Building the Future of E-Commerce, Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla

This week’s podcast episode guest is Bolt Financial CEO Maju Kuruvilla. A former executive at Amazon, where he helped launch Amazon Fresh, Maju has taken over at Bolt to help build the future of e-commerce.

Searching for Mana is about finding future category leading tech firms in real-time. Almost every business goes through ups and downs, and the path to the top is never completely smooth.

Bolt has scaled to great heights already, but also faced challenges, competing against the likes of Amazon, Shopify and Alibaba to create the future of e-commerce.

Lloyd dives into Maju’s background, from helping the family business during his childhood in India, how this gave him perspective and shaped his leadership style, to becoming CEO at a leading FinTech player.

Inspired by the Ride of a Lifetime, by Bob Iger, evening walks, and with a love of building, Lloyd dives into Maju’s psychology.

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Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/2Hhg4gB​​
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[ 0:00 - 4:37 ] Size and Scale of Bolt

[ 4:38 - 10:09 ] Commerce 3.0: Taking on Amazon, Shopify

[ 10:10 - 13:46 ] Decentralised commerce & crypto

[ 13:47 - 21:43 ] Bolt: seamlessly managing the checkout experience

[ 21:44 - 25:57 ] Quick-fire round

[ 25:58 - 32:58 ] Walking, walking and more walking & Maju’s Mana

[ 32:59 - 39:10 ] Maju’s background and family shop

[ 39:11 - 47:45 ] Competitiveness, Maju’s winning mentality and causing fundamental change

[ 47:46 - 54:58 ] Helping merchants and providing solutions for the modern consumer

[ 54:59 - 59:18 ] The Hollywood outcome for Bolt


Searching for Mana is a UK-based podcast which focuses on tech innovation in finance, and features interviews with influencers, leaders and founders in the fintech space, from unicorn companies to financial disruptors. Previous guests have included the Director of Growth at Oaknorth, the CEO of BCB Group (the UK’s first licensed crypto bank), the CEO of Innovate Finance (the industry body for UK fintech) and Ed Vaizey, the UK’s longest serving Minister for Technology.
Each hour-long episode gains insight into how the guest got into fintech, what they’re currently focused on, what their companies are all about, as well as some of the important trends within the wider fintech sector.

The show is presented by Lloyd Wahed, a London-born tech entrepreneur who has founded two recruiting firms, Athelstan Search and Mana Search and has successfully helped scale a number of unicorn technology companies.

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