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#PFF Fintech Founders podcast

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Fintech is not only a concept, nor is it only about money. First of all you have entrepreneurs, who decided to disrupt one of the oldest industry against the odds. Those entrepreneurs are on their way to make History, or at least they tried. But to get there, they have been through ups & downs, opportunities & pains, success & difficulties, and we are not only speaking about business. Our 6 featured guests have been trying to change the way financial industry works in many different areas : banking, insurance, payment, money transfer, lending, trading, etc... In 2022, Laurent Nizri, the founder of the Paris Fintech Forum, met in person 6 of those entrepreneurs coming from all over the world to deep dive in their journey in long and insightful conversations, far from the sales pitch, closer to an intimate dinner between old friends, to get as close as possible of the "Magic spark" behind their success. Be prepared to a quite unconventional format. Featured guests : Ricky KnoxNorris KoppelRenaud LaplancheKathryn PetraliaCyril ChicheScott Walchek This podcast of 6 exceptional episodes has been recorded from March to August this year and will be broadcasted weekly from November 9 2022.

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France

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Fintech is not only a concept, nor is it only about money. First of all you have entrepreneurs, who decided to disrupt one of the oldest industry against the odds. Those entrepreneurs are on their way to make History, or at least they tried. But to get there, they have been through ups & downs, opportunities & pains, success & difficulties, and we are not only speaking about business. Our 6 featured guests have been trying to change the way financial industry works in many different areas : banking, insurance, payment, money transfer, lending, trading, etc... In 2022, Laurent Nizri, the founder of the Paris Fintech Forum, met in person 6 of those entrepreneurs coming from all over the world to deep dive in their journey in long and insightful conversations, far from the sales pitch, closer to an intimate dinner between old friends, to get as close as possible of the "Magic spark" behind their success. Be prepared to a quite unconventional format. Featured guests : Ricky KnoxNorris KoppelRenaud LaplancheKathryn PetraliaCyril ChicheScott Walchek This podcast of 6 exceptional episodes has been recorded from March to August this year and will be broadcasted weekly from November 9 2022.

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English

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Episodes

In conversation with Scott Walchek, Founder of Trov

12/14/2022
In this episode we meet Scott Walchek, the founder of the US insurtech pioneer Trov, in the countryside of the San Francisco Bay area last may 2022 to share his incredible entrepreneur journey. Of course we all know Trov, the insurtech created 10 years ago as one of the first disruptor of the Insurance industry and recently sold to a third party. However few people are aware of the other incredible parts of Scott's life. And what a life!!! I had the idea of the #PFF Founders' podcast many...

Duration:03:15:49

In conversation with Cyril Chiche, co founder of Lydia

12/7/2022
In this episode we meet Cyril Chiche , the CEO and cofounder of Lydia, in the countryside of France to share his ongoing journey in the Fintech industry. Lydia is today one of the most famous BtoC Fintech in Europe. But as you will discover it was not granted from day 1. Try and learn, retry, fail, try again, learn, and eventually succeed. Cyril's memories are a master class for any entrepreneur. Today we deep dive into Cyril's life, from his childhood in Marseille to the hectic life of...

Duration:02:06:16

In conversation with Kathryn Petralia, co founder of Kabbage

11/30/2022
In this episode we meet Kathryn Petralia in New York to share her ongoing journey in the Fintech industry. Kathryn did not plan to be an entrepreneur and began a carrer as a litterature teacher. What a life since that time! Not only she became a top level business woman, but even a serial entrepreneur and a leading voice in our industry. In that episode we deep dive into her life and in Kabbage history including the "not so succesful" banks partnerships and the "perhaps too late" rebundling...

Duration:02:04:56

In conversation with Renaud Laplanche, CEO & co founder of Upgrade

11/23/2022
In this episode we meet Renaud Laplanche in his San Francisco office to share his ongoing journey in the Fintech industry. Renaud is a serial entrepreneur and many of us also know him because he was the founder of Lending Club. Launching a lending startup in the subprime crisis time was quite special, but in the end, as everybody knows, the story had fabulous moments leading to a record high Nasdaq intro end of 2014, and some trouble times 2 years later when he finally stepped down as CEO...

Duration:01:50:05

In conversation with Norris Koppel, CEO & Founder of Monese

11/16/2022
In this episode we meet Norris Koppel in his London office to share his ongoing journey in the Fintech industry. Serial entrepreneur (Yep, Monese is definitly not his first one), Norris shares with us without any filters his (very) personal drivers, the issues he had with past co founders and/or investors, the fabulous support of his familly even if rule number 1 was "don't lose the familly money on that fintech project", and many advices for the one who would like to launch a startup...

Duration:01:25:10

In conversation with Ricky Knox, co founder of Tandem & Azimo.

11/8/2022
In this episode we meet Ricky Knox in his house in London to share his incredible journey in the Fintech industry. Having fun, riding life at 100 miles an hour and disrupt the financial services industry are some of his drivers. Make yourself comfortable, take a coffee and let's go for 100+ minutes of close and personal conversation with Ricky. This podcast is produced thanks to the tremendous support of our sponsors Credit Mutuel Arkea - a French retail bank very active in digital in...

Duration:01:43:24