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Jean-Denis Greze, Plaid CTO – At the Cutting Edge of Privacy and Security, Powerful Network Effects, How LLMs Will Reshape Our Digital Experience

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza sits down with Jean-Denis Greze, CTO at Plaid, a data network and one of the foundational fintech companies that works with thousands of firms, including several Fortune 500s and some of largest banks in the world. Founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey, Pl…

Zach Perret: The Survival Story of a Fintech Giant

Long before Plaid became a $13.4 billion fintech juggernaut, it was just another struggling startup. Co-founders Zach Perret and William Hockey burned through cash and pivoted from one failed idea to the next, ultimately getting turned away by roughly 100 VCs during seed round funding. But Plaid pe…

🎧Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo Live at Newcomer's Breaking The Bank Summit: Turning Compliance Into a Competitive Advantage and Learnings From $0 to $100M ARR

In today's episode, Ryan Zauk is joined by Christina Cacioppo, Co-Founder & CEO of Vanta. Ryan and Christina recorded this episode live at Newcomer's Breaking the Bank Summit in San Francisco. The Summit was an invite-only, one-day summit for fintech founders, builders, and investors to explore the…

Plaid: The Invisible Powerhouse Revolutionizing How We Move Money

Plaid, the invisible force behind countless financial apps like Venmo, Cash App, and Robinhood, has quietly revolutionized how we manage money. Founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey as a solution to their own fintech struggles, Plaid became the universal translator connecting over 12,00…

Inside the First BizOps Seat at Column (with Charlie Liao)

What does it look like to be the first BizOps hire at a company rebuilding banking from the ground up? In this episode, I chat with Charlie Liao, who joined Column - founded by William Hockey, one of Plaid's co-founders - when the team was around 70 people. We talk about what drew him from fintec…

William Hockey, Founder/President of Plaid – Enabling Innovation in Transaction Data Transmission for Financial Services

Whether you're a small developer or a large Fortune 500 company, getting consumers to interact with your app or engage in transactions is the key to your success. Plaid helps to connect 3rd party applications to user's bank accounts, in order to streamline transactions made through those applicatio…

Nvidia's $68 Billion Quarter, the $109 Million AI Lobbying War, and the Fintech Infrastructure Company You've Never Heard Of

Four Insights — Episode 004 | Show Notes Episode Title: Nvidia's $68 Billion Quarter, the AI Lobbying War, and the Fintech Infrastructure Company You've Never Heard Of Host: Matt Parker — Founder & CEO, ModernTax | 3x Founder Date: February 28, 2026 Runtime: ~15 minutes [0:00] Introduction & Show O…

William Hockey - Building the Operating System for the Dollar and Silicon Valley Heresy - [Invest Like the Best, EP.463]

William Hockey is the co-founder of Plaid and the founder and CEO of Column, a software company that owns a bank and powers Ramp, Wise, Bilt, Mercury, and others. He funded Column by borrowing against his Plaid shares and has never raised outside capital.  William talks about what owning 100% of h…

Why Plaid’s COO cold-calls new hires | Eric Sager (COO of Plaid)

In the latest episode of Executive Function, Brett sits down with Eric Sager, COO of Plaid, following stints as CRO of Bluevine and Head of Sales at Square. During his seven-year tenure at Plaid, Eric has helped lead the business through a pandemic, Visa's collapsed acquisition, a fintech downturn,…