The Scalepoint Podcast · 2025-06-09 · 32 min
In this episode of The Scale Point Podcast , Martin is joined by José Manuel Peral Cortés, co-founder of FinTK Consulting. José reflects candidly on his entrepreneurial journey - starting with Easy Payment Gateway, which he helped build from scratch and eventually exited to Global Payments. From bootstrapping and building early product-market fit, to navigating investor misalignment and watching competitors outpace on valuation and visibility, José offers hard-won insights into what it really takes to grow and exit a fintech startup in Europe. He recounts building one of the earliest orchestration platforms before “orchestration” was even part of the industry’s vocabulary - serving high-risk merchants and solving for complex routing and integration challenges that many didn’t yet know they had. “We were too early. Back in 2012, no one in Europe was talking about orchestration - except maybe gambling and forex companies. They had the pain and they understood it.
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