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GritHow Plaid Turned a Failed $5.3B Deal with Visa into Momentum | Zach Perret (Plaid)Zach Perret saw a fintech explosion coming—and built the rails before it arrived.On this week’s Grit, the Plaid co-founder and CEO retraces his path from building tools for developers to linking the world’s largest banks, and how a failed $5.3B acquisition by Visa became a launchpad.He unpacks the pressure of operating in a tightly regulated industry, why rebuilding trust after the deal collapse was harder than expected, and how Plaid is navigating the shift from startup to staple—while staying obsessed with the end user.Links:Connect...2025-07-141h 04
200: Tech Tales FoundPlaid: The Invisible Powerhouse Revolutionizing How We Move MoneyPlaid, the invisible force behind countless financial apps like Venmo, Cash App, and Robinhood, has quietly revolutionized how we manage money. Founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey as a solution to their own fintech struggles, Plaid became the universal translator connecting over 12,000 financial institutions with more than 8,000 fintech apps across the globe. Its API infrastructure allows users to seamlessly link bank accounts, track spending, invest, and send money — all without wrestling with outdated banking systems. But Plaid's rise wasn't without controversy. In 2020, payments giant Visa announced a $5.3 billion acquisition attempt that raised red flags with the U.S...2025-06-2928 min
Wenbin Fang's Podcast PlaylistUndoing a $5 Billion Acquisition and Building a Durable Standalone Plaid (with Plaid CEO Zach Perret) Podcast: ACQ2 by Acquired (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Undoing a $5 Billion Acquisition and Building a Durable Standalone Plaid (with Plaid CEO Zach Perret)Pub date: 2025-05-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe sit down with Zach Perret, CEO of Plaid, to discuss the remarkable journey of Plaid and the broader fintech landscape over the past several years. Zach takes us blow-by-blow through journey of almost getting acquired by Visa, the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic… which quickly reversed with ZIRP tailw...2025-05-271h 00
ACQ2 by AcquiredUndoing a $5 Billion Acquisition and Building a Durable Standalone Plaid (with Plaid CEO Zach Perret)We sit down with Zach Perret, CEO of Plaid, to discuss the remarkable journey of Plaid and the broader fintech landscape over the past several years. Zach takes us blow-by-blow through journey of almost getting acquired by Visa, the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic… which quickly reversed with ZIRP tailwinds, and how Plaid navigated the volatile market conditions to build a diversified business. We explore the company’s strategic pivots, including their expansion into analytics for fraud detection, alternative credit systems, and bank payments. If you’ve ever wondered “how do you turn from one simple product into a more d...2025-05-271h 00
This Week in Fintech's Podcast🎧Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo Live at Newcomer's Breaking The Bank Summit: Turning Compliance Into a Competitive Advantage and Learnings From $0 to $100M ARRIn today's episode, Ryan Zauk is joined by Christina Cacioppo, Co-Founder & CEO of Vanta.Ryan and Christina recorded this episode live at Newcomer's Breaking the Bank Summit in San Francisco. The Summit was an invite-only, one-day summit for fintech founders, builders, and investors to explore the future of finance and technology. Breaking the Bank was a phenomenal event, with speakers including Jackie Reses, Zach Perret, Eric Glyman, Matt Harris, Josh Reeves, William Hockey, Annie Lamont, and many more.And if you're looking for more fintech events, check out Stablecon in NYC coming May 29th...2025-05-2238 min
TBPNLIVE FROM HILL & VALLEY: Jacob Helberg, Delian Asparouhov, Christian Garrett, Josh Wolfe, Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, Mike Solana, Keith Rabois, Qasar Younis, Shaun Maguire, Sampriti Bhattacharyya, David Friedberg, Joshua Steinman & moreTBPN.com is made possible by:Ramp - https://ramp.comLinear - https://linear.appFigma - https://www.figma.comEight Sleep - https://eightsleep.com/tbpnWander - https://wander.com/tbpnPublic - https://public.comAdQuick - https://adquick.comBezel - https://getbezel.com Numeral - https://www.numeralhq.comPolymarket - https://polymarket.comFollow TBPN: https://TBPN.comhttps://x.com/tbpn...2025-05-014h 07
"Turpentine VC" | Venture Capital and InvestingE86: Inside Mischief VC's Evolution with Zach Perret and Lauren FarleighIn this episode of Turpentine VC, Erik Torenberg interviews Lauren Farleigh and Zach Perret from Mischief VC, discussing their experiences as founders and how they leveraged those to build their venture firm.— 📰 Be notified early when Turpentine drops new publication: https://www.turpentine.co/exclusiveaccess —SPONSORS:☁️ Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds and offers one consistent price. Oracle is offering to...2025-04-2246 min
Pattern BreakersZach Perret: The Survival Story of a Fintech GiantLong before Plaid became a $13.4 billion fintech juggernaut, it was just another struggling startup. Co-founders Zach Perret and William Hockey burned through cash and pivoted from one failed idea to the next, ultimately getting turned away by roughly 100 VCs during seed round funding. But Plaid persevered, and eventually revolutionized how financial data moved through the internet, eventually boasting customers like Robinhood, Coinbase and Venmo.
In this episode, Mike Maples, Jr. of Floodgate speaks with Perret about the company’s austere early days, convincing the banking industry to change its legacy ways, the concept of lighthouse customers, and why every day yo...2025-02-2538 min
mffm - エムエフエフエム#85 SBIが独フィンテックSolaris社の株式の過半を取得へ, ステーブルコインは誰が何に使っているのか？, Plaid CEOのFintech業界予測2025 - WorldFintechNews2025年1月# タイムスタンプ
(8:45) SBIが独フィンテックSolaris社の株式の過半を取得へ
(22:01) ステーブルコインは誰が何に使っているのか？
(38:00) Plaid CEOのFintech業界予測2025
# トピックス
SBIが独フィンテックSolaris社の株式の過半を取得へ
SBIホールディングスが、ドイツのBaaS企業Solaris社の株式の過半を取得することが明らかになりました。
Solaris社は欧州で高い知名度を誇るBaaS企業ですが、2021年に買収した競合の英Contis社の影響もあり業績が低迷していました。
報道によれば、今回の取引は大幅なダウンラウンドになる可能性が高く、BaaS企業を取り巻く厳しい環境が欧州でも続いていることが示唆されています。
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/01/07/companies/sbi-solaris-stake/
ステーブルコインは誰が何に使っているのか？
暗号資産業界の注目テーマとして登場し続けるステーブルコイン。特定の通貨に価格が連動するこの暗号資産は、ここ最近、時価総額が過去最高水準に達しています。
さらに、ステーブルコインを受送金しているアドレス数も増加しており、リアルなユースケースの広がりを実感させるデータが揃っています。
今回は、ステーブルコインが誰に、どのような目的で利用されているのか、具体的なデータをもとに議論しました。
https://writing.kunle.app/p/january-2025-a-very-stable-future?r=3qrzv
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/snapshot/why-stablecoins-are-gaining-ground-nigeria-turkey/
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/state-of-crypto-report-2024/
Plaid CEOのFintech業界予測2025
毎年恒例となったPlaid CEOのZach Perret氏による業界予測が、今年も発表されました。今回の予測には以下の5つのトピックが挙げられています：
不正行為が銀行にとって最重要な議題に
AIの盛り上がりは多いが、ほとんどがただの誇大広告
フィンテックへの資金調達が復活！
連邦準備制度（FED）、通貨監督庁（OCC）、連邦預金保険公社（FDIC）、消費者金融保護局（CFPB）、証券取引委員会（SEC）の「アルファベットスープ」は引き続きほぼ現状維持
大手銀行が広告プラットフォーム化し始める
今回のエピソードでは、この予測を深掘りしつつ、昨年の予測がどの程度実現したのかの答え合わせも行っています。
https://plaid.com/events/fintech-predictions-2025-tech-talk/
# 話し手
瀧 俊雄
執行役員 グループCoPA(Chief of Public Affairs) 兼 Fintech研究所長
https://twitter.com/sutebuu
田中 隆悠
Startup Studio室
https://x.com/djvmcusj
小林 豪
https://twitter.com/GOU_00132025-01-2451 min
Building One with Tomer CohenIt's coming: Season 2 of Building One with Tomer CohenGet ready for a brand new season of Building One. Tune in Jan 14 as we kick things off with Nike’s own Jason Mayden, the Chief Design Officer of the Jordan brand. But that’s hardly all - we’ve got a great lineup of guests for you this season: Sal Khan of Khan Academy, Jenna Johnson of Patagonia, Arvind Jain of Glean, and Will Ahmed of WHOOP are just a few of the new voices we’ll hear from!And if you can’t wait, it’s never been a better time to catch up on great interv...2025-01-0801 min
Everything ActioncastTango & Cash (1989)For the final Everything Actioncast of 2024, Zach and Chris are getting locked up with Tango & Cash, which celebrated its 35th anniversary earlier this week.Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell co-star as Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash, two cops from opposite sides of Los Angeles with drastically different styles but an equal amount of massive drug busts. Unknown to both cops, crime kingpin Yves Perret (Jack Palance) oversees all the criminal enterprises they are disrupting, and he plots first to destroy their reputations with a false murder charge and then send them to be killed in prison. The du...2024-12-271h 02
HD in HDBehind the Growth of Plaid with Zach PerretBeginning in a small town in North Carolina, Zach Perret would eventually go on to form one of the most consequential fintech companies in all of Silicon Valley. Now, the Co-Founder and CEO of Plaid sits down with Henrique Dubugras to talk about being shaped ideologically by Occupy Wall Street, selling and then un-selling to Visa, and how a lead investor once pulled out of a round at the last minute, leading to Plaid being saved by three guys named "Justin".2024-12-031h 21HD in HDComing Soon... HD in HDHenrique Dubugras, founder and chairman of Brex sits down with some of the brightest minds in business and fintech for real discussions that cut through the noise. Hear from luminaries like Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev, Plaid’s Zach Perret, and Mercado Libre’s Marcos Galperin as they share their insights and talk about what’s really going on behind the scenes. To hear all the unexpected, unfiltered insights be sure to subscribe to HD in HD - Unscripted Conversations with Henrique Dubugras, wherever you get your podcasts.2024-10-2801 min
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ PlaidZach Perret is the CEO and Co-Founder of Plaid, a technology platform reshaping financial services. To date, Zach has raised over $734M for Plaid from the likes of NEA, Spark, GV, Coatue and a16z, to name a few. Today, thousands of companies including the largest fintechs, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks use Plaid. In addition, Zach is also a Co-Founder of Mischief, an early-stage venture fund in San Francisco. In Today’s Episode with Zach Perret We Discuss: 1. Founder Mode: Why “Founder Mode” will be the most dangero...2024-10-1650 min
This Week in Fintech's PodcastPlaid CEO Zach Perret: Plaid’s Next Chapter in the AI Era, ‘Fintech Spring,’ and Mastering Fintech HiringWelcome to the inaugural episode of This Month in Fintech, a new flagship podcast from the folks at This Week in Fintech.
The show is hosted by Ryan Zauk, who will sit down monthly with some of the world’s most renowned tech and finance leaders, sharing their stories and products while unpacking their secrets to success.
Our inaugural guest is none other than Zach Perret, Co-Founder and CEO of Plaid. Plaid has reached near ubiquity in Financial Technology, building the connective tissue underpinning many aspects of modern fintech.
To give you a sen...2024-09-2446 min
a16z LiveIn the Vault: New Applications in Fintech with Plaid’s Zach Perret and Marqeta’s Simon KhalafIn this conversation, which took place at a16z's Connect Fintech event, a16z General Partner Angela Strange, Plaid CEO and cofounder Zach Perret, and Marqeta CEO Simon Khalaf discuss how AI will shape the future of banking, the battle between payment rails in the U. S., and how there's still opportunity to transform the basic credit card into a fully digital product. 0:00-1:42 Intro1:42-1:56 Topics: Generative AI, payment rails shift, and regulation in open banking and sponsor banking1:56-4:46 GenAI's potential impact on credit modeling and fraud4:46-7:09 Implications o...2024-06-2024 min
Building One with Tomer Cohen6 More Questions with Zach PerretWe're back this week with Plaid CEO, Zach Perret. He's joining Tomer for a rapid fire round of questions.Follow Zach Perret on LinkedIn.Follow Tomer Cohen on LinkedIn and check out his newsletter Building LinkedIn.2024-05-0706 min
Building One with Tomer CohenBuilding Plaid with Zach PerretOver the years, technology has transformed banking for everyday people. You can now access your money without ever having to touch a dollar bill. But what powers the apps that have so simplified the banking process? Look no further than Plaid. Plaid securely connects apps like Venmo, CashApp and Robinhood and many others to your financial accounts. Today, Plaid co-founder and CEO Zach Perret joins Tomer for a conversation on the intricacies of designing an app for the financial sector. As a highly regulated industry, Zach has a unique design challenge and today he’ll break down how he pu...2024-04-3042 min
Cambrian Fintech with Rex SalisburyINSIDER INTERVIEW WITH ZACH PERRET (Founder of PLAID)Join us for a captivating chat with Zach, Plaid's visionary founder and CEO. Plaid stands at the forefront of fintech innovation, linking financial institutions with apps to revolutionize banking and finance. From its early days in San Francisco to becoming a key player in fintech, Plaid's journey reflects the sector's rapid evolution.Zach guides us through Plaid's milestones—from filling a vital niche, scaling its impact, to navigating the fintech landscape's ups and downs, including the COVID-19 pandemic and banking crises. These moments highlight Plaid's crucial role in stabilizing the fintech ecosystem.Di...2024-03-1940 min
a16z LiveMy First 16: Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid's Zach PerretIn this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Zach Perret, the co-founder and CEO of Plaid, about how Plaid built a community in the early days to acquire customers, how they tracked “free radicals,” and how to orient your first customers around speed. 0 - 1:09 Intro1:09 - 9:57 Plaid history9:57 - 16:39 First customers16:39 - 26:45 Pricing philosophy26:45 - 29:27 Boring as a brand29:27 - 33:01 Advice for founders/Outro
2023-12-0533 min
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Fintech LeadersJean-Denis Greze, Plaid CTO – At the Cutting Edge of Privacy and Security, Powerful Network Effects, How LLMs Will Reshape Our Digital ExperienceSend us a textMiguel Armaza sits down with Jean-Denis Greze, CTO at Plaid, a data network and one of the foundational fintech companies that works with thousands of firms, including several Fortune 500s and some of largest banks in the world. Founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey, Plaid’s network covers 12,000+ financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. They’ve raised over $700 million from Felicis, Homebrew, NEA, Spark Capital, Citi, Goldman, AmEx, Ribbit, and a long list of great investors.We discuss:...2023-09-2647 min
Fintech Family HourZach Perret, CEO at PlaidFintech Fam! It is time to bring you an interview that I have wanted to do for probably the last 4-5 years. It's a Zach Attack! My guest on this episode is Zach Perret, CEO of Plaid. After solving the Pettet/Perret dilemma, we talk about his early life and career, the early days of building Plaid, how he’s scaled himself as an individual and a leader, the Visa transaction and a ton more. Enjoy!Links:Zach Perret on TwitterPlaidTechStars TV seriesZach’s Hack...2023-08-041h 02
Fintech Layer CakeInside Plaid and Open Finance with CEO Zach PerretReggie Young and Matt Janiga interview Zach Perret, co-founder and CEO of Plaid. They talk about all things Plaid: how it evolved into being a forefront in open finance, and how it’ll continue to unlock financial freedom for everyone.2023-04-1347 min
TechCheckTechCheck+ Plaid CEO Zach Perret on his 2023 fintech predictions 1/24/23CNBC's Deirdre Bosa and Kate Rooney sit down with Plaid co-founder and CEO Zach Perret from CNBC's San Francisco bureau. Zach shares his biggest fintech predictions for the year ahead.2023-01-2419 min
TechCheckMicrosoft Reports Earnings After the Bell, Amazon Unveils New Prescription Drug Perk & Plaid CEO Zach Perret on Fintech Outlook 01/24/23Our anchors begin today’s show previewing Microsoft’s earnings after the bell with CNBC’s Steve Kovach and New Age Wealth Advisors Co-Founder Todd Gordon. Then, Mizuho Managing Director Dan Dolev outlines his bear case for Coinbase, and our Julia Boorstin reports on Verizon’s latest quarterly results. Next, Guggenheim Securities Senior Managing Director Eric Mandl offers his outlook for tech M&A, and CNBC’s Bertha Coombs covers Amazon rolling out a new prescription drug perk for Prime subscribers in the U.S. Later, Plaid CEO Zach Perret joins for a look at fintech in the year ahead.2023-01-2446 min
mffm - エムエフエフエム#19 Fintech専門家の2023年業界予測を読む, ジャック・マーが支配株主から外れた Ant Group の現在とは ~WorldFintechNews 1月# タイムスタンプ
(0:00) Fintech専門家の業界予測
(1:26) Plaid CEO Zach Perretさんの予測
(14:40) Jason Mikulaさんの予測
(34:00) Ant Groupの現在
The Economistが習近平政権を取り上げたポッドキャスト「The Prince」はこちらから。
# 今回取り上げたトピックと参考資料
・Fintech専門家の2023年予測を読む
年末年始になると盛んに行われる来年の業界予測。今回の収録では、PlaidのCEO Zach PerretさんとFintech Business Weeklyの著者であるJason Mikulaさんによる2023年のFintech業界予測を見ながら、それぞれのトピックについて議論しています。
Zach Perretさんの予測：Fintech predictions for 2023!
Jason Mikulaさんの予測：Six Predictions for 2023: Me vs. ChatGPT - by Jason Mikula
それぞれの予測に出てきたトピックについて本ポッドキャストの過去回で取り上げたものもありますので、気になった方は以下からぜひお聴きください。
世界最大の小売業 Walmart が進める金融戦略とは
加速するAppleの金融戦略、その狙いとは
アメリカの銀行システムの話 ~ パートナー銀行のコンプライアンス問題とオープンバンキング~
世界の決済ネットワークの今：米FedNowのローンチやブラジルPIXの成功、全銀ネットのフィンテック開放まで
・ジャック・マーが支配株主から外れた Ant Group の現在とは
2020年10月、時価総額$310bn, 調達額$34bnという史上最大のIPOを予定していたAlibabaグループの金融機関Ant Group。Alibaba創業者であるジャック・マーの発言が発端となった騒動によりこのIPOは延期され、Ant Groupと政府の間に大きな溝が発生しました。今回、この溝を埋めるためジャック・マーはAnt Groupの支配株主から外れることとなり、議決権は51％から6％まで下落しました。
今回はこのニュースから、中国でのAnt Groupの立場の悪化、金融機関と政府の関係、Ant Groupの業績などについて議論しました。
アリババ創業者ジャック・マー氏、アントの支配株主から外れる: 日本経済新聞
Fidelity, BlackRock Cut Fintech Giant Ant’s Valuation Lower
# 話し手
瀧 俊雄
執行役員 CoPA(Chief of Public Affairs) 兼 Fintech研究所長
https://twitter.com/sutebuu
Sandy Kimura
Money Forward USA, President
https://twitter.com/rakeemrakeem
小林 豪
Public Affairs室
https://twitter.com/GOU_00132023-01-1549 min
Just One AHarrison Hochman (Founder of Sparrow, Forbes 30 Under 30) - Just One A InterviewI had the privilege of interviewing Harrison Hochman, the Founder of Sparrow. Sparrow's mission is to make student loans more accessible and serve as the "expedia for student loans". Harrison talks about how he was inspired at Stanford by those around him as well as Plaid founder, Zach Perret. Harrison was featured in this year's Forbes 30 Under 30 for Education list and has made great strides to accomplish his mission. In this interview, Harrison and I talk about anything from his personal career path to the benefits of going to a prestigious college.2023-01-0611 min
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | InvestorsSaaStr 561: Classic Episode: The Plaid Journey with Co-Founder and CEO Zach PerretTo celebrate 10 years of SaaStr, we’re revisiting some classic podcast episodes. Up today: Plaid co-founder and CEO, Zach Perret. This interview with CNBC’s Ari Levy took place in February 2019, shortly after Plaid raised a Series C round at a $2.7B valuation. In 2021, Plaid raised their Series D at a $13.4B valuation. Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. But how do companies gain secure access to that data in the first place? Enter the platform compa...2022-06-0324 min
This Week in FinanceSoFi Growth, Fed Inflation, Rivian Stock TUMBLES, and Target's Future!Ford has decided NOT to spin off the EV business, Ukraine situation is ongoing, inflation is insane, and more on This Week in Finance! Feb 24th - Mar 3rd
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Fed: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-chairman-powell-we-should-have-moved-earlier-211146680.html
Buffett: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/26/warren-buffett-in-annual-letter-calls-apple-one-of-four-giants-driving-the-conglomerates-value.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/03/for-warren-buffett-apple-is-his-new-cola-cola-as-the-investing-icon-reaps-100-billion-in-six-years.html
Ukraine: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/youtube-joins-meta-twitter-restricting-203405686.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/01/visa-mastercard-block-russian-financial-institutions-after-sanctions.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.mobilenotes.SharingExtension
Target: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/01/how-target-plans-to-keep-growing-sales.html
JNJ: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/28/fda-approves-jjs-cell-based-multiple-myeloma-therapy-for-blood-cancer-treatment-report-says.html
Rivian: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rivian-cancels-price-hikes-existing-150920773.html
Ford: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/03/why-ford-didnt-spin-off-its-electric-vehicle-business.html
h...2022-03-0626 min
Who Dares Wins: Life, Leadership, and Finance with Anthony NotoChoosing Optionality with Zach Perret, CEO and Co-Founder of PlaidOptionality means creating the potential for more choices, but how does that translate in real life? Zach Perret, CEO and Co-Founder of Plaid and a large disruptive player in the financial system, speaks with Anthony about the choices he made that took him from the science labs at Duke to being an entrepreneur of a Fintech unicorn, and maintaining that optionality both in his life and business. Anthony also sits down with Josh Fagen, a longtime trusted advisor of Anthony’s, about what he thinks about the “Great Resignation”, what it means for people and business, and how to balanc...2022-03-0254 min
Village Global PodcastGreatest Hits: The State and Future of Fintech with Zach Perret and David HaberErik is joined by Zach Perret (@zachperret), co-founder and CEO of Plaid, and David Haber (@dhaber), former co-founder and CEO of Bond Street, now at Goldman Sachs.Zach and David talk about how they met and how they started their respective companies. They explain how to find out whether you are passionate enough about an idea to start a company around it: are you passionate about it enough to be willing to pound the table to get your mother-in-law to invest?David points out that 90% of your work as a founder is selling — to investors, employees, cu...2021-09-1354 min
a16z LiveGood Time Show with Plaid CEO Zach PerretThis podcast is an excerpt. Follow the a16z Club to join conversations with tech founders, builders, and leaders live and in-full.In this episode: The abandoned M&A with Visa [3:47]Communicating to employees around the M&A [8:29]Plaid's near death experiences in the early days [12:41]The fintech trends that made Plaid possible [17:29]What is a bank now? [26:54]Fintech and new revenue models [29:20]Plaid's role in the creator economy [35:21]What is a neobank? [37:30]
2021-06-1840 min
BrainstormMore People Moving Their Financial Lives OnlineWhen was the last time you visited a bank branch? Called a broker to make a stock trade? Paid the babysitter in cash? Increasingly, our financial lives are online. And in today's Brainstorm podcast we dig into the growth of the fintech industry.
First up, Matt Harris, a partner at Bain Capital Ventures. He's been closely following - and investing in - the intersection of finance and technology for over twenty years.
Zach Perret is the co-founder and CEO of Plaid whose technology allows many of your favorite financial apps to connect with your bank account. The number of fintech com...2021-06-1032 min
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'ShaughnessyZach Perret – The Future of Financial Services – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.13]Zach Perret is the founder and CEO of Plaid. Plaid helps companies build fintech solutions by creating APIs that allow people to connect their financial data to apps and services. In this conversation, we dive into Zach's philosophy on building products, how the financial system works today, how the financial system needs to be updated, and the trends Zach is seeing from the next wave of fintech companies launching on Plaid. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Zach Perret. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content check out https://www.jo...2020-12-2459 min
Tearsheet Podcast: Exploring financial services together'There were other great services, but banking was kind of static': Mercury's Immad AkhundWelcome to the Tearsheet Podcast. I’m Tearsheet Editor in Chief, Zack Miller.
As a founder of a tech startup, Immad Akhund found that the banks his firm used were all lost in the sea of mediocrity and sameness. He was surrounded by services in other parts of his business that were fresh, fast and worked well. His frustration with banking led him to found and lead Mercury, a bank for startups. The company has a lot of big Silicon Valley names as angel investors — people like Andreesen Horowitz, Plaid’s Zach Perret, Allison Barr from Uber Money, Bill Clerico at WeP...2020-11-0224 minTearsheet Podcast: Exploring Financial Services Together'There were other great services, but banking was kind of static': Mercury's Immad AkhundWelcome to the Tearsheet Podcast. I’m Tearsheet Editor in Chief, Zack Miller.
As a founder of a tech startup, Immad Akhund found that the banks his firm used were all lost in the sea of mediocrity and sameness. He was surrounded by services in other parts of his business that were fresh, fast and worked well. His frustration with banking led him to found and lead Mercury, a bank for startups. The company has a lot of big Silicon Valley names as angel investors — people like Andreesen Horowitz, Plaid’s Zach Perret, Allison Barr from Uber Money, Bill Clerico at WeP...2020-11-0224 min
All HandsThe Power of Positivity with Zach PerretThis podcast is brought to you by Lattice. Learn more about how Lattice can help your business stay people focused at https://lattice.com/
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Bank On ItEpisode 307 (remote) Naftali Harris from SentilinkWelcome to our second remote interview produced using the ListenDeck audio production system. This is an episode where the show host John Siracusa and his guest Naftali Harris recorded in two different locations yet sound like they’re in the same room. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. In this episode the host John Siracusa chats remotely with Naftali Harris, co-founder and CEO of Sentilink. SentiLink, is a technology company that helps detect an...2020-04-2333 min
RebankThe Curious Phenomenon of Synthetic Fraud with SentiLinkNaftali Harris is the Co-Founder and CEO of SentiLink, a synthetic fraud prevention company. Naftali was the first data science hire at Affirm, where he built some of the lender’s first fraud models. For the past couple years, Naftali has been working to solve the problem of synthetic fraud, a surprisingly pervasive and little-discussed source of credit losses for banks. Earlier this year, SentiLink raised a $14 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, in which Affirm's Max Levchin, and Plaid CEO Zach Perret also participated. In addition to the in...2019-10-1028 min
Rebank: Fintech AnalysisThe Curious Phenomenon of Synthetic Fraud with SentiLinkNaftali Harris is the Co-Founder and CEO of SentiLink, a synthetic fraud prevention company. Naftali was the first data science hire at Affirm, where he built some of the lender’s first fraud models. For the past couple years, Naftali has been working to solve the problem of synthetic fraud, a surprisingly pervasive and little-discussed source of credit losses for banks. Earlier this year, SentiLink raised a $14 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, in which Affirm's Max Levchin, and Plaid CEO Zach Perret also participated. In addition to the in...2019-10-1028 min
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over TimeImmad Akhund is the Founder & CEO @ Mercury, the startup that makes bank accounts that help tech companies scale. To date, Immad has raised funding from some of the best in the business including a16z and CRV on the fund side and then individuals including Elad Gil, Airtable's Howie Liu, Plaid's Zach Perret, Naval Ravikant, Justin Kan and OpenDoor's Eric Wu. Prior to founding Mercury, Immad held enjoyed numerous different roles including being a part-time partner at Y Combinator and then also founding HeyZap, building developer tools for mobile game developers, ultimately acquired in 2016. In Today’s Episode...2019-09-2034 min
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | InvestorsSaaStr 258: Plaid CEO and Co-Founder Zach Perret on How to Build a Platform that Fuels an EcosystemCompanies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. But how do companies gain secure access to that data in the first place? Enter the platform company. Hear from Plaid co-founder and CEO, Zach Perret and CNBC's Ari Levy as he walks through his lessons learned building Plaid and how it found itself at the center of the fintech ecosystem. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can...2019-08-1524 min
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | InvestorsSaaStr: 258: Plaid CEO and Co-Founder Zach Perret on How to Build a Platform that Fuels an EcosystemCompanies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. But how do companies gain secure access to that data in the first place? Enter the platform company. Hear from Plaid co-founder and CEO, Zach Perret and CNBC's Ari Levy as he walks through his lessons learned building Plaid and how it found itself at the center of the fintech ecosystem. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can f...2019-08-1524 min
Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS332. Interviews: Money20/20 CEO special
For this weeks episode we had the chance to sit down with the CEOs of some of the most interesting companies from Money20/20 in Amsterdam! We got some really interesting insights, found out secrets to success and what the future holds for these companies.
First up, Jason Bates meets Ralph Hamers, CEO of ING! Last year, Ralph gave a keynote speech at Money20/20 and he tells us what has changed in a years time. Ralph gives us his insights on the digitalisation of banking and how mobile first is rapidly becoming the new normal! If you want...2019-06-211h 23
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch20VC: Plaid's Zach Perret on Why You Have To Hire For Spikes and What That Really Means, Fintech Predictions From Incumbent Entrants To The Rise of Europe & The 2 Big Questions That CEOs Should Ask ThemselvesZach Perret is the Founder & CEO @ Plaid, the startup providing the easiest way for users to connect their bank accounts to an app whether it be transactions, identity or authentication. To date, Zach has raised over $300m with Plaid from some of the best in the business including Mary Meeker, Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis, Spark and Homebrew, just to name a few. As for Zach, as CEO he has scaled Plaid to today with over 300 employees, 3 international offices and over 10Bn transactions analysed. Prior to founding Plaid, Zach was a consultant @ Bain. In Today’s Episode You Wi...2019-06-0732 minVillage Global PodcastThe State and Future of Fintech with Zach Perret and David HaberErik is joined by Zach Perret (@zachperret), co-founder and CEO of Plaid, and David Haber (@dhaber), former co-founder and CEO of Bond Street, now at Goldman Sachs.Zach and David talk about how they met and how they started their respective companies. They explain how to find out whether you are passionate enough about an idea to start a company around it: are you passionate about it enough to be willing to pound the table to get your mother-in-law to invest?David points out that 90% of your work as a founder is selling — to investors, employees, cu...2019-04-0455 min
The Fintech Moshpit - Powered by Carolina Fintech HubDebating 2019 Fintech PredictionsThe Fintech Moshpit comes together in this episode to discuss predictions made by Plaid CEO Zach Perret on what 2019 has in store on the Fintech front. Spot on or fake news? Tune in to listen to the debate.
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It's Acadiana: Out to LunchIndoors - Out to Lunch - It's AcadianaFor a great deal of the time humans have been walking around on Earth we were like other species. We spent most of our time outdoors and built shelters to sleep in, or to take refuge from severe weather. Somewhere along the line, that changed. Now most of we humans spend most of our lives indoors. Inside buildings. Our structures have become far more than just shelters. Some are essential to industry and business. Others have become expressions of our personality or symbols of our social status. Peter s lunch guests on this edition of Out to Lunch create both...2017-08-0928 min
FT Banking WeeklyItalian banks, UK stress test results and US fintechPatrick Jenkins and guests discuss the outlook for Italian banks ahead of Sunday's referendum, UK stress tests and why RBS failed, and a new mood of co-operation between US banks and fintech companies. With special guests James Sym, fund manager at Schroders, and Zach Perret, CEO of US fintech company Plaid.
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