Kaarel Kotkas is the founder of Estonian identification startup Veriff — a company he started when he was 20. He’s since built a solid team to help him scale the company and hit the not-so-mythical-anymore unicorn status. I sat down with him at Money 2020 in Amsterdam to get some advice for building an executive team.
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