Start with your childhood story not your resume

Arjan Schutte is the founder and managing partner at Core Innovation Capital, a venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs build disruptive, high-growth FinTech businesses. Arjan shares insights on solving public sector problems using marketplace solutions. He is keen on ideas that can create social impact alongside providing competitive financial returns.

• Good intentions don’t automatically translate into meaningful impact.
• Solve one problem that you have the best chance of solving.
• An entrepreneur’s early-life story and the cocurricular activities they engaged in are incredibly telling of their character.
• Non-profit: Compton Community Development Corporation