After more than a decade of mixed success with tech startups, Immad Akhund decided to try something even harder: starting a bank.  Today, Mercury is valued at $3.5 billion and serves thousands of startups. But the road to get there was long and rocky. Immad shares how moving from Pakistan to the U.K. left him struggling to belong, how a string of failures nearly led him to leave entrepreneurship altogether, and what kept pulling him back. We also hear from the person who believed in him - rea...

Leap Forward

David Rusenko

Mercury: Immad Akhund & His Mom

MAR 25, 202642 MIN
Leap Forward

Mercury: Immad Akhund & His Mom

MAR 25, 202642 MIN

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After more than a decade of mixed success with tech startups, Immad Akhund decided to try something even harder: starting a bank.Today, Mercury is valued at $3.5 billion and serves thousands of startups. But the road to get there was long and rocky. Immad shares how moving from Pakistan to the U.K. left him struggling to belong, how a string of failures nearly led him to leave entrepreneurship altogether, and what kept pulling him back. We also hear from the person who believed in him - really believed in him - long before anyone else: his mom.