Author: Lela Diaz

Growth in fintech is often equated with urgency—raise fast, build faster, scale at any cost. But Sabeer Nelli, the founder and CEO of Zil Money, has proven that scaling a product doesn’t require compromising the very values that made it successful in the first place. He didn’t follow the typical venture-fueled script. He didn’t race to integrate every trending feature. He didn’t put vanity metrics above platform integrity. Instead, he chose to grow deliberately—anchored in product quality, customer trust, and a commitment to building tools that remove stress, not add to it. That mindset hasn’t just worked. It’s helped Zil…