Conversations about payments, fintech and running on AI.

Episodes, talks and guest lectures. More than 2,200 students have sat through the AI lectures so far, and 80 of them became interns.

Episodes

The episode list is being brought over. In the meantime, the conversations are on LinkedIn.

Speaking topics

Launching payments inside a bank
What it took to build an embedded payments business inside a top-20 bank from nothing to $10M in nine months, and why most bank payments programs stall before that.
PayFac-as-a-Service
What the category is, who it's for, what sponsor banks need to see, and lessons from building the first one.
Running a company on AI agents
The Iron Pipeline: enforced gates, failing tests first, model independence, and agent memory. What changed when lead time went from 90 days to five.
Product leadership in regulated businesses
Build, buy or partner decisions, ROI gates before funding, and how to keep a 100-person product and engineering organization shipping multiple times a day.

Guest lectures

  • University of Georgia. Guest lectures on AI and agentic AI; MIS advisory board member.
  • Malla Reddy University, Hyderabad. Guest lectures on AI and agentic AI; internship partner.

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