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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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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…