The F in Tech Podcast

Elliott Gotkine
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Fintech founding myths from the pioneering innovators, entrepreneurs and investors who turned their disruptive visions into reality. Hosted by broadcaster Elliott Gotkine the F in Tech podcast lifts the lid on fintech founders whose journeys of genius - and despair - are  changing our lives, mostly for the better.  The F in Tech podcast is co-produced in 2021 by the Paris Fintech Forum with the support of bpifrance acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information

  1. Credit Kudos Founder & CEO, Freddy Kelly

    12/24/2021

    Credit Kudos Founder & CEO, Freddy Kelly

    When he got his first taste of startup life, in San Francisco, freshly-graduated Freddy Kelly did a few months at culinary school on the side. Little did he know that years later, his baking skills would help him blag his way into a conference by virtue of a chocolate cake he'd baked. He met Credit Kudos's first investor there, and his fintech - an open banking credit-reference company - was off to the races. It hasn't stopped running since.

    33 min

  2. 12/17/2021

    Bankin' Co-Founder & CEO, Joan Burkovic

    In its early days, banks tried to block Bankin’. Some set up call centres, warning customers of the danger of using the personal finance app, and encouraging them not to use it. On one occasion, they even called Joan, not realising that he was the fintech's co-founder. Nowadays, with open banking, it's a different story; banks, for the most part, are cooperative. And Bankin' is now blossoming into one of Europe’s leading consumer finance apps - with a potential B2B spinoff to boot.

    33 min
  3. Banxware Founder & Co-CEO, Miriam Wohlfarth

    12/10/2021

    Banxware Founder & Co-CEO, Miriam Wohlfarth

    Some people thought launching a fintech during a pandemic was crazy. Then Banxware - a Germany-based, white-labelled SME lending platform - saw its banking partner, Wirecard, blow up. Since then, it's been relatively plain sailing!

    32 min

  4. 11/26/2021

    Alpaca Co-Founder & CEO Yoshi Yokokawa

    How Yoshi Yokokawa is enabling the world to have Robinhood-style access to financial markets and crypto, and why the Alpaca co-founder & CEO feels the furry camel cousin best symbolises this ambition.

    36 min

  5. 11/19/2021

    Wakam CEO Olivier Jaillon

    How Olivier Jaillon cheated death, and survived the failure of his U.S. startup, to reinvent a 200-year old insurer-turned-insurtech, Wakam.

    37 min
  6. Elinvar Co-founder & CEO, Chris Bartz

    11/12/2021

    Elinvar Co-founder & CEO, Chris Bartz

    How having investors from day one helped wealth management platform, Elinvar, get off to a flying start, and why co-founder and CEO, Chris Bartz, says that doesn’t mean there was any less pressure. Fun fact: "elinvar" is an alloy of iron, nickel, chromium, and other constituents, resistant to rust and magnetization and having a low rate of thermal expansion.

    29 min

  7. 11/05/2021

    Bitbond Co-Founder & CEO, Radko Albrecht

    Aged 14, Radko Albrecht, was one of Germany’s top figure skaters. A child of Slovakian refugees, he was on track to become an Olympian, something that would have required focus, dedication and the ability to pick yourself up when you’re down. He never made it to the Olympics, but those same skills have come in handy with his chosen path: founding BitBond, which helps banks and intermediaries issue and securitize bonds using blockchain technology and tokenization.

    36 min

  8. 10/22/2021

    iwoca Co-founder & CEO, Christoph Rieche

    When Christoph Rieche told colleagues at Goldman Sachs he was leaving to set up iwoca, some of them thought he was crazy. Others were jealous. Ten years later, the second group would appear to have been right: iwoca has now helped more than 65,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) gain access to capital. It's building out new products all the time, raising $350m in debt and equity capital along the way. And although Christoph's creative talents may not have come up to snuff for him to have become an architect, the businesses iwoca has helped people to build may end up having an even bigger impact than any structure he may have designed.

    33 min
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Fintech founding myths from the pioneering innovators, entrepreneurs and investors who turned their disruptive visions into reality. Hosted by broadcaster Elliott Gotkine the F in Tech podcast lifts the lid on fintech founders whose journeys of genius - and despair - are  changing our lives, mostly for the better.  The F in Tech podcast is co-produced in 2021 by the Paris Fintech Forum with the support of bpifrance acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information

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  • Creator
    Elliott Gotkine
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    46
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Elliott Gotkine