their mobile phones.
Prior to founding eToro, Yoni was the cofounder of CDRIDE, an on-ride video technology company that was acquired by Kodak in 2006.
Yoni was included by Financial News in its prestigious Fintech 40 ranking and by City A.M. as a Fintech 100 top influencer and by Fortune business magazine’s 40 Under 40.
In this episode, we discuss how Yoni built his empire, getting dinner with Warren Buffet, how he scaled the world’s largest social investment network and much much more.
Yoni Assia – On the Story of eToro, Getting Dinner with Warren Buffet, and Why Startups Should Always Raise Enough Money For 18 Months
