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Zach Perret

Plaid co-founder and CEO

Every podcast episode featuring Zach Perret that Attunex has found: 36 interviews and appearances across 28 shows between 2018 and 2026. Most often on a16z Live (3), TBPN (2) and The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch (2). Follow Zach in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. Arm Pumps CPUs, Social Media Addiction, Data Center Ban | Eric Goldman, Nima Jalali, Jon McNeill, Karri Saarinen, Dimi Kellari, Mikey Shulman, Aida Baradari, Zack Kanter, Nik Milanović, Zach Perret
    TBPN

    Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (02:36) - Arm's $15B Chip Bet (14:38) - Sanders & AOC: Pause Data Centers (27:54) - Meta & YouTube Lose Addiction Trial (37:08) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions…

    2026-03-26
  2. The Rise, Fall & Reset of The Fintech Industry
    The a16z Show

    Fintech went from a full-blown surge to a near standstill in just two years. At its peak, about 25 percent of all venture dollars were pouring into the category. By late 2022, that number had…

    2025-12-19
  3. Fintech’s Seasons: From Boom to Winter to AI-Driven Spring — a16z Podcast
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    Fintech has cycled from late-spring growth to a brutal winter and now a cautious, AI-fueled spring. (Original 45 min → Condensed 3 min.) In this short version of the a16z Podcast, hosts and guests…

    2025-12-19
  4. OpenAI to Support Adult Content, CoreWeave’s AI Ranch, Apple's M5 Vision Pro | Zachary Perret, Panos Panay, Eric Wittman, Brian Baumgartner, Adam Ryan, Adit Abraham, Dan Shipper & More
    TBPN

    (02:09) - OpenAI Goes Explicit (24:01) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (26:01) - Apple Unveils M5 Apple Vision Pro (29:17) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (39:22) - Erebor Bank Gets U.S. Greenlight (42:57) - 𝕏…

    2025-10-15
  5. From Infrastructure to Analytics: The Plaid Playbook
    PYMNTS Podcast

    Plaid’s next five years probably won’t look much like the last five, CEO Zach Perret tells Karen Webster. Data and the insights it offers the broader payments and financial services ecosystem…

    2025-08-26
  6. How Plaid Turned a Failed $5.3B Deal with Visa into Momentum | Zach Perret (Plaid)
    Grit

    Zach Perret saw a fintech explosion coming—and built the rails before it arrived. On this week’s Grit, the Plaid co-founder and CEO retraces his path from building tools for developers to linking the…

    2025-07-14
  7. Plaid: The Invisible Powerhouse Revolutionizing How We Move Money
    200: Tech Tales FoundMentioned

    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…

    2025-06-29
  8. Undoing a $5 Billion Acquisition and Building a Durable Standalone Plaid (with Plaid CEO Zach Perret)
    ACQ2 by Acquired

    We sit down with Zach Perret, CEO of Plaid, to discuss the remarkable journey of Plaid and the broader fintech landscape over the past several years. Zach takes us blow-by-blow through journey of…

    2025-05-27
  9. E86: Inside Mischief VC's Evolution with Zach Perret and Lauren Farleigh
    "Turpentine VC" | Venture Capital and Investing

    In this episode of Turpentine VC, Erik Torenberg interviews Lauren Farleigh and Zach Perret from Mischief VC, discussing their experiences as founders and how they leveraged those to build their…

    2025-04-22
  10. Zach Perret: The Survival Story of a Fintech Giant
    Pattern Breakers

    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…

    2025-02-25
  11. Behind the Growth of Plaid with Zach Perret
    HD in HD

    Beginning in a small town in North Carolina, Zach Perret would eventually go on to form one of the most consequential fintech companies in all of Silicon Valley. Now, the Co-Founder and CEO of Plaid…

    2024-12-03
  12. 20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Zach Perret is the CEO and Co-Founder of Plaid, a technology platform reshaping financial services. To date, Zach has raised over $734M for Plaid from the likes of NEA, Spark, GV, Coatue and a16z, to…

    2024-10-16
  13. Plaid CEO Zach Perret: Plaid’s Next Chapter in the AI Era, ‘Fintech Spring,’ and Mastering Fintech Hiring
    This Week in Fintech

    Welcome to the inaugural episode of This Month in Fintech, a new flagship podcast from the folks at This Week in Fintech. The show is hosted by Ryan Zauk, who will sit down monthly with some of the…

    2024-09-24
  14. In the Vault: New Applications in Fintech with Plaid’s Zach Perret and Marqeta’s Simon Khalaf
    a16z Live

    In this conversation, which took place at a16z's Connect Fintech event, a16z General Partner Angela Strange, Plaid CEO and cofounder Zach Perret, and Marqeta CEO Simon Khalaf discuss how AI will…

    2024-06-20
  15. 6 More Questions with Zach Perret
    Building One with Tomer Cohen

    We're back this week with Plaid CEO, Zach Perret. He's joining Tomer for a rapid fire round of questions. Follow Zach Perret on LinkedIn. Follow Tomer Cohen on LinkedIn and check out his newsletter…

    2024-05-07
  16. Building Plaid with Zach Perret
    Building One with Tomer Cohen

    Over the years, technology has transformed banking for everyday people. You can now access your money without ever having to touch a dollar bill. But what powers the apps that have so simplified the…

    2024-04-30
  17. INSIDER INTERVIEW WITH ZACH PERRET (Founder of PLAID)
    Cambrian Fintech with Rex Salisbury

    Join us for a captivating chat with Zach, Plaid's visionary founder and CEO. Plaid stands at the forefront of fintech innovation, linking financial institutions with apps to revolutionize banking and…

    2024-03-19
  18. My First 16: Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid's Zach Perret
    a16z Live

    In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Zach Perret, the co-founder and CEO of Plaid, about how Plaid built a community in the early days to acquire customers, how they tracked “free…

    2023-12-05
  19. The future of fintech with Plaid CEO Zach Perret | E1818
    This Week in Startups

    This Week in Startups is brought to you by… Vanta. Compliance and security shouldn't be a deal-breaker for startups to win new business. Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a SOC 2 report fast.…

    2023-09-28
  20. Zach Perret, CEO at Plaid
    Fintech Family Hour

    Fintech Fam! It is time to bring you an interview that I have wanted to do for probably the last 4-5 years. It's a Zach Attack! My guest on this episode is Zach Perret, CEO of Plaid. After solving…

    2023-08-04
  21. Meta Soars on Earnings, Plaid CEO Talks FinTech & Tesla Owners Sour on Musk
    Bloomberg Tech

    Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow break down Meta's earnings with CFO Susan Li, and sit down for an interview with the CEO of Plaid to discuss the state of the FinTech industry. Plus, a…

    2023-07-27
  22. Inside Plaid and Open Finance with CEO Zach Perret
    Fintech Layer Cake

    Reggie Young and Matt Janiga interview Zach Perret, co-founder and CEO of Plaid. They talk about all things Plaid: how it evolved into being a forefront in open finance, and how it’ll continue to…

    2023-04-13
  23. TechCheck+ Plaid CEO Zach Perret on his 2023 fintech predictions 1/24/23
    TechCheck

    CNBC's Deirdre Bosa and Kate Rooney sit down with Plaid co-founder and CEO Zach Perret from CNBC's San Francisco bureau. Zach shares his biggest fintech predictions for the year ahead. Hosted by…

    2023-01-24
  24. Microsoft Reports Earnings After the Bell, Amazon Unveils New Prescription Drug Perk & Plaid CEO Zach Perret on Fintech Outlook 01/24/23
    TechCheck

    Our anchors begin today’s show previewing Microsoft’s earnings after the bell with CNBC’s Steve Kovach and New Age Wealth Advisors Co-Founder Todd Gordon. Then, Mizuho Managing Director Dan Dolev…

    2023-01-24
  25. SaaStr 561: Classic Episode: The Plaid Journey with Co-Founder and CEO Zach Perret
    The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors

    To celebrate 10 years of SaaStr, we're revisiting some classic podcast episodes. Up today: Plaid co-founder and CEO, Zach Perret. This interview with CNBC's Ari Levy took place in February 2019,…

    2022-06-03
  26. Choosing Optionality with Zach Perret, CEO and Co-Founder of Plaid
    Who Dares Wins: Life, Leadership, and Finance with Anthony Noto

    Optionality means creating the potential for more choices, but how does that translate in real life? Zach Perret, CEO and Co-Founder of Plaid and a large disruptive player in the financial system,…

    2022-03-02
  27. Finding Your Operating Cadence at Plaid
    Uniquely Led with Jack Altman

    As the son of a symphony conductor, Zach Perret learned the importance of structure and rhythm from an early age. In this episode of Uniquely Led, he shares how this childhood lesson helped him…

    2021-12-13
  28. Greatest Hits: The State and Future of Fintech with Zach Perret and David Haber
    Village Global Podcast

    Erik is joined by Zach Perret (@zachperret), co-founder and CEO of Plaid, and David Haber (@dhaber), former co-founder and CEO of Bond Street, now at Goldman Sachs. Zach and David talk about how they…

    2021-09-13
  29. Good Time Show with Plaid CEO Zach Perret
    a16z Live

    This podcast is an excerpt. Follow the a16z Club to join conversations with tech founders, builders, and leaders live and in-full. In this episode: The abandoned M&A with Visa [3:47]Communicating to…

    2021-06-18
  30. More People Moving Their Financial Lives Online
    Brainstorm

    When was the last time you visited a bank branch? Called a broker to make a stock trade? Paid the babysitter in cash? Increasingly, our financial lives are online. And in today's Brainstorm podcast…

    2021-06-10
  31. Housing is on a Sugar High, But Is it in for a Crash?
    CNBC's "Fast Money"

    U.S. new home prices rose at the fastest pace in 33 years in April as short supply and low mortgage rates fueled the market. But is the trade about to crash? Plus Fintech ruled this year’s CNBC…

    2021-05-25
  32. Zach Perret – The Future of Financial Services – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.13]
    Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

    Zach Perret is the founder and CEO of Plaid. Plaid helps companies build fintech solutions by creating APIs that allow people to connect their financial data to apps and services. In this…

    2020-12-24
  33. The Power of Positivity with Zach Perret
    All Hands

    This podcast is brought to you by Lattice. Learn more about how Lattice can help your business stay people focused at https://lattice.com/

    2020-09-30
  34. SaaStr 258: Plaid CEO and Co-Founder Zach Perret on How to Build a Platform that Fuels an Ecosystem
    The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors

    Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. But how do…

    2019-08-15
  35. 332. Interviews: Money20/20 CEO special
    Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS

    For this weeks episode we had the chance to sit down with the CEOs of some of the most interesting companies from Money20/20 in Amsterdam! We got some really interesting insights, found out secrets…

    2019-06-21
  36. 20VC: Plaid's Zach Perret on Why You Have To Hire For Spikes and What That Really Means, Fintech Predictions From Incumbent Entrants To The Rise of Europe & The 2 Big Questions That CEOs Should Ask Themselves
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Zach Perret is the Founder & CEO @ Plaid, the startup providing the easiest way for users to connect their bank accounts to an app whether it be transactions, identity or authentication. To date,…

    2019-06-07
  37. The State and Future of Fintech with Zach Perret and David Haber
    Village Global Podcast

    Erik is joined by Zach Perret (@zachperret), co-founder and CEO of Plaid, and David Haber (@dhaber), former co-founder and CEO of Bond Street, now at Goldman Sachs. Zach and David talk about how they…

    2019-04-04
  38. Focus on the Founder: Episode 5 - Zach Perret of Plaid
    Focus on the Founder

    In this fifth episode of Focus on the Founder, Zach Perret the Co-founder and CEO of Plaid joins us to discuss his career journey, experience starting Plaid after working at Bain and his thoughts on…

    2018-03-16