Fintech Leaders

How Navan Built a $7Bn Fintech Inside a Travel Company, with President Michael Sindicich

a16z’s David Haber: Recording Every Meeting, Firm Over Fund & Why Fund Size Equals Conviction

The fintech landscape is shifting from financial product-led companies to software-led models that solve complex operational inefficiencies within large institutions. While the first wave of consumer-facing fintech has largely matured, significant opportunities remain in automating labor-intensive processes like loan s...

Nubank’s Co-Founder on Winning 140M Customers & Expanding to the US

Taktile’s CEO Raised $190M Betting Most Bank Jobs Won't Exist in 10 Years

Harshil Mathur, Razorpay CEO: Building India's Dominant Payments Company

Kaspi, How One App Took Over an Entire Country. CEO Mikhail Lomtadze

Rain, Farooq Malik - The $2Bn Company Building the Infrastructure for Stablecoins and Tokenized Money

How Slash Grew From $10 to $300 Million in 2+ Years. Victor Cardenas, CEO & Co-Founder of Slash

Max Levchin - Building Affirm, PayPal, and Why He Only Starts Network Businesses

Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal and CEO of Affirm, details his approach to building resilient, network-driven fintech businesses. Central to Affirm’s success is a commitment to transparency, specifically the elimination of late fees and compounding interest, which forces superior underwriting and builds long-term con...

Rob Heyvaert, Motive Partners Founder: Investing Billions to Build the Future of Finance

Renaud Laplanche on Building Upgrade to a $7.3Bn Giant, Reinventing the Credit Card, and Shipping AI-Native Products

The Trader Who Builds Billion-Dollar Companies: Tom Sosnoff on Thinkorswim, Tasty, and What Comes Next

Is Finance Technology? How Founders Can Avoid the Mistakes That Kill Fintech Companies

Building Africa's Leading Fintech as a Publicly Traded Company - Lesaka's Ali Mazanderani

Sequoia's George Robson: An Inside Look at Sequoia and What it Takes to Build Generational Companies

Michael Calvey: The Investor Behind Multiple $20+ Billion Companies

Why Zero Hash Rejected a $2Bn Offer to Build the Future of Financial Infrastructure - Edward Woodford, CEO

Uzum, from 0 to $1.5Bn in Four Years. Building Uzbekistan's First Tech Unicorn. Nikolay Seleznev, Co-Founder

How Deel Built a $17 Billion Company in 7 Years - Dan Westgarth, COO

FinTech's Multi-Billion Comeback: Steve McLaughlin (FT Partners), From Darkest Days to Record Deals

In this episode of Fintech Leaders, Miguel Armaza interviews Steve McLaughlin, founder and CEO of FT Partners, about the current state and future of the Fintech market. McLaughlin shares his insights on the dramatic recovery of Fintech, the impact of tokenization, and the transformative role of AI in reshaping financia...