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The F in Tech Podcast
Fintech founding myths from the pioneering innovators, entrepreneurs and investors who turned their disruptive visions into reality.
Hosted by broadcaster Elliott Gotkine the F in Tech podcast lifts the lid on fintech founders whose journeys of genius - and despair - are changing our lives, mostly for the better.
The F in Tech podcast is co-produced in 2021 by the Paris Fintech Forum with the support of bpifrance
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Episodes
The F in Tech PodcastShow Me the (Tokenized) Money: The Race Across Emerging Markets
Stablecoins, tokenized deposits and other forms of digital money are moving from theory into the plumbing of global payments. Host Elliott Gotkine is joined by…
The F in Tech PodcastHow AI is rewiring payments
In this week's episode, Elliott is joined by Shaown Nandi, AWS VP of Technology, and Mauricio Clausen, dLocal VP of AI - R&D, to discusses whether the…
The F in Tech PodcastThe hidden cost of compliance
In this week's episode, Elliott discusses licenses, regulation and the hidden cost of non-compliance with Jeff Lehtman, payments compliance expert and Co-Chair…
The F in Tech PodcastWhy aren't cards enough?
In this week's episode, Paypal’s Former Director of Payment Partnerships, Juan Molero, and dLocal’s Head of Alternative Payment Methods, Clarice Leaman, join…
The F in Tech PodcastFrom Chaos to Playbook
Why emerging markets feel so hard - and why they don’t have to: a conversation with two of the world’s leading payment company CEOs: Boku's Stuart Neal, and…
The F in Tech PodcastCredit Kudos Founder & CEO, Freddy Kelly
When he got his first taste of startup life, in San Francisco, freshly-graduated Freddy Kelly did a few months at culinary school on the side. Little did he…
The F in Tech PodcastBankin' Co-Founder & CEO, Joan Burkovic
In its early days, banks tried to block Bankin’. Some set up call centres, warning customers of the danger of using the personal finance app, and encouraging…
The F in Tech PodcastBanxware Founder & Co-CEO, Miriam Wohlfarth
Some people thought launching a fintech during a pandemic was crazy. Then Banxware - a Germany-based, white-labelled SME lending platform - saw its banking…
The F in Tech PodcastAlpaca Co-Founder & CEO Yoshi Yokokawa
How Yoshi Yokokawa is enabling the world to have Robinhood-style access to financial markets and crypto, and why the Alpaca co-founder & CEO feels the furry…
The F in Tech PodcastWakam CEO Olivier Jaillon
How Olivier Jaillon cheated death, and survived the failure of his U.S. startup, to reinvent a 200-year old insurer-turned-insurtech, Wakam.
The F in Tech PodcastElinvar Co-founder & CEO, Chris Bartz
How having investors from day one helped wealth management platform, Elinvar, get off to a flying start, and why co-founder and CEO, Chris Bartz, says that…
The F in Tech PodcastBitbond Co-Founder & CEO, Radko Albrecht
Aged 14, Radko Albrecht, was one of Germany’s top figure skaters. A child of Slovakian refugees, he was on track to become an Olympian, something that would…
The F in Tech Podcastiwoca Co-founder & CEO, Christoph Rieche
When Christoph Rieche told colleagues at Goldman Sachs he was leaving to set up iwoca, some of them thought he was crazy. Others were jealous. Ten years later…
The F in Tech PodcastDivido Founder & Advisor, Christer Holloman
The buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) space is on fire right now - just look at Klarna's latest funding round, valuing the fintech in excess of $45b, or the $29b Square…
The F in Tech PodcastBunq Founder & CEO, Ali Niknam
How Ali Niknam went all in with more than 100 million euros ($125m) of his OWN money to create an eco-friendly neobank called Bunq (now valued at nearly $2b)…
The F in Tech PodcastMinna Tech Founder & CEO, Joakim Sjöblom
Joakim Sjöblom founded Minna Tech to stop people wasting money on subscriptions they no longer want - but seeing his first company fail, and losing money in…
The F in Tech PodcastSimplex Co-Founder & CEO, Nimrod Lehavi
How Nimrod Lehavi turned his frustrating experience of buying crypto into Simplex, and why it was anything but simple.
The F in Tech PodcastTandem Co-Founder & Former CEO, Ricky Knox
His grandfather founded the Cincinnati Bengals American Football team. Ricky Knox co-founded Tandem (along with 10,000 other people - kind of), while almost…
The F in Tech PodcastDreamquark Founder & CEO, Nicolas Meric
How Nicolas Meric made the leap from particle physics to fintech, and the challenges he faced along the way with Dreamquark.
The F in Tech PodcastRailsbank Co-Founder & CEO, Nigel Verdon
Entrepreneurs often describe multiple existential challenges hitting them at the same time as “a perfect storm”. But Nigel Verdon, CEO of banking-as-a-service…
The F in Tech PodcastRaisin Co-Founder & CEO, Tamas Giorgadse
Tamas Giorgadse was a chess prodigy who survived civil war and hyperinflation. He finished school aged 12, and completed his masters three years later. He…
The F in Tech PodcastCollective Benefits Founder & CEO, Anthony Beilin
A back injury - possibly caused by some overexuberant dancing at a wedding - put Anthony Beilin out of action for six months. Luckily, he worked full-time, at…
The F in Tech PodcastUbble Co-Founder, Juliette Delanoe
A lunch, an idea and a co-founder she trusted were all it took for Juliette Delanoe to leave her job at Thales to create Ubble, a (for now) French-focused…
The F in Tech PodcastBUX Founder & Board Member, Nick Bortot
When he was fired by Citi in 1999, a young Nick Bortot received some friendly advice from his soon-to-be ex-boss: don't get another job in finance. Yet that's…
The F in Tech PodcastPrimaryBid Co-Founder & CEO, Anand Sambasivan
Born in Bombay, and raised in Singapore, Anand Sambasivan was destined to be a doctor - till it turned out he wasn't very good at medicine. He went into…
The F in Tech PodcastMoneyhub CEO, Sam Seaton
Sam Seaton was an eventing champion. She flew around the world with her horse in the hold. But after failing to make the Sydney Olympics team, and realising…
The F in Tech PodcastNAV Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Levi King
Farmer. Missionary. Electric sign salesman. Hotelier. And most importantly - for our purposes, at least - founder of not one, but TWO successful fintechs…
The F in Tech PodcastMeniga Co-Founder & CEO Georg Ludviksson
Georg Ludviksson was once Iceland’s top mathlete and creator of a Tomb-Raider-topping video game. But it took the global financial crisis to help turn his…
The F in Tech PodcastAkoni CEO & Founder, Felicia Meyerowitz Singh
If you can switch financial assets, like stocks and pensions, super easily, why can't you do the same with the bank that holds your cash? This germ of an idea…
The F in Tech PodcastZego Co-Founder & CEO, Sten Saar
There's no ego in Zego! And so when Estonian-born Sten Saar replaced his co-founder in the top job, there were no recriminations. Instead, the insurtech, which…
The F in Tech PodcastPlum Co-Founder & CEO, Victor Trokoudes
In his early 30s, Victor Trokoudes was a man without a plan. He was also a man with no savings, and a father who kept nagging him to do something with his…
The F in Tech PodcastOnfido Co-Founder & Former CEO, Husayn Kassai
Aged 10, and freshly arrived in the UK, Husayn Kassai watched his parents struggle to prove their identity. A couple of years later, he “borrowed” his sister’s…
The F in Tech PodcastPollinate Founder & CEO, Al Lukies
Running a fintech is apparently just as challenging as playing professional rugby. Al Lukies should know - he's done both, though he only broke half the bones…
The F in Tech PodcastOurCrowd CEO & Founder, Jon Medved
To paraphrase the opening song in the musical, Avenue Q, what do you do with a BA in History? Become a VC and then a fintech founder, of course! Already…
The F in Tech PodcastGetsafe Co-founder & CEO, Christian Wiens
Forget glass ceilings, Christian Wiens had to break through glass doors - and be billed for them by his landlord - before being inspired to found his…
The F in Tech PodcastLiberis CEO, Rob Straathof
Rob Straathof is CEO of Liberis, an alternative lender for SMEs, whose technology and data enable it to pre-approve businesses for loans. Of all the fintech…
The F in Tech PodcastZopa Co-Founder & Director, Giles Andrews
With a passion for motor racing and cars Giles Andrews wasn’t always destined to found a fintech. And when he did, he almost crashed and burned. But under his…
The F in Tech PodcastFuture Family Co-Founder & CEO, Claire Tomkins
They say founding a startup is like raising a child. After blowing more than $100,000 on her own fertility treatment, Claire Tomkins did both, alongside…
The F in Tech PodcastGoodlord CEO & Nutmeg Chairman, William Reeve
Serial entrepreneur William Reeve is CEO of lettings software platform Goodlord and Chairman of robo-advisor Nutmeg. He sold his first startup - Fletcher…
The F in Tech PodcastKantox Co-Founder & CEO, Philippe Gelis
Picture this: you've been beavering away for years on your fintech. Friends and family have chipped in. And now you've just raised your seed round of €1m…
The F in Tech PodcastCurve Founder & CEO Shachar Bialik
They say bad things always come in threes. Shachar Bialik would no doubt agree. Brexit and COVID would ordinarily be enough on their own to floor many…
The F in Tech PodcasteToro Co-Founder & CEO, Yoni Assia
Is working in roller coasters not the perfect metaphor - and experience - for running an online trading platform? We think so! Yoni Assia, who leads social…
The F in Tech PodcastHippo Co-Founder & CEO, Assaf Wand
Is it an insurtech, is it a unicorn, is it a hippo? It's all three! Having raised more than $700m, Hippo - which unlike, Lemonade, is firmly focused on…
The F in Tech PodcastPurely Capital CEO & Founder, Wayne Godfrey
How working with Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan and Netflix inspired Wayne Godfrey to found his film financing fintech, Purely Capital - and how he narrowly…
The F in Tech PodcastStraterix Co-Founder & CEO, Alla Gil
In this episode, how being blocked from Soviet grad school set a maths genius grandmother on the path to founding Straterix, a fintech software startup that…
The F in Tech PodcastWave Money CEO & Co-Founder, Brad Jones
Brad Jones - our second Ozzie founder in as many weeks - co-founded Wave Money in 2015. Already profitable, the mobile money and payment app for Myanmar, has…
The F in Tech PodcastLendInvest Co-Founder & Chairman, Christian Faes
"I landed in August 2008, and I looked around me and thought: "Jeez: what I have done?"." That was Christian Faes' first impression when he moved back to…
The F in Tech PodcastSmart Pension Co-Founder & CEO, Andrew Evans
He can trace the Chinese side of his family back some 2,000 years. His grandfather helped build Hong Kong into what it is today. And his dad invented HD TV…
The F in Tech PodcastFintonic Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Lupina Iturriaga
In the world of fintech, one-trick ponies are no longer in vogue. Neobanks are getting into trading; trading apps are moving into wealth management; and…
The F in Tech PodcastMarket Finance Co-Founder & CEO, Anil Stocker
It may not be the world's oldest profession; lenders have been factoring - allowing customers to borrow against the value of their invoices - since Roman…
The F in Tech PodcastLemonade Co-Founder & CEO, Daniel Schreiber
When life gives you lemons, create $3bn worth of Lemonade. The F in Tech Podcast, with host, Elliott Gotkine, launches its maiden show with Daniel Schreiber…