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The Founders Peak Podcast

Where exceptional startup founders share untold stories that shaped who they are

An exclusive podcast where we bring exceptional startup founders from around the world who each share their inspiration and a bag full of usable entrepreneurial insights from their journeys. So, if you are an aspiring founder, or busy fund-raising, or nearing a successful exit, or even feeling like you might go down fighting, there"s something useful in here for you. Most talks are hosted and recorded LIVE with audiences at The Founders Peak Stage at the Global Finance & Technology Network"s

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00:13:31

Banking on trust – how the ubiquitous postman became...

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2023/03/08

With over three decades of diversified global experience in the financial services, Suresh Sethi is a practitioner in the space of financial inclusion. He has worked extensively towards shaping the digital and mobile payments space in India by leveraging fintech and digital-led innovations. As the founder CEO & MD of India Post Payments Bank, he established the largest inter-operable banking infrastructure by reimagining the role of the ubiquitous Postman to become a catalyst for financial

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00:11:35

How to Balance Chance and Choice for Fulfilling...

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2023/03/08

Victor Alexiev is a seasoned venture builder, tech entrepreneur, and corporate innovation leader with over 20 years of experience in managing product teams, digital innovation, and business building initiatives spanning across multiple industries and continents. During his career he has brought over 20 products from idea to commercialization, working closely with multi-cultural and cross-functional teams. A trained expert in Decision Sciences and Agile Product Management, Victor is a sought-after

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00:10:50

About chaotic patterns and the near impossible nature...

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2023/03/08

Konstantin Richter is the CEO and Founder of Blockdaemon, the leading institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure building a full suite of staking, node, API and custodial products connecting institutions and developers to leading networks. His curiosity about new digital monetization and payment processes led him to a stint at Nokia before he became an entrepreneur successfully building out SaaS/marketplace platforms (Audiotube, Lookbooks, Wiredrive), with his last successful exit in 2017. He has

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00:11:44

Can entrepreneurs undo the unintended disconnect with...

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2023/03/08

FinTech Entrepreneur, Investor and Product Builder with 25 years in leadership roles in Technology, Banking & Investment Management Industry across Asia and the UK. Founder of Bento, SaaS Wealth Tech (acquired by Grab). In this talk, Chandrima Das shares a part that founders often draw a veil over - the detrimental impact of their single-mindedness towards their venture on their families, friends and particularly on their children. Now, Chandrima is working hard on her personal reclamation

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00:11:12

Do age and experience really matter when setting up...

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2023/03/08

Florian Dumas is a seasoned finance professional with a 25-year career in finance spanning across Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong. He has directly managed U-Reg since the company was incorporated. In his previous roles as regional head of sales Florian managed teams across Asia and has led large infrastructure projects as either a sponsor or as a senior stakeholder. He is an expert in regulatory processes. In this talk, Florian shares how he came to change his perception of age and experience when

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00:08:15

The superpower of not knowing the answers

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2023/03/08

Gavin Tan is the CEO and co-founder of Brick, the leading Open Finance API provider in Southeast Asia. Gavin likes to think of himself as a modern data and payments plumber. He is a fintech enthusiast deeply involved in fintech products, operations and regulatory strategy. A lawyer by training, Gavin helped scale high growth fintechs across SEA, including Aspire (YC W18) - the 1st SME Neobank for SEA. In this talk, Gavin shares that facing big things with zero clue may sometimes leave us tense, but

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00:13:01

The accidental Founder - overcoming my imposter syndrome

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2023/03/08

Katrina Cokeng is the CEO & Co-Founder of Xen Capital, a B2B2C alternative investment platform offering wealth advisors and asset managers an easier way to access capital at scale. Previously, Katrina co-founded and scaled Oriente, a leading digital finance platform in Southeast Asia. She brings over 20 years of global experience in strategy, investment banking and private equity from McKinsey & Co, Merrill Lynch and Pomona Capital. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. In this

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00:11:55

Slowdown for Success. You are running a marathon.

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2023/03/08

Mohit Chobey is a man of many talents. From being a Corporate Business leader & Banker for more than 2 decades,to being an Entrepreneur marrying off his Love for endurance sports & fitness with an E Commerce Health & Wellness company. Post an unsuccessful culmination, he pivoted to Ed-tech & turned around the fortunes of an ailing K 12 company. He is a 3 times Full Ironman finisher, besides a Ted X speaker and turned author during COVID times, coming out with 2 best selling books,

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00:11:00

Finding the extra in the ordinary can be game changing

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2023/03/08

Vipul Sekhsaria has a taste for filter coffee, a wildlife junkie, ask him to sing a song next time you meet him, and he will not hesitate. Co-founder at Kaleidofin and an in-house customer network specialist. For the day job, Vipul is responsible for customer discovery, acquisition and distribution design spread across India covering 12 million platform users and 1.7 million + customers across Kaleidofin products – Ki cash, Ki credit and Ki score. In other times, the go-to man for solving problems

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00:08:59

In the Front Seat of the Web3 Roller Coaster

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2023/03/08

Wei Shi Khai is the General Partner and Chief Operations Officer at LongHash Ventures. In 2021, Shi Khai was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30. He was previously a management consultant at McKinsey, with a focus on digital transformation and analytics across the financial and telecommunications sector in Southeast Asia. Shi Khai holds a Bachelor of Science from Imperial College London. In this talk, Shi Khai talks about Web3 and the incredible potential it holds for us to create a future of freedom and

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00:22:13

Make Singapore your smart move

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2023/03/02

Ms Jacqueline Poh was appointed Managing Director of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) on 4 October 2021. She was previously Deputy Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office Strategy Group, which leads and organises the Public Service to develop and implement the strategic priorities of the Government. She also oversaw the National Population and Talent Division and the Centre for Strategic Futures. Ms Poh was the founding Chief Executive of the Government Technology Agency of Singapore

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00:12:44

Co-Founder conflicts are real & what is the secret...

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2023/02/27

Being a disruptive digital explorer, Viktor Atanasov is the CEO and co-founder of WOGI, the fastest-growing incentive payments provider across South East Asia. Viktor is also a co-founder of a Frankfurt-listed, Allterco, an award-winning company specialising in IoT smart home automation devices. In this talk, Viktor digs deep into why co-founder conflicts happen in the first place, and how founders, no matter how different from each other, have the same things in common.

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00:11:15

How to become a problem solver...with or without...

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2023/02/27

Sonam Wangchuk is an Indian engineer, innovator and education reformist. He is the founding-director of the Students' Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL), which was founded in 1988 by a group of students who had been in his own words, the 'victims' of an alien education system foisted on Ladakh. He is also known for designing the SECMOL campus that runs on solar energy and uses no fossil fuels for cooking, lighting or heating. In this talk, Sonam talks about the merits

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00:11:18

A founder's dilemma - choosing between a finger, toe...

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2023/02/27

Recognised as a NFT OG and a pioneer in the fields of Blockchain, Crypto Currencies and Augmented Reality. Morten Rongaard is a regular speaker around the world on those topics and board member of the Nordic Blockchain Association and holds several advisor positions. Morten has the rare skill of being able to combine creative thinking with financial acumen and the key driver behind Reality + hugely successful sustainability platform. This Danish Viking is known for sharing his knowledge and

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00:10:34

Get rich or die trying - the journey from profit at...

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2023/02/27

Ladi Delano is a British-born Nigerian entrepreneur and the co-Founder and co-CEO of Moove, a global mobility fintech democratising access to vehicle financing for mobility entrepreneurs. He has previously founded and exited several businesses in Africa and Asia, and holds a Master’s degree from Oxford University and an MPA from the London School of Economics. In this talk, Ladi shares his lessons from his extraordinary entrepreneurial journey, and how he realised the importance of building a

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00:13:11

Swarat to Samrat: Master yourself to master the world

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2023/02/27

Life is a precious opportunity for unlimited progress through unending education” – this is the philosophy of Gitanjali Jain, a multi-hyphenate, who believes in constantly reinventing herself through lifelong learning. A social entrepreneur turned educator, Gitanjali is currently heading the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh (HIAL) as its Founding CEO. HIAL is an alternative Institute for mountain development that believes in a curriculum that is contextual, pedagogy that is experiential,

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00:13:13

The Tom Yum Kung Recipe for Entrepreneurship

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2023/02/27

Mr. Aswin Phlaphongphanich is the Co-founder and CEO of DeeMoney - Thailand’s leading and fastest-growing fintech specializing in cross-border payments. Born in Thailand, in a Sikh family, Aswin is the epitome of a self-made person, who started his first business from the basement garage, in his apartment, at the age of 21. Coming from a prominent real-estate and hotelier family that saw its fortune collapse during the 1997 Tom Yum Kung crisis, during his formative years, Aswin’s goal was to ensure

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00:12:30

Even failure has a peak – it’s the beginning of success

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2023/02/27

A tech visionary and a serial entrepreneur, Anish Achuthan is the Co-founder and CEO of the world’s fastest-growing digital banking enterprise, Open Financial Technologies. With over 17+ years of experience in the fintech industry, Anish launched OPEN - Asia’s first SME neobanking platform to solve the business banking challenges faced by startups, small businesses and freelancers. Then, he set up Zwitch, an embedded finance platform with no-code and low-code capabilities that allows both fintechs

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00:10:41

Mid Life Crisis and the Call to adventure

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2023/02/27

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs. He leads the company's growth and expansion in Asia and beyond. He has over two decades of experience in the fintech space, having run his own startup and built large organisations. Prior to Pine Labs, Amrish co-founded Citrus Pay which was acquired by Naspers FinTech, PayU in 2016. Post the acquisition, he was made the CEO for PayU India and later took over as head of Investments for Naspers where he was responsible for increasing the company's footprint in the

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00:13:54

8 Simple Rules: Between purpose and prayer, the 6...

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2023/02/27

Amit Gupta is an entrepreneur now on his third successful venture – with a rewarding corporate career with leadership roles squeezed in as well! Amit believes in the power of democratisation and his two most recent ventures are Ecosystm - a next generation Technology Research & Advisory company, and Kampd – a platform for professional communities and content. He’s a firm believer in giving back, and is the Chair of TiE Singapore, and is also among the current Global Board of Trustees of TiE –

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