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Fintech Leaders

Miguel Armaza

Learn from today’s global leaders building the organizations that will dominate the 21st century in fintech, business, and beyond.

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211 episodes

  1. How Navan Built a $7Bn Fintech Inside a Travel Company, with President Michael Sindicich 1:06:25
  2. a16z’s David Haber: Recording Every Meeting, Firm Over Fund & Why Fund Size Equals Conviction 57:13
  3. Nubank’s Co-Founder on Winning 140M Customers & Expanding to the US 50:43
  4. Taktile’s CEO Raised $190M Betting Most Bank Jobs Won't Exist in 10 Years 55:07
  5. Harshil Mathur, Razorpay CEO: Building India's Dominant Payments Company 58:44
  6. Mikhail Lomtadze, Kaspi CEO - From Super App to Everyday AI Assistant 48:47
  7. Rain, Farooq Malik - The $2Bn Company Building the Infrastructure for Stablecoins and Tokenized Money 58:03
  8. How Slash Grew From $10 to $300 Million in 2+ Years. Victor Cardenas, CEO & Co-Founder of Slash 52:00
  9. Max Levchin - Building Affirm, PayPal, and Why He Only Starts Network Businesses 55:03
  10. Rob Heyvaert, Motive Partners Founder: Investing Billions to Build the Future of Finance 53:20
  11. Renaud Laplanche on Building Upgrade to a $7.3Bn Giant, Reinventing the Credit Card, and Shipping AI-Native Products 41:24
  12. The Trader Who Builds Billion-Dollar Companies: Tom Sosnoff on Thinkorswim, Tasty, and What Comes Next 59:59
  13. Is Finance Technology? How Founders Can Avoid the Mistakes That Kill Fintech Companies 44:29
  14. Lesaka - Building Africa's Leading Fintech as a Publicly Traded Company, with Ali Mazanderani 50:47
  15. Sequoia's George Robson: An Inside Look at Sequoia and What it Takes to Build Generational Companies 47:46
  16. Michael Calvey: The Investor Behind Multiple $20+ Billion Companies 1:07:59
  17. Why Zero Hash Rejected a $2Bn Offer to Build the Future of Financial Infrastructure - Edward Woodford, CEO 37:22
  18. Uzum, from 0 to $1.5Bn in Four Years. Building Uzbekistan's First Tech Unicorn. Nikolay Seleznev, Co-Founder 38:03
  19. How Deel Built a $17 Billion Company in 7 Years - Dan Westgarth, COO 38:48
  20. FinTech's Multi-Billion Comeback: Steve McLaughlin (FT Partners), From Darkest Days to Record Deals 30:30
  21. How René Lacerte Built Bill.com into a Multi-Billion FinTech Powerhouse that Processes 1% of US GDP Annually 53:28
  22. Nigel Morris, Capital One & QED Co-Founder - Transforming Financial Services for a Billion People 46:08
  23. Valon's CEO Sold $100M Without a Sales Team. Now They're Building a Multi-Billion Mortgage Platform 50:34
  24. How Addi Reached $200M ARR with Better Margins Than Nubank, Affirm, and Klarna 43:15
  25. Clair CEO - From Swiss Fencing Champion to Fintech Founder 33:04
  26. 50 Years Of VC: Lessons From Howard Morgan and Alan Patricof 30:08
  27. The Brex Growth Strategy: From Startup to Multibillion Fintech 49:05
  28. Shift4 CEO on Building an $8B Empire 45:12
  29. From Zero to $120M: How Cashea Rebuilt Credit And Trust in Venezuela 38:24
  30. Steve Stagner on Building Crete's $500 Million AI Roll-up to Modernize Accounting 37:31
  31. Jack Zhang, Airwallex CEO - A $6 Billion Powerhouse Solving Global Payments for Companies 36:43
  32. Eynat Guez, Papaya Global CEO - From 1,000 Rejections to $34 Billion in Annual Payments 41:31
  33. Chen Amit, Tipalti CEO - A $100 Billion Opportunity, Why 'Once-in-a-Decade' Crises Now Happen Every 6 Months, Achieving 99% Revenue Retention 45:19
  34. Anré Williams, American Express – From Intern to Bank CEO, a 35-Year Journey at a Global Powerhouse 42:26
  35. Eduardo Chedid, CEO of PicPay: 60M Users, $1B Revenue, From Brazil’s Digital Wallet to a Banking Giant 57:45
  36. Yoshi Yokokawa, CEO of Alpaca – 5 Million Accounts in 40 Countries, A Vision for Borderless Investing, Decision Frameworks & The API Sandwich Strategy 36:15
  37. Daniel Vogel, CEO of Bitso – Serving 12 Million Customers and Building a Crypto Giant Through Innovation, Transparency, and a Curious Mind 50:10
  38. Bam Azizi, CEO of Mesh Connect - From Credit Card Debt to $130M, Building the Rails for a $37T Market, Executing a Wild Pivot 34:57
  39. Johnny Ayers, CEO of Socure - Building a Giant that Protects Billions of Identities, and How to Turn a Crisis into an Advantage 42:19
  40. Shensi Ding, Merge Co-Founder - Lessons for First-Time Founders, $75M to build API Infrastructure in an AI World, The Truth About Fundraising 30:10
  41. David Magerman, Differential Ventures - How to Fix the Internet, Risks of GenAI, Pioneering Quant Trading 45:41
  42. Ryan Graciano, Credit Karma Co-Founder - Scaling to 140 Million Users, Turning Crisis into Opportunity, Leading Product Innovation From CTO to CPO 43:35
  43. Jackie Reses, Lead Bank CEO - Lessons from Tech Titans, Why Regulators Might Finally Be Ready for AI, Building Modern Financial Rails 41:59
  44. John Waldmann, CEO of Homebase - Serving 3.8M SMB Workers, Why AI Will Create More Small Business Owners, Importance of High-Velocity Decision Making 37:19
  45. Howard Lindzon: The Rise of the Degenerate Economy, Why Markets Are Rigged, Web2 Failed, and It’s still a Great Time to Invest 47:52
  46. Ali Hamed, Founder of Treville - From Cold Emails to $2B AUM, How Michael Ovitz Taught Ali to Move Mountains, Rejecting Work-Life Balance 48:43
  47. Savneet Singh, CEO of PAR Technology - The $3B Turnaround: Transforming a Failing Company into a Tech Leader 38:14
  48. Best of 2024 - From the Leaders of Kaspi, Xero, dLocal, Addepar, QED, Zip, and Airwallex 36:20
  49. Adam Nash, CEO of Daffy – The Future of Charitable Giving, Lessons for CEOs, & Staying Bullish on Consumer Fintech 42:52
  50. Daragh Murphy, CEO of Imprint - $200M to Disrupt Co-Branded Credit Cards with a Customer-First Approach 38:35