The boss of Tide, a British fintech which offers banking services to SMEs, says he is not one for showing off.
“I am quite a humble person, maybe too humble to be in our industry,” says Oliver Prill, its CEO, speaking over video.
You are unlikely to get a “war story” about Tide’s latest funding round from Prill, who says that Tide’s recent elevation to unicorn status was an achievement he “personally didn’t need”.
This might make the 55-year-old UCL economics graduate sound dour, a party pooper even, but it’s more that he talks in facts, not hyperbole.
“I am a very straight talker. I am never impolite, but I am to the point; maybe it’s a bit my German heritage,” the Hamburg-born Prill says.
