The European payments FinTech is looking for a founding team to build a banking and financial layer for AI agents. And it’s not asking them to start from scratch: the team would get access to Mollie’s existing infrastructure, a budget and 350,000 customers from day one.
Mollie founder Adriaan Mol says the goal is to build an intelligence platform on top of the company’s banking infrastructure, what he describes as Mollie’s biggest bet yet. The €50 million equity package is tied to achieving specific milestones, with the team given full ownership of the project.
“We’re doing something unconventional recruiting a full team to build what we believe is Mollie’s biggest bet yet: an intelligence platform on top of our banking infrastructure, unlike anything the market has seen.” said Adriaan Mol. “We’re not looking for people who want a seat at a comfortable table. We want people who will grind relentlessly, work the hours it takes, and ship faster than feels comfortable because that’s what it actually takes to build something that wins. We give full ownership. Hit the milestones, and we’ve set aside a €50million equity package in Mollie for the team that does it.”
“There are multiple tiers, evaluated at set dates rather than paid out in fixed tranches. Hit the earlier tiers and you earn meaningful equity along the way; hit all of them and you earn the full €50M. The other side of that upside: if the team isn’t performing at an evaluation date, we’ll replace the team and bring in a new one to take the product forward. We want to be direct about that going in.” – the company explained.
The founder of “Connecting the dots in finance”, Marcel van Oost, commented: “Most companies post a job opening when they want to build something new. Mollie is offering €50 million in equity instead. It’s a pretty unconventional way to build a new business. But as AI agents move from answering questions to making purchases and handling transactions, the financial infrastructure they need could become a major opportunity. Mollie clearly doesn’t want to wait around to find out.”
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