Fintech & payments

Season 12

S12 Bonus: The Dashboard Mirage: Why Aggregate Metrics Hide Revenue Leaks and the Rise of Autonomous, Agentic Analytics with Bhaskar Sunkara, Founder & CEO of Bicycle AI

Building the 24x7 Revenue Analyst

Jul 16, 2026 · 30 min

Season 12 · Episode 5

S12 E5: The Flying Drone Fallacy: Why Forklift Computer Vision Beats Full Automation and the Rise of the Autonomous Warehouse AI Agent with Marc Gyöngyösi, Founder & CEO of OneTrack

Bringing physical operations to the digital world with AI

Feb 10, 2026 · 25 min

Season 12 · Episode 1

S12 E1: The Blast Radius Nightmare: Shifting from Blind Static Terraform Plans to Real-Time Predictive Change Intelligence with Dylan Ratcliffe, Founder & CEO of Overmind

Discovering all your dependencies... BEFORE you press the button.

Jan 13, 2026 · 33 min

Season 11 · Episode 14

S11 E14: Dismantling the "Data Team Bottleneck" with Watsonx-Powered Generative Business Intelligence (GenBI) with Avi Perez, Co-Founder & CTO of Pyramid Analytics

Business intelligence at the speed of your business

Aug 26, 2025 · 32 min

Season 11

S11 Bonus: The Modern Playbook for Pioneering 'Feature Flags as a Measurement Layer' with Trevor Stuart, Co-Founder of Split & GM/SVP of Feature Management at Harness

The best of the best in feature flagging joins Harness

Aug 7, 2025 · 27 min

Season 11

S11 Bonus: Redefining the Merchant Lifecycle, Reducing Integration Friction, and Capitalizing on the Gen Z Tap-to-Mobile Shift with Tiffany Johnson, Chief Product Officer at NMI

Embedded Payments for your application

Jul 31, 2025 · 22 min

Season 11

S11 Bonus: The Weekend Prototype Pivot: Transitioning from FinTech DevOps to Advancing AI Research Infrastructure with David Asamu, Co-Founder of Nesla

Research for the next wave of AI

Jun 4, 2025 · 19 min

Season 10

S10 Favorite: The Trillion-User Scalability Crisis: Re-Architecting Bitcoin’s Layer 2 for Instant, Enterprise-Grade Global Liquidity with Kevin Hurley, Co-Founder & CTO of Lightspark

Lightning fast payments, using blockchain

May 13, 2025 · 24 min

Season 10 · Episode 29

S10 E29: The Merchant of Record Shift: Scaling Global SaaS Revenue and Simplifying International Tax Compliance with Lucas Lovell, VP of Engineering at Paddle

Seamless payments as the merchant of record MOR

Apr 22, 2025 · 27 min

Season 10

S10 Bonus: The Decentralized Data Engine: Monetizing Enterprise AI Datasets and Regulating Model Training Access with Don Gossen, Co-Founder & CEO of Nevermined

Payments for AI Agent Transactions

Mar 20, 2025 · 32 min

Season 10 · Episode 22

S10 E22: Zero Tax Liability from Day One: How to Automate Global SaaS Compliance and Sell in 220+ Countries with Ayush Agarwal, Co-Founder & CPTO of Dodo Payments

Cross border, global payments for India & emerging markets

Mar 4, 2025 · 20 min

Season 10

S10 Bonus: The Education-First Fintech Shift: Using AI Decision Engines to Simplify Investing for Everyday Earners with Jason Schappert, Co-Founder & CEO of Moola

Helping you shape your finances for success

Feb 20, 2025 · 31 min

Season 10

Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Imad Gharazeddine, CEO of Mamo

Minting Unicorns - Dubai & Mamo

Feb 12, 2025 · 16 min

Season 10 · Episode 19

S10 E19: Generative Remixes: Scaling Social Music Creation Tools and Unlocking Fair Artist Monetization with Simmi Singh, COO & Chief Product Officer of Hook Music

Express yourself with music remixes and mashups

Feb 11, 2025 · 38 min

Season 10

Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Mohammad Albalooshi, CEO, DIFC Innovation Hub

Minting Unicorns - Dubai & the DIFC Innovation Center

Feb 5, 2025 · 23 min

Season 10

Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Dr. Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of AI

Minting Unicorns - Dubai & Dr. Marwan, CEO of AI

Jan 29, 2025 · 25 min

Season 10

Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Sonia Gokhale, VentureSouq

Minting Unicorns - Dubai & VentureSouq

Dec 11, 2024 · 19 min

Season 10

Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Raakin Iqbal, Nucleus AI

Minting Unicorns - Dubai & Nucleus AI

Dec 4, 2024 · 27 min

Season 10

The Haunted House of APIs - Phantom Threats with Adam Arellano

The Haunted House of APIs - Phantom Threats

Oct 29, 2024 · 18 min

Season 10 · Episode 4

S10 E4: Open Banking Infra: Replacing Insecure Credential-Sharing with Safe Open Brokerage APIs for Millions of Retail Accounts with Brendan Wood, Co-Founder & CEO of SnapTrade

Building the Plaid for Broker Accounts

Sep 24, 2024 · 21 min

Season 10 · Episode 3

S10 E3: The Trillion-User Scalability Crisis: Re-Architecting Bitcoin’s Layer 2 for Instant, Enterprise-Grade Global Liquidity with Kevin Hurley, Co-Founder & CTO of Lightspark

Lightning fast payments, using blockchain

Sep 17, 2024 · 24 min

Season 9

S9 Bonus: Overthrowing DM Spam and Engineering Frictionless, Real-Time Paid Audio Consulting with Jason R. Hill, Founder of Owwll

Jul 5, 2024 · 35 min

Season 9

S9 Bonus: From 13 Years of Bootstrapping to Defying the Tech Winter: Stripping Away the Flat 2.9% Fee Monopoly by Owning the Full Payment Stack With Nic Beique of Helcim

Square for grown-ups

May 23, 2024 · 25 min

Season 9 · Episode 23

S9 E23: The $120M War Chest Shift: Overthrowing Legacy Payment Bottlenecks and Accelerating the Path to Fintech Unicorn Status with Vlad Sadovskiy, Founder & CEO of Netevia

Digital banking for gig workers and the reseller community

May 7, 2024 · 19 min

Season 9

S9 Bonus: The Expedia of InsurTech: Overthrowing Health Insurance Jargon and Engineering AI-Powered Personalized Enrollment Rails with Ariel Dominguez & Irena Tigranyan, Co-Founders of HealthBird

Tech AI driven health insurance platform

Dec 20, 2023 · 44 min

Season 9 · Episode 3

S9 E3: Embedded Lending Infrastructure and Navigating Emerging Market API Scaling with Reinis Simanovskis, Co-Founder & CPO of Finfra

Financial infrastructure based in Jakarta

Dec 12, 2023 · 23 min

Season 9

S9 Bonus: Programmatic Venture Finance and Algorithmic Cash Management with Raven Jiang, Co-Founder & CTO of Arc

Seamless revenue financing and fintech platform

Dec 7, 2023 · 21 min

Season 9 · Episode 2

S9 E2: The Embedded Payroll Fabric: Bypassing Legacy Monoliths with Developer-First Fintech APIs and Multi-State Compliance Rails with Juan Barroso, Co-Founder & CTO of Salsa

Developer infrastructure for payroll

Dec 5, 2023 · 18 min

Season 8

S8 Bonus: Building High-Performance Metadata Processing Engines and Drag-and-Drop Mapping with Ibrahim Surani & Jay Mishra of Astera

Bridging the gap with data utility and transformation

Oct 19, 2023 · 24 min

Season 8

Beyond Bots - Daniel Jordan, Wayflyer

Funding for eCommerce, using data enrichment

Jul 28, 2023 · 23 min

Season 8

S8 Bonus: The $15M Bootstrapped Pivot: Tech-ifying Private Capital Markets and Engineering a Compliance-First OS for Investment Bankers with David Frank, Founder & CEO of Stonehaven

Platform OS for running financial businesses

Jul 27, 2023 · 27 min

Season 8 · Episode 15

S8 E15: The B2B Cash Collection Tech Problem: Eradicating Manual Invoice Friction and Predictably Reducing DSO with Alex Louisy, Co-Founder & CEO of Upflow

Streamling the process for AR collection

Jul 25, 2023 · 31 min

Season 6

Beyond Bots - Bryce Crawford, Meow

Meow and Ntropy - dual customers, pursuing the next age of fintech

Jul 21, 2023 · 14 min

Season 8

Beyond Bots - Ilia Zintchenko, Ntropy

Beyond Bots: The REAL Impact of AI on Financial Services

Jul 14, 2023 · 19 min

Season 8

Beyond Bots - Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy

Beyond Bots: The REAL Impact of AI on Financial Services

Jul 7, 2023 · 19 min

Season 8 · Episode 9

S8 E9: The Death of the Separated Bank and Spreadsheet: Automating Solopreneur Taxes at the Swipe of a Card with Lilac Bar David, Co-Founder & CEO of Lili

Banking built for business

Jun 13, 2023 · 20 min

Season 8 · Episode 6

S8 E6: The $1B Treasury Lifeboat: Engineering Compliance-First Yield and Business Banking for Startups with Bryce Crawford, Co-Founder & CTO of Meow

Treasury management for businesses

May 23, 2023 · 21 min

Season 7

S7 Bonus: The Shopify for Fintech: Engineering Low-Code Financial Rails with Ruben Izmailyan of Quiltt

Infrastructure for financial data

Mar 30, 2023 · 28 min

Season 7 · Episode 28

S7 E28: The Elixir Stack Behind a $5B Payments Engine: Scaling Vertical SaaS with Sean Stavropoulos of Boulevard

All in one platform for self care businesses

Mar 21, 2023 · 24 min

Season 7 · Episode 27

S7 E27: Automating the SOC2 Compliance Trap: Slack-First Identity Governance with Mathias Nestler of AccessOwl

Provide access to your team, directly from Slack

Mar 14, 2023 · 22 min

Season 7

S7 Bonus: The Real-Time Arcade: Engineering Instant Leaderboard Micropayments with Joe De Pinto of Haste Arcade

Make Bitcoin, just by being on the leaderboard

Feb 9, 2023 · 31 min

Season 7

S7 Favorite: Bypassing Data Brokers: Generating Real-Time Phantom Phone Numbers, Emails, and Credit Cards with Arjun Bhatnagar of Cloaked

Privacy for your contact information

Jan 5, 2023 · 29 min

Season 7

S7 Bonus: The AWS of FinTech: Engineering a Multi-Processor Payment Orchestration Layer with Casey Kipfer, Co-Founder of JustiFi

Embedded payments to 5x your revenue

Dec 14, 2022 · 23 min

Season 7

S7 Bonus: The Tipping Protocol: Normalizing Mobile Payments for Home Services with Justin Clegg, Founder & CEO of Allset

Simple payments for home service businesses

Oct 19, 2022 · 23 min

Season 7

S7 Bonus: From NASA Supercomputers to a $47M Corporate Spend Ecosystem: Bridging Slack and Corporate Credit Cards with Andrew Hoag of Teampay

Procurement for everyone, including the control

Sep 7, 2022 · 26 min

Season 7

S7 Bonus: Bypassing Data Brokers: Generating Real-Time Phantom Phone Numbers, Emails, and Credit Cards with Arjun Bhatnagar of Cloaked

Remove the pressure of sharing credentials

Aug 24, 2022 · 29 min

Season 6 · Episode 29

S6 E29: Bringing GPT to Voice: Architecting Telephony Intelligence and Speech NLP with Irina Bednova, CTO of Cordless

Product-fying customer support telephony

Aug 2, 2022 · 28 min

Season 6

S6 Bonus: Moving Beyond Real-Time: Engineering Zero Trust Payment Precision with Ben Turner of Verituity

Verified payments, scheduled or on demand

Jul 7, 2022 · 22 min

Season 6

S6 Bonus: Solving the Legal Relocation Bottleneck: Scaling Fintech-Infused LegalTech with Temilola Adebayo of HumanSquad

Tools and support for the immigration process

Jun 10, 2022 · 26 min

Season 6 · Episode 16

S6 E16: Engineering the 4x Revenue Engine: Building an AI-Powered Renter FinTech Network with Jimmy Jacobson of Stake

Cash back for paying your rent

May 3, 2022 · 27 min

Season 6 · Episode 14

S6 E14: The Real-Time Ledger: How Banked Scaled Global Account-to-Account Infrastructure with Joe Pettersson

Payments built on modern banking rails

Apr 19, 2022 · 34 min

Season 6

S6 Bonus: Unifying Broken Architecture: Building the InsurTech API Data Layer and Raising $30M+ with Dan Langevin of Vericred

Seamless flow of insurance info

Apr 14, 2022 · 19 min

Season 6

S6 Bonus: The API-First Playbook: From Twilio COO to Building a $42M FinTech Engine and Exiting to FIS with Roy Ng of Bond

Banking as a service, for the Enterprise

Apr 13, 2022 · 39 min

Season 6

S6 Bonus: Leaving Lyft to Build a $1B FinTech Engine: Real Estate Syndication Architecture with Perry Zheng of Cash Flow Portal

Syndicated real estate investing

Apr 6, 2022 · 26 min

Season 6 · Episode 2

S6 E2: Scaling a $2B Neobank: Moving Money at the Edge with Current Co-Founder Trevor Marshall

Making financial value streams available to the masses

Jan 25, 2022 · 38 min

Season 5 · Episode 28

S5 E28: Putting Money on Autopilot: Building Self-Driving Banking Tech with Oona Rokyta of Lance

Revolutionizing banking for freelancers

Dec 21, 2021 · 29 min

Season 5 · Episode 24

S5 E24: Engineering a Fintech Powerhouse: Thejo Kote on Scaling and Exiting Airbase

Company spending - Visible & Optimized

Nov 23, 2021 · 47 min

Season 5

S5 Bonus: Making Data Unhackable: How to Offload PCI Compliance and Data Liability with Very Good Security (VGS)’s Mahmoud Abdelkader

Removing the Burden of Data Security

Oct 14, 2021 · 47 min

Season 5

S5 Bonus: Eliminating the Security Deposit: Scaling a $1B+ PropTech Disruptor with Paraag Sarva of Rhino

Deposit Free Renting

Sep 22, 2021 · 39 min

Season 4

The Yield Podcast by Yieldstreet

Reinventing Fintech

Apr 1, 2021 · 35 min

Season 3 · Episode 4

S4 E4: Scaling FinTech Capital Engines: How Yieldstreet Built a Multi-Billion Dollar Investment Platform with CTO Hrishi Dixit

The best way for alternative investments

Jan 26, 2021 · 44 min

Season 2

S2 Favorite: Scaling Fintech & Financial Data Infrastructure, with Ryan Graciano of Credit Karma

Scaling Fintech & Financial Data Infrastructure, with Ryan Graciano of Credit Karma

Jul 14, 2020 · 38 min

Season 2 · Episode 20

S2 E20: Data-Driven Supply Chain Logistics & E-Grocery Solutions with Daniel Gebler of Picnic

A resident of Amsterdam, Daniel Gebler found his way into tech through an artistic route - through creating demos, combining visuals and music through technology. A husband and Dad of 2, he enjoyed rock climbing, but mostly bouldering indoors - though he

Jun 23, 2020 · 34 min

Season 2 · Episode 19

S2 E19: SaaS Payment Integrations and HubSpot Fintech Extensions, with Denis Lunev of DepositFix

Nine years ago, Dennis Lunev moved from Russia to the USA. He likes to polish his skills in archery and throw axes. Previously, he was a software engineer attempting to build SaaS solutions that didn't quite pan out. Afterwards while doing integration con

Jun 16, 2020 · 24 min

Season 2

S2 Bonus: Personalized Audio of Your Grandma's Childhood Stories, with Andrew Overton of Saga

Andrew Overton is a finance grad from Howard University. He spent 3 years after graduation, in investment banking. After a while, he desired to work in tech and joined Graphiq in Santa Barbara to learn the ropes. During that time, he obtained his masters

May 6, 2020 · 31 min

Season 2 · Episode 7

S2 E7: Scaling Fintech & Financial Data Infrastructure, with Ryan Graciano of Credit Karma

Early on in his life, Ryan Graciano aspired to be many things - law, writing... and eventually coding, of course. Fun fact, he is an accomplished dog trainer. focusing on animal behavior modification - and more recently, has gotten into powerlifting. Desp

Mar 24, 2020 · 38 min

Season 2 · Episode 6

S2 E6: From the Navy to Fintech Founder: Building a Peer Lending App with Dennis Cail of Zirtue

Born in Monroe, Louisiana, Dennis Cail has been involved in the tech world since he started in the Navy. After serving in the Navy, he obtained his CS degree and an MBA in Finance. A family man and father, he realized he was having limited success in gett

Mar 17, 2020 · 27 min

Season 1 · Episode 15

S1 E15: Modernizing Bill Payments, Payouts & Invoicing Systems | Omri Mor (Routable)

Growing up in Tel Aviv, Israel, Omri Mor learned to appreciate music, art, food and other sensory experiences. After selling his first company, he and his now co-founder got together to catch up… over some pita and hummus. They began swapping stories of p

Dec 2, 2019 · 37 min

Season 1 · Episode 13

S1 E13: The Technical Journey of Moving Money via API | Ben Milne (Dwolla)

Ben Milne grew up in a small town, and has had a pretty normal life. Raising a family, riding a stationary bike and funding startups through selling music gear, he has been in the tech world for a good while. His second startup started as a consumer produ

Nov 18, 2019 · 29 min

Season 1 · Episode 12

S1 E12: Fintech Platform for Automated Lending and Loan Origination | Bernard Worthy (LoanWell)

Bernard Worthy loves to travel the world with his wife, spend time with his family and stay connected with his friends. Born and raised in Atlanta, he is a long time entrepreneur and technologist, spending many years in consulting and startups. Through so

Nov 11, 2019 · 39 min