Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs through conversation, through which uncovers the amazing stories behind them and their creations.

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In this episode John chats with Aaron Schumm from Vestwell. Aaron shares some amazing stories throughout his entrepreneurial career like stressful times of being totally out of cash, to more positive like talking with over 80 VCs of which only 3 said no to funding his company.  He's been through a lot, yet stayed positive throughout it all. John and Aaron discuss it and laugh a bit. Tune in and learn about the organic progression on why/how Aaron built his recent company, Vestwell.  Vestwell has some amazing VC backers, F-Prime Capital Partners, FinTech Collective, Commerce Ventures and Primary Venture Partners to name a few.

Aaron Schumm LinkedIn - Twitter

Vestwell LinkedIn - Twitter

John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem keeping current with the ever - innovating industry.

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Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs through conversation, through which uncovers the amazing stories behind them and their creations.

You can Subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and iHeartRadio.

In this episode John chats with Aaron Schumm from Vestwell. Aaron shares some amazing stories throughout his entrepreneurial career like stressful times of being totally out of cash, to more positive like talking with over 80 VCs of which only 3 said no to funding his company.  He’s been through a lot, yet stayed positive throughout it all. John and Aaron discuss it and laugh a bit. Tune in and learn about the organic progression on why/how Aaron built his recent company, Vestwell.  Vestwell has some amazing VC backers, F-Prime Capital Partners, FinTech Collective, Commerce Ventures and Primary Venture Partners to name a few.

Aaron Schumm LinkedIn - Twitter

Vestwell LinkedIn - Twitter

John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He’s in the center of the fintech ecosystem keeping current with the ever - innovating industry.

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In this episode the host, John Siracusa interviews Colin Kennedy from Clarity with Marcus by Goldman Sachs.  Colin was the CRO & COO of Clarity during the acquisition from Marcus by Goldman Sachs. They discussed the vision of Clarity and talked a bit about the wild ride Clarity has been through.  It was launched in January 2017 and Acquired April 2018.  Now Clarity enjoys over a million users and they discussed how that happened through their app ecosystem and organic growth. Although the Clarity team didn't develop the company for acquisition they learned quickly that Marcus had a different idea and it ended up becoming a perfect acquisition.

Colin Kennedy, LinkedIn

Goldman Sachs, LinkedIn - Twitter

Marcus, Twitter

Clarity, LinkedIn - Twitter

John is the host of the weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem keeping current with the ever - innovating industry. 

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In this episode the host, John Siracusa interviews Colin Kennedy from Clarity with Marcus by Goldman Sachs.  Colin was the CRO & COO of Clarity during the acquisition from Marcus by Goldman Sachs. They discussed the vision of Clarity and talked a bit about the wild ride Clarity has been through.  It was launched in January 2017 and Acquired April 2018.  Now Clarity enjoys over a million users and they discussed how that happened through their app ecosystem and organic growth. Although the Clarity team didn’t develop the company for acquisition they learned quickly that Marcus had a different idea and it ended up becoming a perfect acquisition.

Colin Kennedy, LinkedIn

Goldman Sachs, LinkedIn - Twitter

Marcus, Twitter

Clarity, LinkedIn - Twitter

John is the host of the weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He’s in the center of the fintech ecosystem keeping current with the ever - innovating industry. 

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In this episode the host, John Siracusa has an in depth conversation with Nathan Richardson Co-Founder & CEO at TradeIt.  Nathan shared some amazing stories about selling his company to Yahoo in 1999 for $101,000,000 to being part of the team which created Yahoo Finance!  He's done humanitarian work in Libya, helping to rebuild the countries education and basic utilities systems. This interview unlocked insights into an amazing individual and entrepreneur.  

Listen in if you like to hear about the person behind the results.

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Nathan Richardson LinkedIn - Twitter

TradeIT on LinkedIn - Twitter

John is the host of the weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem keeping current with the ever - innovating industry. 

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In this episode the host, John Siracusa has an in depth conversation with Nathan Richardson Co-Founder & CEO at TradeIt.  Nathan shared some amazing stories about selling his company to Yahoo in 1999 for $101,000,000 to being part of the team which created Yahoo Finance!  He’s done humanitarian work in Libya, helping to rebuild the countries education and basic utilities systems. This interview unlocked insights into an amazing individual and entrepreneur.  

Listen in if you like to hear about the person behind the results.

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Nathan Richardson LinkedIn - Twitter

TradeIT on LinkedIn - Twitter

John is the host of the weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He’s in the center of the fintech ecosystem keeping current with the ever - innovating industry. 

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Welcome to the first Thursday morning episode!  

In this episode the host, John Siracusa chats with Mike Kane, Co Founder of Hydrogen.  

They talk about why Mike created Hydrogen in the first place and the journey that led him and his brother to go from Hedgeable to organically creating Hydrogen, a service that all companies in the financial web 3.0 need.  Hydrogen is not a huge VC backed firm, yet they are able to take on behemoths like Salesforce. Mike feels that web 3.0 needs to be a very open environment, something that large corporate entities can't do.   The story to why Hydrogen was created rooted from a need they had at an earlier company and with the advent of Blockchain, many companies share the same need. Tune in if you like a great story and how the financial web might be powered.  

John is the host of the weekly "Bank On It" podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem keeping current with the ever - innovating industry.

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Welcome to the first Thursday morning episode!  

In this episode the host, John Siracusa chats with Mike Kane, Co Founder of Hydrogen.  

They talk about why Mike created Hydrogen in the first place and the journey that led him and his brother to go from Hedgeable to organically creating Hydrogen, a service that all companies in the financial web 3.0 need.  Hydrogen is not a huge VC backed firm, yet they are able to take on behemoths like Salesforce. Mike feels that web 3.0 needs to be a very open environment, something that large corporate entities can’t do.   The story to why Hydrogen was created rooted from a need they had at an earlier company and with the advent of Blockchain, many companies share the same need. Tune in if you like a great story and how the financial web might be powered.  

John is the host of the weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He’s in the center of the fintech ecosystem keeping current with the ever - innovating industry.

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The host John Siracusa recorded live onsite at In|Vest 2018 in NYC where he interviewed many of the key speakers at the event when they were off the stage, providing insight into the person behind the presentation.  This is the last of three episodes.

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People interviewed in this episode:

Dann Bibas, Co-Founder, Fountain Money

LinkedIn

Blake Kannady, Product Director - User Experience, Envestnet

LinkedIn

Aaron Spradlin, Founder & CEO, cleverDome

LinkedIn - Twitter

Steve Sanduski, CEO & CoFounder, ROL Advisor

LinkedIn - Twitter

John is the host of the weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He’s in the center of the fintech ecosystem keeping current with the ever - innovating industry.

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The host John Siracusa recorded live onsite at In|Vest 2018 in NYC where he interviewed many of the key speakers at the event when they were off the stage, providing insight into the person behind the presentation.  This is the second of three episodes.

You can Subscribe to this podcast iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and iHeartRadio

People interviewed in this episode:

Eric Poirier, CEO, Addepar

LinkedIn

Anton Honikman, CEO, MyVest

LinkedIn

Gerry Michael, President, Smartleaf

LinkedIn

Kapin Vora, Partner, Capco

LinkedIn - Twitter

John is the host of the weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He’s in the center of the fintech ecosystem keeping current with the ever - innovating industry.

Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or on Medium