ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Geert Van Kerckhoven, CEO and co-founder of Oper Credits, told his company its share price would be zero in three years unless it went AI-native. He and James Barker talk about faster bank sales cycles, betting the business on an AI agent called Herman, and why he'd hire slowly. Roughly 95% of Oper's code is now written by AI agents, and Geert thinks the CEO will be replaced before the account executive.
What you'll get out of it- Why he told his whole company their share price would be zero in three years if they didn't act
- How Herman took Oper from slow, once-in-a-while enterprise deals to three-to-four-month sales cycles
- Why the cost of building software has fallen 10x and is heading for 100x, and what that does to build versus buy
- How roughly 95% of Oper's code is now written by AI agents
- Why he thinks the CEO will be replaced before the account executive
- Why most companies are taking a Ferrari to the bakery with their AI token spend
- The one hiring rule he'd give any new founder
Fintech HiveMind is made by GTM Hive: conversations with the founders, CEOs and revenue leaders building technology companies that sell into regulated markets. More Fintech HiveMind episodes.
This series is sponsored by VC Innovations, who run the FTT Fintech Festival and the Future Identity Festival in London on 9 and 10 November. Find out more about the FTT Fintech Festival and Future Identity Festival.
