The Founders Peak Podcast

Arthur Muck, co-founder of fintech U-Trip, shares his journey from designing NASA rocket engines to building a successful cross-border payment platform.

Joe Kinvey, founder of Borderless, shares his entrepreneurial journey from failing due to the 'black tax'—the pressure to send money home—to building a fintech platform that enables the global African diaspora to invest collectively in African startups.

Anna, founder of AI fintech startup Goodfin, shares her journey from Y Combinator demo day through two years of survival mode to realizing that avoiding failure isn't enough—startups must play to win.

Adib Amit, founder of Lulu Financial Holdings, shares how climbing Mount Kilimanjaro transformed his leadership approach.

Yusuke Jindo, founder of Delta Foresight and Japan's top-ranked CPA, argues that entrepreneurship is actually the conservative career path.

Kaisuke Kimura shares his journey from defying his mother's expectations of a safe corporate job to becoming an entrepreneur, exploring how he redefined safety through personal responsibility and building his own company Wakyodo after losing his job at cryptocurrency exchange Kraken.

Flynn and Wee, co-founders of blockchain cybersecurity startup Failsafe, share their philosophy of choosing 'hard mode' in entrepreneurship.

Sanjay Tripathi, co-founder of BriskPay, shares his journey from corporate executive to startup founder, revealing that the hardest pivot wasn't changing his business model but fundamentally changing himself.

Vince Visors, co-founder of telecom startup Firsty, delivers a raw, humorous talk comparing the founder journey to running a marathon.

Juan Pablo shares his journey from commercial pilot to co-founding Rappi, Latin America's biggest unicorn, and now building Uno to simplify global payments.

Joe Lu, founder of Haymax, shares how being laid off from Meta with three colleagues turned them into accidental entrepreneurs.

Vincent Isvera, CEO of Indonesian fintech Dana, shares his journey from privileged beginnings to nearly being fired from his own company, revealing how embracing an underdog mindset became his superpower.

Chinen, a founder turned VC partner, shares a raw personal narrative about how fear has been his greatest teacher in entrepreneurship.

Felix Wong, founder of IMOCA, explores whether AI can handle intimacy, sharing how a NASA astronaut's insight about loneliness in space and his girlfriend's use of ChatGPT for grief led him to build Emoca—an emotional companion robot designed with a three-layer system (soul, heart, body) to combat the global loneliness epidemic.

Brad Jones, founder of Myanmar fintech company Wave Money, shares his extraordinary journey leading the company through a military coup, global pandemic, and economic collapse.

Cho Dong, co-founder of fintech unicorn Advanced AI, shares his journey from a rural Chinese village to building a billion-dollar company.

Flexi Loans co-founders Deepak Jain and Ritesh Jain share how their fintech startup survived multiple crises through disciplined decision-making and founder trust.

Dilip Modi, founder of Indian rural fintech platform Spice Money, shares his personal journey from chasing inherited family ambition to discovering purpose through the Bhagavad Gita's concept of dharma.

Evan Burkoski, CEO of Kimaru AI and a four-time founder, argues that storytelling is the most critical survival skill for startup founders.

Rosalind, founder of CXA Group, shares her journey from corporate insurance executive to entrepreneur who built a $60M preventive healthcare platform serving over a million employees.

Ankit Rathan, co-founder of Signzy, shares the gripping survival story of his startup's near-failure in its first year.

Avital Pardo shares his journey scaling Pagaya through hypergrowth, from a pivot after investor rejection to managing chaos with people, product, and process.

Matthias Imbach, co-founder and CEO of Signum (world's first digital asset bank and Swiss fintech unicorn), delivers a raw talk on managing the intense emotional volatility of entrepreneurship.

Winston Damarillo shares his journey from a Filipino immigrant facing rejection in Silicon Valley to becoming a successful entrepreneur, explaining how the meritocracy of code became his passport and how he now applies open source principles to drive financial inclusion through his startup Higala.

Hosts introduce a new season focused on resilience, featuring startup founders sharing hard-won lessons and stories of thriving against odds.

A fintech CEO discusses the unique advantages female founders have in building resilient and profitable businesses.

A founder recounts how his company's over-reliance on a single lending partner nearly broke the business and the lesson learned from walking away.

Aishwarya Jaishankar shares how her 'Why not?' mindset helped her navigate India's demonetization to launch Hyperface, a digital banking initiative.

A live podcast from the Singapore Fintech Festival where startup founders share unfiltered entrepreneurial insights and stories.

A stateless entrepreneur shares his journey of building a company aimed at global financial inclusion.

Leanne Robbers discusses how automatic negative thoughts (ants) sabotage founders' success and how to overcome them.

Prashant Ranganathan, CEO of Zinc Money, shares his entrepreneurial journey and a personal story of loss that shaped his purpose.

Founder of Seven Clean Seas shares his journey of building an organization that removes ocean plastic and created the plastic credits industry.

An interview with Albert Geisler-Fox, CEO of Performative, discussing his entrepreneurial journey and the art of letting go.