Fintech Brainfood Simon Taylor

Financial services could be much lower cost and much more rewarding if we structurally attacked cost. Meow is attacking this head on. In the fifth interview from the B2B Fintech series, Brandon Arvanaghi, CEO of Meow, covers:

Why financial services is a commodity
How intentionally driving out cost creates a better deal for customers
Operating an ultra-lean business on razor-thin margins
The perfect timing of launching “max FDIC” coverage
The further an executive is from the customer the worse the product is
One of the GOAT pivots from selling DeFi yield to selling Treasuries

Mercury hit 8 Quarters of profit and has more cash on its balance sheet than it has raised. Immad believes the account is the wedge to build a financial platform. In this episode

How the account becomes a platform you can build much more from
How Fintech is much more complex than a software business
Why learning all of the non software stuff (like compliance) is critical to long term viability
The importance of owning UX
Why customer support tickets should drive your UX roadmap
The founder-led Go-To-Market
What it will take for Mercury to win

In a world filled with CFO tools and giants like Ramp, Mercury, and Brex, what would make a new competitor stand out?

In the second interview from the B2B Fintech series, Don Muir, CEO of Arc, takes through.

Compliance as a competitive advantage
What SVB and FRB always did well and their role in the Tech ecosystem
The gap they left
The power of a debt marketplace
Understanding capital markets for growth companies
How to compete when you've got bigger competitors
What it will take for Arc to win

Hey Fintech Nerds 👋,

Can owning Fintech Infrastructure help companies scale globally?

In this second interview from the B2B Fintech series, Pedro Franchesci, Co-CEO of Brex, gives Fintech operator level depth on 👇

🧠 Why being Vertically Integrated is a structural advantage
🧠 Why Quarterly releases > Incremental updates
🧠 How Brex goes global
🧠 How Brex can compete

Eric Glyman, CEO of Ramp, explains how they became the ultimate growth Fintech company

How Ramp leverages partners
The Ramp philosophy on shipping fast
Figuring out the company equation
Why B2B Fintech is hot
What it will take for Ramp to win

Fintech Brainfood. A podcast about building fintech companies, and making finance better with technology.