Bernardas Preikšaitis runs InRento, a Bank of Lithuania-licensed crowdfunding platform that lets retail investors fund real estate projects across eight EU markets. With eight employees, InRento did €2.9M in revenue and nearly €1M in profit last year...
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Bernardas Preikšaitis runs InRento, a Bank of Lithuania-licensed crowdfunding platform that lets retail investors fund real estate projects across eight EU markets. With eight employees, InRento did €2.9M in revenue and nearly €1M in profit last year, and is on track to double revenue in 2026 with only three new hires.
Bernardas explains how an in-house back office, Claude as “employee of the year,” EU crowdfunding passporting, and fixed-fee external law firms let a team of eight outperform compliance departments 100x its size, plus Swiss-knife hiring and zero-defaults discipline.
What
• How 5 people generated €2.9M revenue and €980K profit, scaling to 8 for 2x growth
• Why InRento built its own CRM and operating ecosystem instead of outsourcing
• How Claude became “employee of the year” and lets one person do four people's work
• How EU crowdfunding passporting unlocks 8 markets from one Lithuanian license
• The fixed-fee law-firm model that beats hiring a 20%-utilized in-house lawyer
Links:
• Bernardas Preikšaitis on LinkedIn
• InRento
• Small Team Big Scale Podcast
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