Cambrian Fintech with Rex Salisbury
Episodes
$70B Nubank Eyes US Banking (Co-Founder Reveals Strategy)
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My Fintech Newsletter for more interviews and the latest insights:↪︎ https://rexsalisbury.substack.com/In this episode, Nubank co-founder Christin...
How Claude's AI Financial Analyst is Changing Investing (Insider Unveils)
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My Fintech Newsletter for more interviews and the latest insights:↪︎ https://rexsalisbury.substack.com/In this episode, Anthropic’s Nicholas Lin...
Why AI will NEVER Replace Your Sales Job! - Stevie Case CRO @Vanta
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My Fintech Newsletter for more interviews and the latest insights:↪︎ https://rexsalisbury.substack.com/In this episode, I sit down with Stevie Cas...
Figure CEO Reveals: How the World's No. 1 Tokenizer of Real World Assets Leads (Michael Tannenbaum)
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My Fintech Newsletter for more interviews and the latest insights:↪︎ https://rexsalisbury.substack.com/Figure’s CEO Michael Tannenbaum shares ho...
How Ryan Petersen Rebuilt Flexport Into an $8B Powerhouse
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My Fintech Newsletter for more interviews and the latest insights:↪︎ https://rexsalisbury.substack.com/Chaos in the global supply chain and big re...
Why He Turned Down $1.2 Billion from Stripe to Build Airwallex (CEO & Founder Jack Zhang)
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My Fintech Newsletter for more interviews and the latest insights:↪︎ https://rexsalisbury.substack.com/In this episode, Jack, founder of Airwallex...
The Battle Over Tokenized Private Equity (with Expert Lex Sokolin)
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Lex Sokolin, a fintech veteran and founder of Generative Ventures, to unpack the latest in tokenized assets, crypto ...
This Man Stopped $100s of Billions in Fraud (Interview with Johnny Ayers, CEO of Socure)
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Johnny Ayers, founder and CEO of Socure, to uncover why government fraud rates remain stubbornly high compared to th...
Zelle's Secret Roadmap to the Next Trillion (Exclusive Interview - Denise Leonhard)
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Denise Leonhard, CEO of Early Warning (the company behind Zelle), joins us to discuss her journey from American Express and PayPal to...
From Punch Cards to IPO - Bill.com's 20-Year Journey to $1 Billion Revenue
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with René Lacerte, founder and CEO of Bill. René shares his entrepreneurial journey from growing up in a fintech family ...
Near Failure to $15B IPO - Building Marqeta w/ Jason Gardner
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Jason Gardner, founder and CEO of Marqeta. Jason shares his journey from the early days of San Francisco's tech scene...
Zapier’s AI Revolution Hits NOW (Bootstrapped to $1M ARR w/ CEO Wade Foster)
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I sit down with Wade Foster, the founder and CEO of Zapier. We explore Zapier’s unique path, from building its first integrations on...
The $100B Revolution: How LLMs will Change Accounting Forever
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Seema, a partner on the Andreessen Horowitz Fintech Team, to explore how AI is transforming accounting. We uncover wh...
Inside Public's Product Strategy - Deep Dive w/ Leif Abraham
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Leif, Co-founder and Co-CEO at Public, an investing platform built for people who take investing seriously. We discus...
State of Startups: Everything You Need to Know, with Peter Walker of Carta
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I sit down with Peter Walker, head of insights at Carta, to discuss the sweeping changes in how founders are building and funding star...
Fintech’s Biggest Shift Is Happening Now, with Sheel Mohnot of BTV
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Rex chats with Sheel Mohnot from Better Tomorrow Ventures. Sheel shares his journey of living on a dollar a day in India, founding and...
From the Team behind PayPal Ventures: Fintechs NEWEST Fund w/ Founder Jay Ganatra
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we dive into fintech and commerce enablement with Jay Ganatra, one of the founders of Infinity Ventures. Learn how this former PayPal...
How Brigit Built a $100M B2C Fintech (Interview Hamel Kothari)
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, I had an insightful podcast interview with Hamel Kothari, the co-founder and CTO of Brigit.We discussed how they've grown to over $100M in ...
Leveraging Crisis: The AngelList Transformation w/ CEO Avlok Kohli
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Avlok Kohli, CEO of AngelList, at their San Francisco headquarters. Avlok shares how AngelList responded to the 2022 ...
How OpenAI is Completely Transforming Finance Right Now (Exclusive Interview w/ James Dyett)
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with James Dyett, head of platform at OpenAI. James discusses how AI is revolutionizing finance, with insights from client...
Building a Fintech Giant: UPGRADE'S unique Strategy! (with Renaud Laplanche)
19 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of Upgrade. Renaud talks about his move from Lending Club to starting Upgrade, focu...
Keith Rabois' Unique Investment Strategy (Exclusive Interview 2024)
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Rabois is back at Khosla after leaving Founders Fund. In this episode, Keith discusses his return, why he focuses on seed investing, his most co...
Banking as a Service: Dying or Evolving? (Interview w/ Unit's CEO Itai Damti)
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Find out why Itai Damti (the founder and CEO of Unit) hates the word BAAS. We take a deep dive into his mindset and what got him to where he is today.
INSIDER INTERVIEW WITH ZACH PERRET (Founder of PLAID)
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a captivating chat with Zach, Plaid's visionary founder and CEO. Plaid stands at the forefront of fintech innovation, linking financial in...
Legendary $3.5B Startup Journey (Exclusive Interview with NFX's Pete Flint)
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Flint is a prominent figure in the technology and real estate industries, best known for his co-founding role at Trulia and his involvement with ...
Building Propel with Jimmy Chen, Founder & CEO
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jimmy Chen founded Propel in 2014 with the ambitious vision of improving America’s safety net. $65 Billion of government benefits go unclaimed...
Building Simple with Founder Shamir Karkal
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking to fintech pioneer, Shamir Karkal, the Founder and CEO of Simple. Founded in 2009, Simple was one of the very first ne...
Building Mercury with Immad Akhund, Founder & CEO
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Incredibly excited for this conversation with Immad Akhund, the Founder of Mercury, a business bank for startups. Mercury was founded in 20...
Building Chipper with Ham Serunjogi, Founder & CEO and Lead Investor Dan Kimerling
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, originally recorded in Mar 2022, we dive into the backstory of Chipper Cash, at the time, the most valuable startup in Africa recentl...
Building Alloy with Founder, Laura Spiekerman
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Laura Speakman, Co-Founder of Alloy. We cover her journey from interning in microfinance to narrowly avoiding becoming a career law...
Building Deel with Founder, Shuo Wang
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk to Shuo Wang, the founder of Deel. Deel is an all-in-one HR platform for global teams. They help companies of all sizes, anywh...
How to prevent the next bank crisis with John Cochrane
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are going to talk about how you to stop banks crises forever. That’s right, permanently stop bank crises. I know that seems cr...
Building Ramp with Founder & CEO, Eric Glyman
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ramp is one of the fastest businesses ever to go from $0 to $100M in revenue and they did it in less than 3 years and their last raise in 2022 valued ...
Building Column with Plaid Founder, William Hockey
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, William announced he was stepping down for Plaid. For 3 years he and a small team worked in stealth on a new company, Column. Today we’re g...
Building Credit Karma with Ken Lin, Founder & CEO
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Building Credit Karma was not easy. Ken raised the company’s first major round in 2009 during the Great Recession and in 2020 navigated the sale of ...