Why Good Products Fail: Fintech Founder Talk + Startup Pitch Practice | Unicorn Embassy Yerevan
A fintech founder talk, then startup pitch practice: teams pitch on stage and get questions from the jury and the room. We finish with networking and an after-party. In English, free entry.
What did building in Iraq, Nigeria and Turkey teach a fintech founder? Some of Hassan Zanjani's startups worked, some didn't. One shipped a good product and still struggled to find traction. Today he is a co-founder of walllet.com, a fintech with 100,000+ users.
He'll talk about why good products fail and how a fintech really runs, from product and regulation to team problems. Plus the AI tools his team uses every day. Bring your questions and your own founder struggles.
Program
17:00 Arrivals and intros
17:30 Founder talk and Q&A · Hassan Zanjani
18:30 Networking break
18:50 Startup pitch practice
19:40 Open networking
20:30 After-party and dinner
Speaker
Hassan Zanjani, co-founder and Growth Lead of walllet.com, a fintech startup simplifying cross-border payments. 10+ years in product, growth and entrepreneurship: he has helped build and scale tech companies across emerging markets such as Iraq, Nigeria and Turkey. Earlier, Senior Product Manager at Divar (40M+ users), where he ran an AI-focused engineering team of 14.
Startup pitch practice
Building a startup? Practice your pitch in front of a live room: five minutes on stage, then five minutes of questions from the jury and the room. Up to five teams. To apply, pick "Yes" under "Want to pitch?" in the registration form and add a link to your project by Thursday, 12 November. We'll confirm on Telegram by Friday, 13 November.
Showing your startup at Digitec on 20-22 November? Rehearse your pitch here first.
Your host
Serafim Prokofev, Community Lead of Unicorn Embassy in Yerevan. Founder and CEO of Prokofev Studio, which builds websites and apps with AI integration.
Organized by Unicorn Embassy
A global community of entrepreneurs, founders, investors and people building businesses in tech. Since 2023: 200+ events, 165+ startups pitched, 6,500+ people at our meetups in 9 cities across 7 countries.
Ask questions and meet other attendees in our Telegram chat: @unicornembassy_yerevan
Venue
Letters and Numbers, a coworking space and coffee shop, 35G Tumanyan St, Yerevan.