Fintech Leaders

Send us Fan Mail I sat down with David Haber, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, the venture firm managing ~$100 billion in AUM, at a16z's New York office. David has been building and investing in fintech since 2011 and thinks the first wave of fintech is one of the most thoughtful investors in the industry. We talk about firm over fund, building collective intelligence inside a firm, the Overton window on recording conversations, and why financial services may be the biggest opportunity...

Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Cristina Junqueira, co-founder of Nubank and CEO of Nubank’s U.S. operation, one day after Nubank officially launched in the United States. Founded in 2013 in a house in São Paulo, Nubank now serves over 140 million customers, 64% of Brazil’s adult population, and they have just launched their US operations. We talk about why product-led growth is a necessity rather than a strategy, why she would rather have a smaller customer base that loves the product...

Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Maik Taro Wehmeyer, co-founder and CEO of Taktile, an agentic decision platform that helps financial services companies automate their highest-stakes decisions: credit underwriting, fraud detection, and compliance. Maik and his co-founder built the company from a failed first product and 99 rejected banks into a business that just closed a $110 million round led by Goldman Sachs. Want more podcast episodes? Join me and follow Fintech Leaders today on A...

Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Harshil Mathur, Co-Founder and CEO of Razorpay, one of India’s most important fintech and tech companies. Razorpay moves hundreds of billions of dollars in annual payment volume and powers about 85% of the country’s largest tech companies. They are also reportedly preparing for a large IPO on the Indian Stock Exchange. Harshil started coding at age 12 and began building Razorpay in 2014, only a year after graduating college. Their early days were not easy...

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza flew to Almaty, Kazakhstan to sit down with Mikhail Lomtadze, CEO and Co-Founder of Kaspi, for their second conversation in two years. It is hard to explain how dominant and loved Kaspi is in this market: in a country of 20 million people, more than 15 million use the app daily, and it handles two thirds of Kazakhstan's e-commerce. What started as a traditional bank is now one of the world's most defining super apps, and it just entered a new chapter, expanding ...