Fintech Leaders
Miguel Armaza
3 episodes
How Navan Built a $7Bn Fintech Inside a Travel Company, with President Michael Sindicich
5 Nov · 1 h 6 min
- Navan launched payments in March 2020, and the pandemic zeroed revenue a week later, prompting the board to weigh shutting down before it went on offense.
- Navan's Ava AI agent resolves over 50% of support interactions and lifts gross margins from 50% to the 70s.
Steve Stagner on Building Crete's $500 Million AI Roll-up to Modernize Accounting
24 Jun 2025 · 38 min
- Crete, led by Steve Stagner, acquires US accounting firms and modernizes them with OpenAI-powered tools, backed by Thrive Capital and Bessemer.
- Crete plans to deploy over $500m in two years, and early tests show 30 to 50% time savings on trial balance normalization and 25 to 30% on audit testing.
Kamran Zaki, ICONIQ Growth Partner - From Building a $50Bn Global Payments Giant to Fintech Investor
10 Dec 2024 · 35 min
- Kamran Zaki, former Adyen COO, joins Iconiq Growth as partner, citing its "uncommon care" culture.
- Zaki says global vision requires focused execution, tracing Adyen's expansion from digital payments to unified commerce and embedded products.