Maarja Pärt: "Owning up to my own mistakes is an important part of being an effective leader"

SBC Leaders - The people behind betting and gaming's biggest brands

Episode 4 of SBC Leaders is here! Our Global Relationships Director, Kelly Kehn, sits down with Maarja Pärt, CEO of leading crypto gaming firm The Coingaming Group, and gets her thoughts on growing with and beyond cryptocurrencies, creating and maintaining company culture, and what she’s learned since becoming one of the industry’s only female CEOs, and succeeding her mentor, Tim Heath in the role.

Maarja tells Kelly about her ‘Unicorn Farm’ and the role it plays in cultivating Coingaming’s famous culture of innovation, and gives some great insight on the leadership role of a CEO, including the importance of owning up to her own mistakes, learning from difficult situations in the past, and how your perspective changes when you realise the buck stops with you.

Time Stamps:
00:15 - Intro
01:45 - Coingaming’s growth and the growth of crypto
04:45 - Coingaming’s culture of innovation, and the unicorn farm!
11:25 - How Maarja keeps track of regulatory changes in crypto and igaming
15:30 - Maarja tells Kelly about some of the challenging experiences that have shaped her time as CEO
18:45 - Thoughts on leadership in the role of a CEO
21:50 - What it’s like being a female CEO in iGaming, thoughts on Maarja’s journey from CS agent to CEO
27:30 - What’s next for Coingaming?
29:20 - Outro

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