Failure to code led to success in tech, Marieke Flament, CEO NEAR foundation

Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed · Jun 7, 2022 · 51m

As CEO of the NEAR protocol foundation, Marieke Flament is currently one of the most successful

female leaders working in fintech. But it took some convincing for her to give up an established,

super successful corporate career; she was even told she was ‘full on crazy’ for considering it. As she

tells presenter Lloyd Wahed in this episode, she defied her critics to join Circle in 2015 where she

stayed until being inspired by another female CEO to move to banking app Mettle.

The trajectory to the top hasn’t been smooth: admitted into one of France’s Grandes Ecoles to study

computer science…