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The Fintech Blueprint — 206 episodes
How zerohash won Morgan Stanley's crypto business
Building the AI Distribution Layer for 5000+ Banks, with Fiserv Co-Head of Financial Solutions Srini Krish
How Perplexity's Computer Is Replacing the Family Office, with Perplexity Finance’s Jeff Grimes
Inside the $1B-a-Day Stablecoin Market Maker for 1,500 Institutions, with B2C2's Cactus Raazi
How Marqeta Built the $400B Modern Card Issuing Platform, with CEO Mike Milotich
The $6B Decentralized AI Network, with Yuma CRO Evan Malanga
Inside Mercury's $650M Revenue Machine, with CEO Immad Akhund
How Polygon Became the Payments Chain Moving $2.3T in Stablecoins, with CEO Marc Boiron
Building Privacy Infrastructure for 35+ Global Financial Institutions, with Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski
How Alpaca built the API brokerage for 300+ global fintechs across 45 Countries, with CEO Yoshi Yokokawa
Building the $3B Ethereum Treasury Company, with SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom
The Quiet Fintech Behind $85 Billion in Transactions, with Payoneer CEO John Caplan
Building DeFi's $25B Liquidity Engine, with Curve Founder Michael Egorov
Building a Top 5 Global Crypto Exchange with 120M Users, with Bitget CEO Gracy Chen
From $12.5M ICO to $100B+ in On-Chain Infrastructure, with Gnosis Co-Founder Friederike Ernst
Building the $500MM+ Binance-based Digital Asset Treasury, with BNB Network CEO David Namdar
How WalletConnect Became the $400B Web3 Connectivity Layer, with CEO Jess Houlgrave
How Tandems/SigFig became a $60B Wealth AI platform, with CEO Mike Sha
Managing $2B+ in On Chain Assets, with KPK Co-Founder Marcelo Ruiz de Olano
Building the $130B global payments platform, with Airwallex’s Ravi Adusumilli
How to Invest in the best Crypto Funds, with Matthew Le Merle CEO of Blockchain Coinvestors
How the Central Bank of Brazil built Pix, powering 6 billion monthly transactions
Building the €8 Billion neobank, with Bunq CEO Ali Niknam
Growing to $45B in volume on Zerohash crypto infra, with CEO Edward Woodford
Tokenizing $3.6T of real world assets on Canton Network, with CEO Yuval Rooz
Forty Billion Reasons to Trust the Future of DeFi, with Aave Founder Stani Kulechov
Inside the Platform Powering +$171B in Private Capital, with AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli
400 Startups Building the Post-Web Economy, with Outlier Ventures Founder Jamie Burke
The $500MM Startup Making Payroll Painless, with Gusto Co-Founder Joshua Reeves
Reinventing Traditional Services through Modern Platforms, with David Snider CEO of Harness Wealth
How Metronome is Building the Revenue Engine for AI, with CEO Scott Woody
Building a Trustless Supercomputer for Web3 and AI, with Arweave's Founder Sam Williams
The Virtual Card Revolution Powering $7 Billion in Transactions, with Extend CEO Andrew Jamison
How Sei is Breaking Ethereum's Limits with Co-Founder Jayendra Jog
Protecting 2,700 Customers Across 100 Million Transactions, with Socure's CTO Arun Kumar
Curve’s Big Bet Reinventing Payments and Wallets, with CEO Shachar Bialick
The Decentralized AI Revolution with 0G Labs CEO, Michael Heinrich
Coinbase view on the future of crypto, with VP of International Policy Tom Duff Gordon
Scaling Dynasty to 2,5k Monthly Signups using TikTok, with CEO Alessandro Chesser
What really happened at Synapse according to Founder Sankaet Pathak
Brigit's journey to $100MM+ revenue and $1B in fees saved, with CEO Zuben Mathews
Building a 800,000 device DePIN blockchain, with Peaq Founder Till Wendler
Pipe's Pivot from Revenue Exchange to Digital Lending, with CEO Luke Voiles
Embedding Insurance in digital lending, with Danielle Sesko of TruStage
How Provenance blockchain tokenised $10B+ of Real World Assets, with Provenance Foundation CEO, Anthony Moro
What makes a successful AI investor, with Fusion Fund Founder Lu Zhang
The rise, fall, and turnaround of Better Mortgage, with CEO Vishal Garg
The AI-led digital wealth revolution, with Origin CEO Matt Watson
Building Artificial Intelligence we can trust using ZK Proofs, with EZKL CEO Jason Morton
How Affirm built the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) industry, with President Libor Michalek
Betterment's path to $45B and beyond, with CEO Sarah Levy
Powering $2.5T of Private Equity, with Carta Head of Policy Anthony Cimino
How NVIDIA is accelerating financial services into the AI age, with NVIDIA Global Head of Financial Services Industry Malcom deMayo
The promise behind investing in private credit, with Percent CEO Nelson Chu
Saving DeFi from financial hacks, with Quantstamp CEO Richard Ma
Building on Bitcoin Lightning Network and Lessons from Libra, with Lightspark Chief Strategy Officer Christian Catalini
How AI is generating and digitizing documentation across financial services, with Arteria AI CEO Shelby Austin
The evolution of derivates from structured products to decentralized perpetuals, with SynFutures CEO Rachel Lin
Investing in frontier capital markets, from Eastern Europe to ICOs, and tokenized securities, with TenSquared Capital Managing Partner Stan Miroshnik
Building modern digital lending across Capital One, Barclaycard, Funding Circle, and TRIVER, with TRIVER CEO Jerome Le Luel
Understanding Autonolas, the $2B autonomous agent network running on blockchain, with Valory CEO David Minarsch
The state of Fintech and the sector's biggest opportunities, with FT Partners CEO Steve McLaughlin and Fintech Meetup CEO Jon Lear
Advancing Bitcoin with Lightning, Inscriptions, and L2s, with Blockstream's Chief Product Officer Jeff Boortz
How Animoca Brands built an empire at the intersection of Gaming and Finance, with Animoca Brands Chairman Yat Siu
Can open banking power AI-based finance?, with Bud CEO Ed Maslaveckas
Bringing MetaMask to the next billion users, with Agoric CEO Dean Tribble and MetaMask Co-Founder Daniel Finlay
Modernizing private investment infrastructure, with Templum CEO Christopher Pallotta
How Legalist, a $770MM litigation finance investment firm, uses tech and data analytics to deliver alpha, with Co-Founder Eva Shang
Engineering the Dollar from ETH and Perpetuals, with Ethena Labs founder Guy Young
Using AI to digitize financial documents at scale, with Ocrolus CEO Sam Bobley
Embedding lending and credit into the fintech value proposition, with Canopy CEO Matt Bivons
Embedding Web3 infrastructure into Web2 platforms, with Bastion Co-Founders Nassim Eddequiouaq and Riyaz Faizullabhoy
Mastering fintech from public to private investments, with Portage CEO Adam Felesky
Applying artificial intelligence to investing and finance, with Auquan CEO Chandini Jain
How to build a $60B volume global payments platform, with Rapyd CEO Arik Shtilman
MoneyLion's evolution from neobank to financial education marketplace, with CMO Cynthia Kleinbaum Milner
The Techstars Web3 thesis and advice on building companies, with Pete Townsend Managing Director at Techstars
Modernizing the entire banking system, with Caitlin Long, CEO of Custodia Bank
How AI-enriched data aggregation is empowering the next generation of financial institutions, with Envestnet's Farouk Ferchichi
Deconstructing fintech innovations, valuations, and exit strategies,with Royal Park Partners Managing Partner Aman Behzad
A glimpse into stablecoin Tether and crypto exchange Bitfinex, with CTO Paolo Ardoino
How to be a great fintech venture capital investor, with Vintage Investment Partners General Partner Asaf Horesh
From gift cards to a global payments network of digital value, with Runa CEO Aron Alexander
Visa's network-of-networks strategy and vision for Web3 commerce, with Visa Europe's SVP Emma Kerr
How to build an investment fintech with over 3 million members, with Public Founder Leif Abraham
How embedded finance leader Synapse grew to powering 10MM+ consumers, with CEO Sankaet Pathak
Revolutionizing Web3 identity with lessons from IBM and Amazon
Using macroeconomic and fundamental analysis to understand crypto markets, with Arca CIO Jeff Dorman
From mobile credit to autonomous accounting using financial data and AI, with Puzzle CEO Sasha Orloff
The role of USDC and tokenized cash in Decentralized Commerce, with Teana Baker-Taylor, Circle VP of Policy and Regulatory Strategy EMEA
Exploring Stripe's growth in embedded finance, with Stripe Head of Startups for Banking-as-a-Service, Ashwin Kumar
Exploring Nigeria's payments landscape and CBDC eNaira's adoption, with Remita's Alisa Chinedu
The success of crypto payment processing in eCommerce, with Triple-A CEO Eric Barbier
Investing in technology platform shifts, from Fintech to Generative AI, with A16z General Partner Anish Acharya
Building an $800MM blockchain infrastructure company with Quicknode COO, Jackie Kennedy
Value of digital identity in fintech and crypto, with Plaid Head of Identity Alain Meier
Data aggregation for small businesses across banking, accounting, and commerce, with Codat CTO David Hoare
Building a decentralized exchange and appchain for perpetual contracts, with dYdX CEO Antonio Juliano
Modern Wealthtech for complex balance sheets, with Masttro CEO Padman Perumal
The psychology of entrepreneurship and reimagining collaboration behind Web3 analytics, with Flipside Crypto CEO Dave Balter
Building a sovereign, privacy-first, programmable, economic infrastructure, with Anoma CEO Christopher Goes
Predicting the market using a machine learning competition built on a decentralized science platform, with CrunchDAO CEO Arnaud Castillo
Diving into Ethereum Restaking and DeFi, with Calvin Liu Chief Strategy Officer of EigenLayer
Reinventing the credit card as a Fintech super app
Modern spend management systems for CFOs and employees, with Payhawk CEO Hristo Borisov
How DAOs and Web3 organizations scale financial operations, with Utopia Labs CEO Kaito Cunningham
Integrating smartphone behavioural data to manage credit risk and fraud, with Credolab CSO Michele Tucci
Creating a B2C fintech marketing strategy
Software contracts and composability unlocking economic growth, with Agoric CEO Dean Tribble
Powering the AI revolution from DeepDream to Dall-E, with Lambda Labs CEO Stephen Balaban
Combining payments infrastructure for merchants, digital lending, and DeFi, with Stronghold CEO Sean Bennett
The $100B fintech custodian powering digital investing, with CEO of Apex Bill Capuzzi
The Fintech Blueprint guide to designing your 2023 business model
Building digital assets into roboadvisor strategy, with Betterment VP of Crypto Investing Jesse Proudman
Scaling a core ledger for neobanks, processors, brokerages, and payment providers, with Twisp CEO Jarred Ward
The emerging problems in banking-as-a-service, with Lex Sokolin and Will Beeson
How to blow up a $32B crypto exchange, with Binance Labs MD of Token Engineering, David Shuttleworth
Adam Nash, Daffy CEO & former Wealthfront CEO, on using technology to improve people's financial lives
Embedded custody services and crypto IRAs using fintech APIs, with Prime Trust CEO Tom Pageler
Metaverse-native virtual artists and their financial ecosystem, with Hume CEO David Beiner
AI-based underwriting of small business insurance, with Coterie CEO David McFarland
Lex Sokolin's 2022 investing and building thesis -- the evolutionary relationship between Tech, Finance, and Web3
Creating the neobank and embedded finance industry, with Sila CEO and Simple Co-Founder Shamir Karkal
How Binance is investing $1B in the BNB ecosystem, with BNB Chain Investment Director Gwendolyn Regina
Growing an AI-powered digital lender to $850MM in revenue, with Upstart's SVP of Business Development Jeff Keltner
Eliminating payments fraud from Fintech and Web3 using AI, with Sardine CEO Soups Ranjan
Transforming art, private equity, and securities into tokenized assets on chain, with Securitize's CEO Carlos Domingo
Implications of the Ethereum Merge for Web3, with Justin Drake of The Ethereum Foundation
Podcast Conversation: Building Dave, the neobank saving users $1B in overdraft fees, with Dave Founder and CEO, Jason Wilk
Teaching financial AI to be ethical and fair, with Fairplay CEO Kareem Saleh
How virtual worlds, vast communities, and traditional entertainment are shaping the $200B Web3 gaming sector, with Mark Aubrey of Catheon Gaming
Connecting 500,000+ small businesses to digital working capital, with Fundbox CEO Prashant Fuloria
Combining AI and DeFi to underwrite Web3 risks, with RociFi Co-Founder Chris Brookins
Eliminating payday loans and overdraft fees for 2.5MM employees, with Matt Kopko of DailyPay
What is GameFi and the $1B+ fractal DAO building it, with BitDAO Head of Product Strategy Jacobc.eth
Navigating the macro environment and crypto financial crisis, with the ConsenSys Cryptoeconomics team
The strategy behind Revolut's merchant acquiring and paytech growth, with Simon Taylor, Head of Strategy & Content at Sardine.ai
Powering a BNPL platform with a global lender network, with ChargeAfter CEO Meidad Sharon
Embedding financial workflow automation in digital banking platforms, with Monite CEO Ivan Maryasin
Growing startups through revenue-based funding, with Arc Co-founder Nick Lombardo
Were we wrong about neobanks and B2C fintech? With 2x digital bank founder Will Beeson
Building the income and employment data layer for financial services, with Pinwheel CEO Kurtis Lin
Helping DeFi and Web3 developers integrate crypto onramps in 125 countries with Sami Start of Transak
Scaling Ethereum and Web3 using Arbitrum optimistic rollups, with Offchain Labs CEO Steven Goldfeder
NEAR Foundation CEO Marieke Flament on building USDC issuer Circle, business neobank Mettle, and growing the NEAR ecosystem
Building a $200MM DeFi asset manager and DAO treasury management tools, with Mona El Isa of Enzyme
25 years of cypherpunk innovation in money, privacy, and music, with Chia Network COO Gene Hoffman
Launching protocols, DAOs, and NFTs in media and finance, with CEO of Palm NFT studio Dan Heyman
Aggregating Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and structuring a DAO, with Sergej Kunz of 1inch
Building an insurtech platform that scales from Fintech to DeFi, with Cover CEO Karn Saroya
Stablecoins, Curve Wars, and Olympus as Reserve Currency, with DeFi Researcher Luca Prosperi
Perpetual futures in DeFi and seeing frontier technology, with Perpetual Protocol Co-Founder Yenwen Feng
Embedding crypto assets into fintech footprints, with Zero Hash CEO Edward Woodford
Investing in Web3 and fintech for CFOs, with Redpoint's Urvashi Barooah
The Embedded finance revolution in cards and payments, with Highnote founder John MacIlwaine
Rebuilding banking starting with Teens, with Current CTO Trevor Marshall
Building an investment platform with a risk management heart, with Riskalyze CEO Aaron Klein
Powering billions of API-first payment operations, with Modern Treasury's CEO & Founder Dimitri Dadiomov
Distributing €1.4 trillion of investment funds on blockchain, with Allfunds' Ruben Nieto
Modernizing $25B of assets with retirement wealthtech, with Vestwell CEO Aaron Schumm
Upgrading DeFi market-making and liquidity programs, with Carson Cook of Tokemak
Solving climate change through financial services, with Aspiration CEO Andrei Cherny
Building the world’s most powerful blockchain development suite, with Michael Godsey of Infura
Pioneering Crypto ETPs to $3B in assets in 3 years, with 21Shares CEO Hany Rashwan
Investing in real estate, crypto, and startups using your retirement account, with Rocket Dollar CEO Henry Yoshida
Origins of Metamask's 20 million Web3 users, with co-founder Dan Finlay
Powering the FX behind Africa's trillion-dollar growth, with Aza CEO Elizabeth Rossiello
Digitizing banks with better BNPL, Underwriting, and Anti-Fraud Tech, with Amount CEO Adam Hughes
DAOs 101, with SharkDAO, PartyDAO, and Juicebox contributor Nicholas
Building a $15B+ embedded loan management platform, with LoanPro CEO Rhett Roberts
Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov on building the global decentralized oracle network powering DeFi and Web3
How China is winning the race in Fintech, Payments, and CBDCs, with Fintech expert Richard Turrin
Scaling Web3 with the $10B+ Polygon protocol, with COO Sandeep Nailwal
CEO of Yield App, Tim Frost, on integrating DeFi Yield products into a regulated Fintech company
Robinhood's order flow disrupting equities and crypto market structure, with Paul Rowady of Alphacution
What's next in Web3? Tachyon Accelerator's MD Gabriel Anderson on early stage in NFTs, DeFi, & Crypto
Artificial intelligence, big data, and the future of financial services with Kevin Levitt of NVIDIA
Art Blocks CEO Erick Calderon on Generative Art, Blockchains, and the NFT movement
Metaverse 101 with Lex Sokolin and Cris Sheridan, Sr. Editor of Financial Sense
Altruist CEO Jason Wenk on WealthTech, financial planning, advice, and generally improving financial health
Treasury Prime CEO Chris Dean on Banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, and the evolution of FinTech API infrastructure
Sheila Warren of the World Economic Forum on the 4th Industrial Revolution, the role of Law, Government, and DAOs, and the Creator Economy
Step CEO CJ MacDonald on building the leading Gen-Z bank, TikTok influencers, and culture
eToro CEO Yoni Assia on the purpose of investing, crypto assets, and building a $10B fintech
Fintech venture investing after a career in the US treasury and Wall St equity research, with Patrick Pinschmidt of MiddleGame Ventures
Building the best payments fiat to crypto onramp, with Ivan Soto-Wright of MoonPay
Inspiring creativity, collaboration, and visual conversation by harnessing decentralized tech, with Beatriz Helena Ramos of DADA.art
From ecommerce to a million+ global financial community, with Maximilian Rofagha of Finimize
Developing regenerative finance using memes for the public good, with Kevin Owocki of Gitcoin
The software stack powering Capital Markets and its coming transformation, with Horacio Barakat of Broadridge
Rob Leshner of Compound on creating a multi-billion DeFi lending protocol, and innovation under constraint
Digital banking opportunities across geographies and generations, with Will Beeson of Bella
Decentralized Identity and the Metaverse, with Michael Sena of The Ceramic Network
Scaling B2B cross-border payments and the competition between global payment rails, with Marwan Forzley of Veem
Building the foundational money DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) in DeFi, with Rune Christensen of Maker Foundation
Building global paytech companies and communities with Anil Aggarwal of TxVia, Money2020, and Fintech Meetup
Building blockchain money and sustainable economies, with former Supervisory Board Chairman of the Icelandic Central Bank and Co-founder of Monerium, Jon Egilsson
Camila Russo of The Defiant and author of The Infinite Machine discusses crypto journalism, writing about Ethereum's inception, $69M NFTs, and building a DeFi community
Joe Lubin, ConsenSys CEO and Ethereum co-founder discusses AI, macroeconomics, philosophy, and the future of the $200 billion Ethereum network
How a moment on the NYC 6 train turned into using NFTs in the $74T supply chain industry before NFTs were cool, with Tyler Mulvihill of EulerBeats
$60B digital capital markets, crypto law and regulation, and Ethereum Layer 2 scaling, with Pat Berarducci
Matt Low of InveniumX discusses the $250M of non-fungible tokens and the $200MM crypto neo-cyberpunk art market for digital objects (e.g., Beeple, NBA Top Shots), with emerging financial features
How M1 Finance's $3B AUM super-app is outcompeting Wealthfront, Robinhood, and Schwab, with CEO Brian Barnes
The path from institutional finance (Goldman) to enterprise blockchain (PwC) to the $26B edge of DeFi innovation (Aave) with Ajit Tripathi
Embedded Finance as a $7 trillion market opportunity for banks in the business of suffering, with Simon Torrance
Who wins and loses in the Plaid/Visa divorce, and the $10 Billion in new Fintech SPACs (Bakkt and SoFi)