If you're scaling your fintech leadership team, start at tieronepeople.com

Chris Brycki founded Stockspot in 2013 with no income, no office and no VC, and built it into Australia's largest automated investment service with $1.5 billion under management. In this episode, Chris and Dexter discuss what it actually takes to build an enduring fintech in Australia: staying lean, rejecting growth-at-all-costs capital, and never losing sight of the customer.

About Chris Brycki

Chris Brycki is the founder and CEO of Stockspot, Australia's first and largest automated investment service. He left a career on the institutional side of finance in 2013 to build a lower-cost, evidence-based alternative to traditional financial advice, and has since made money for 99.3% of clients who have invested with Stockspot for at least a year.

What We Discuss

• How Chris validated Stockspot's concept with friends before writing a single line of code
• Why he walked away from institutional finance to start a business with no income
• The Fat Cat Funds Report: how naming and shaming underperforming super funds drove real industry change
• Why paid marketing fails when you're competing against CBA's use-it-or-lose-it budget
• How Stockspot has made money for 99.3% of clients invested for at least a year
• Why Chris rejected VC and how that decision shaped everything that followed
• The discipline required to avoid meme stock temptation during the 2021 trading frenzy
• What nearly $500 million in client profits means in terms of real lives changed
• Why the next generation of fintech will be built with smaller teams and less capital raised

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Background of StockSpot
05:14 The Journey of Entrepreneurship
12:16 Growth Strategies and Media Influence
16:19 Regulatory Challenges in FinTech
20:03 Staying True to Core Values
25:57 The Future of FinTech and AI
30:11 The Evolution of Founders and Startups
35:07 Impact of FinTech on Society
39:10 Maintaining Innovation and Customer Focus

Links and resources

• Chris Brycki on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brycki/
• Stockspot: stockspot.com.au
• Fat Cat Funds Report: https://www.stockspot.com.au/fatcat/
• Fintech Chatter: fintechchatter.com
• Tier One People: https://tieronepeople.com/

This show is brought to you by Tier One People, where we work with founders like Chris to find the 1% who redefine what's possible. If you're scaling your leadership team, start at tieronepeople.com.

Send us Fan Mail

Contact: [email protected]

Connect on with Dexter Cousins on Linkedin

Hire Exceptional Fintech Talent

Subscribe on LinkedIn