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Fintech Leaders

Hosted by Miguel Armaza · business · EN-US

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About this Podcast:

Learn from today’s global leaders building the organizations that will dominate the 21st century in fintech, business, and beyond.

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Public web form

Booking probability

34%

Guest openness

Selective

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Questions about Fintech Leaders

Who hosts Fintech Leaders?

Fintech Leaders is hosted by Miguel Armaza. The show has published 209 episodes to date.

What has Fintech Leaders covered recently?

Recent episodes include "a16z’s David Haber: Recording Every Meeting, Firm Over Fund & Why Fund Size Equals Conviction" (28 October 2026, 57 minutes), "Nubank’s Co-Founder on Winning 140M Customers & Expanding to the US" (13 October 2026, 51 minutes), and "Taktile’s CEO Raised $190M Betting Most Bank Jobs Won't Exist in 10 Years" (22 September 2026, 55 minutes).

How often does Fintech Leaders publish?

Fintech Leaders publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 50 minutes across 209 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Fintech Leaders?

Booking probability for Fintech Leaders is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Fintech Leaders requires a Pod Score of 84 or higher. Fintech Leaders's contact route on record: public web form.

Who should pitch Fintech Leaders?

The strongest fits for Fintech Leaders are Investing & Wealth Management and Lending & Credit Cards. Fintech Leaders has a business audience.

About the host

Miguel Armaza hosts Fintech Leaders, a business podcast with 209 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Episode #210

    a16z’s David Haber: Recording Every Meeting, Firm Over Fund & Why Fund Size Equals Conviction

    Oct 28, 202657 min

    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...

  • Episode #209

    Nubank’s Co-Founder on Winning 140M Customers & Expanding to the US

    Oct 13, 202651 min

    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...

  • Episode #208

    Taktile’s CEO Raised $190M Betting Most Bank Jobs Won't Exist in 10 Years

    Sep 22, 202655 min

    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...

  • Episode #207

    Harshil Mathur, Razorpay CEO: Building India's Dominant Payments Company

    Sep 10, 202659 min

    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...

  • Episode #206

    Mikhail Lomtadze, Kaspi CEO - From Super App to Everyday AI Assistant

    Aug 11, 202649 min

    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...

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  • Episode #205

    Rain, Farooq Malik - The $2Bn Company Building the Infrastructure for Stablecoins and Tokenized Money

    Jul 7, 202658 min

    Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Farooq Malik, CEO & Co-Founder of Rain, a $2Bn company that’s building infrastructure for Stablecoin-powered products, including card issuing, payments, wallets, and much more for...

  • Episode #204

    How Slash Grew From $10 to $300 Million in 2+ Years. Victor Cardenas, CEO & Co-Founder of Slash

    Jun 9, 202652 min

    Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Victor Cardenas, Co-Founder and CEO of Slash, one of the fastest growing fintechs in America that went from $10M to $300M in annualized revenue in 24 months And just crossed a $1.4...

  • Episode #203

    Max Levchin - Building Affirm, PayPal, and Why He Only Starts Network Businesses

    May 26, 202655 min

    Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Max Levchin, Co-Founder and CEO of Affirm and one of the living legends of tech and fintech. He co-founded PayPal with Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, invented anti-fraud technology that's...

  • Episode #202

    Rob Heyvaert, Motive Partners Founder: Investing Billions to Build the Future of Finance

    May 13, 202653 min

    Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Rob Heyvaert, Founder and Managing Partner of Motive Partners, a fintech-focused private equity firm with over $6Bn in AUM, 80 portfolio companies representing over $15 trillion of...

  • Episode #201

    Renaud Laplanche on Building Upgrade to a $7.3Bn Giant, Reinventing the Credit Card, and Shipping AI-Native Products

    Apr 30, 202641 min

    Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Renaud Laplanche, Co-Founder and CEO of Upgrade, a consumer fintech valued at $7.3 billion. Since 2017, Upgrade has originated over $45 billion in credit to 7.5 million customers...

  • Episode #200

    The Trader Who Builds Billion-Dollar Companies: Tom Sosnoff on Thinkorswim, Tasty, and What Comes Next

    Apr 14, 20261 hour

    Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Tom Sosnoff, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in financial services. Tom spent 19 years on Chicago’s CBOE trading floor and then left to build Thinkorswim, the first online...

  • Episode #199

    Is Finance Technology? How Founders Can Avoid the Mistakes That Kill Fintech Companies

    Mar 31, 202644 min

    Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Andrew Endicott, fintech entrepreneur and my co-founder at Gilgamesh Ventures. Andrew is also the author of the recent book "Is Finance Technology?", a practical guide for founders...

  • Episode #198

    Lesaka - Building Africa's Leading Fintech as a Publicly Traded Company, with Ali Mazanderani

    Mar 24, 202651 min

    Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Ali Mazanderani, Chairman of Lesaka, a nasdaq traded, leading fintech in Southern Africa with over $400 million in revenue and 2 million active customers. Ali is a fintech veteran...

  • Episode #197

    Sequoia's George Robson: An Inside Look at Sequoia and What it Takes to Build Generational Companies

    Mar 10, 202648 min

    Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews George Robson , Partner at Sequoia Capital , one of the most legendary venture firms in the world. Founded in 1972 by Don Valentine, Sequoia has backed some of the most...

  • Episode #196

    Michael Calvey: The Investor Behind Multiple $20+ Billion Companies

    Feb 24, 20261h 8m

    Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Michael Calvey, one of the most successful and legendary emerging markets investors of our time. Mike moved to Moscow at age 27 in the early 90s and built Baring Vostok into...

  • Episode #195

    Why Zero Hash Rejected a $2Bn Offer to Build the Future of Financial Infrastructure - Edward Woodford, CEO

    Feb 10, 202637 min

    Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza welcomes Edward Woodford, founder and CEO of ZeroHash, to Fintech Leaders for a candid, insightful conversation on the future of blockchain infrastructure and the lessons learned from...

  • Episode #194

    Uzum, from 0 to $1.5Bn in Four Years. Building Uzbekistan's First Tech Unicorn. Nikolay Seleznev, Co-Founder

    Jan 28, 202638 min

    Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Nikolay Seleznev, Co-Founder of Uzum, Uzbekistan’s first tech unicorn rewriting the playbook for e-commerce and fintech in Central Asia. From Moscow to Tashkent, Nikolay...

  • Episode #193

    How Deel Built a $17 Billion Company in 7 Years - Dan Westgarth, COO

    Jan 13, 202639 min

    Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews returning guest Dan Westgarth , COO of Deel , the company that's redefining how businesses hire and pay talent anywhere in the world. Deel has grown into one of the most...

  • Episode #192

    FinTech's Multi-Billion Comeback: Steve McLaughlin (FT Partners), From Darkest Days to Record Deals

    Dec 9, 202531 min

    Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza recorded this episode at FinTech Nerdcon in Miami with Steve McLaughlin, Founder and CEO of FT Partners, the largest fintech-focused investment bank. Since 2001, Steve has built a...

  • Episode #191

    How René Lacerte Built Bill.com into a Multi-Billion FinTech Powerhouse that Processes 1% of US GDP Annually

    Nov 25, 202553 min

    Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with René Lacerte , founder and CEO of Bill , one of the fintech industry’s most successful and enduring leaders. From building PayCycle in the 1990s to now leading a...

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