Caroline Plumb talks networks, playing devil’s advocate and Mongolian heritage
Guy’s guest, Caroline Plumb, is a serial entrepreneur and CEO who founded rapidly-scaling FinTech business, Fluidly, after experiencing first-hand the pain point of managing cash flow in a growing business. Fluidly was named one of 2018’s ‘Hot 10’ European FinTechs by the FinTech50, and featured in WIRED’s Top 100 Hottest European startups. Caroline’s first business, Freshminds, came into being just weeks after graduating from Cambridge, and in the intervening twenty years, she has - amongst an embarrassment of achievements - completed a stint as one of the Prime Minister’s Business Ambassadors representing the Professional Services sector, been appointed as a non-executive director to AIM-listed Mercia Technologies and awarded an OBE in the Queen’s 90th Birthday Honours List. Guy’s interview with Caroline is, as you would expect, full of invaluable advice and learnings, not to mention some quotes to live by - our favourite being “if two people always agree, one of them is unnecessary”, courtesy of William Wrigley (he of the chewing gum fame).