Bank On It

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Brandon Krieg, co-founder and CEO at Stash.  Stash, is a well known investment platform that's simplified, for everyone.  Before Stash, Brandon was a co-founder & partner of EdgeTrade, which was acquired by Knight Capital in 2008.  Brandon's origin story is filled with hard work, ups, downs, focus and determination. Building Stash was in no way easy, but with over 3,000,000 accounts today, it was worth every drop of sweat that went into building it.  Hear the whole story here.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Brian Geary from ODX (created by Ondeck).   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium  

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Chris Hurn, Founder and CEO at Fountainhead Commercial Capital.  Fountainhead, specializes in SBA 504 loans for small businesses.  This is not Chris's first company, during the interview Chris shares his experience on rebuilding his business from scratch and raising venture funding of $23,000,000 to date.     Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Brandon Krieg from Stash. About the host: John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech.You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Gil Beyda, Managing Director at Comcast Ventures & Genacast Ventures.   Gil is a seasoned entrepreneur turned VC. Genacast investments are towards companies in the Blockchain space. Genacast was created by Gil in partnership with Comcast. Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio  to hear Next Tuesday's episode with Chris Hurn from Fountainhead Commercial Capital. About the host: John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Michael Ou, CEO, CoolbitX and chairman, SmartDisplayer Tech. CoolbitX has received $13 million in funding to date from investors such as SBI Group, SBI Group began in 1999 as SoftBank Investment, a division of Softbank. Softbank founder Masayoshi Son considered to be one of the top investors in the world, invested early in companies such as AliBaba and Flipkart.  CoolBitX has a mobile hardware wallet for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, XRP, Bitcoin Cash, and ERC20 Tokens. AML and KYC is baked into the product by providing crypto exchanges with physical wallet to mail to customers.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Gil Beyda from Genacast Ventures.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Joe Maxwell, Managing Partner, FINTOP Capital. FINTOP comprises financial tech entrepreneurs and founders who invest in well-managed fintechs.  During Joe's time as an operator, he's had three successful company exits and now helps entrepreneurs similarly succeed.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Michael Ou from CoolBitX.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Jeff Martin and Lee Farabaugh, co- founders of Core10. Core10 is a Full-service Fintech Software Solutions company with 100% U.S. located talent.  While many companies outsource IT work overseas, Core10 doesn't. Their talent pool comes from Nashville, Huntington and West Virginia.     Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Joe Maxwell from FINTOP Capital.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Carl Ryden, CEO and co-founder, PrecisionLender. PrecisionLender, is a technology company providing commercial lenders with data tools and analytics.  Culture and solving a major pain point for commercial lenders is what makes the company a profitable one.   Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Lee Farabaugh and Jeff Martin from Core10.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Jennifer Fitzgerald, CEO and co-founder, Policygenius. Policygenius, is an insurtech located in NYC that has raised about $51 million to date. Before Policygenius, Jennifer was at McKinsey & Company.  It was a tough road to go from McKinsey & Company to building Policygenius. Investor's weren't easily buying-in during their seed ~ series A. Today, they're well funded and profitable, but, it wasn't always that way.    Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Carl Ryden from PrecisionLender.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Kendrick Nguyen, CEO and co-founder, Republic. Republic is an investment platform where everyone can invest as little as $10 in startups and ICOs.  Kendrick, was general counsel at Angelist, as we know caters investments to super high net worth individuals.  But ever since the Jobs Act, which lowered the dollar amounts and the qualification of an investor, created opportunity for business model of republic.   Their second year enjoyed 10x growth.  Where at least 50% of funding goes to woman founders.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday's episode with Jennifer Fitzgerald from Policygenius.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Farhan Ahmad, CEO and Founder, Bento for Business.  Bento is a modern business banking platform providing simple and elegant financial solutions for SMBs, combining prepaid card and online software to control employee expenses.   Tune in and Listen.   Subscribe now on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursday's episode with Kendrick Nguyen from Republic.   About the host:   John is the host of the twice-weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite at offices of Carpenter Group, a creative services agency focused on the financial services industry. He's a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium