Driven by financial inclusion, Islamic fintech HelloGold still determined to crack Africa after being burned at first try
Robin Lee admits he is no longer a sound sleeper. He will often awake with a start in the dead of night, wondering how, after an impressive career in blue-chip finance, he is now an entrepreneur, running a small fintech start-up in Kuala Lumpur.
Having enjoyed the stability that comes from working for employers such as KPMG, Boston Consulting and the World Gold Council in a career that began in 1991, he now contends with the uncertainties of running HelloGold, the digital gold trading platform he founded with fellow Malaysian Ridwan Abdullah nearly four years ago.
“We’ve had some peaks but we’ve also had a lot of troughs along the way. When you pull yourself out of the troughs you have to learn to enjoy the peaks a bit more,” he told Salaam Gateway.
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