Egem Eraslan’s resumé isn’t typical of a fintech founder. The CEO of Turkish investment app Midas, which last month closed the largest fintech funding round in the country’s history, didn’t get his entrepreneurial start in banking, tech or any other adjacent industry. Instead he got it running a school.
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