This Month in Fintech
This Month in Fintech is our premiere showcase podcast. Each month, Sasha Pilch will have a deep 1:1 conversation with the leaders in the fintech arena, exploring questions about the industries next moves, where to focus energies, and how to lead into the next chapters and paradigm shifting technologies change everything again.
Episodes
10 episodes
Scaling Finance From Startup To IPO with Wealthfront's Alan Imberman
Sasha Pilch is joined by Alan Imberman, CFO at Wealthfront, to talk about what it really takes to scale a modern fintech from early scrappiness to a successful IPO, without losing the product instincts that got you there.The conversatio...
How AI Shopping Moves From Chat To Checkout with Adyen's Karan Katyal
AI is changing how people shop, but the real story is what happens after the recommendation. When buying moves into ChatGPT-style interfaces, merchants suddenly face a new maze of platforms, protocols, and trust questions and nobody wants to re...
Why Finance Teams Are Moving From Cloud to AI
In this episode, host Sasha Pilch sits down with John Glasgow, CEO and CFO of Campfire, to explore what it takes to build an AI-native ERP for modern finance teams.John shares why the next major shift in accounting software is not from o...
How Experian Is Making Agentic Commerce Trustworthy
AI agents can already shop, compare prices, and check out for you — but would you actually trust one with your credit card?In this episode of This Month in Fintech host Sasha Pilch sits down with Kathleen Peters, Chief Innovatio...
From Screen Scraping to Open Banking with Ximena Aleman
In this episode of This Month in Fintech, Sasha Pilch sits down with Ximena Aleman, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Prometeo, to unpack what it really takes to build a single banking API across Latin America and the US.They dig into th...
Leading FIS Through A Fintech Reset with Stephanie Ferris
We talk with FIS CEO Stephanie Ferris about building a career by leaning into risk, leading teams through complex M&A, and simplifying a legacy fintech business to focus on financial institutions. We also dig into why trust is the real infr...
AI, Automation, and the Future of Fintech Platforms with Diya Jolly
We sit down with Xero’s CTO/CPO Diya Jolly to unpack how AI, product conviction, and human judgment are reshaping small business finance. From JAX, Xero’s financial superagent, to passwordless lessons at Okta, we dig into saving time, making be...
This Month in Fintech with Sasha Pilch
Announcing the next chapter of the This Month in Fintech Podcast.We are excited to welcome Sasha Pilch as the new host, leading conversations with the founders, operators, and thinkers shaping the future of fintech.Each episode wi...
Sierra CEO & OpenAI Chair Bret Taylor - Live at M2020. AI Bubbles, SaaS Future, and Why Sierra WinsUntitled Episode
In today’s episode, Ryan Zauk sits down with Bret Taylor, Co-Founder & CEO of Sierra and Chairman of the Board at OpenAI. Bret’s career is the stuff of valley legend…he is the former Co-CEO of Salesforce, former CTO of Facebook...
Anthropic's Kate Earle Jensen: Enabling AI in the Enterprise
In today’s episode, Ryan Zauk sits down with Kate Earle Jensen, Head of Americas for Anthropic. Kate joined Anthropic in 2023 after 8 years helping scale GTM at Stripe. Over the last 2 years, she has had a front row seat to the AI revolution at...