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Most fintech startups fail from internal misalignment—not competition. Former fintech product leader Maribeth Martorana reveals the hidden patterns that kill good ideas: strategy drift, misaligned teams, bloated MVPs, and data ignored as an asset.

Discover why fintechs burn capital solving the wrong problems, how AI hype masks alignment issues, and the real difference between agile rituals and agile culture. If your startup moves fast but feels misaligned, this is your diagnosis.

👇 KEY TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction: Bridging Vision and Execution in Fintech
5:39 Coaching Teams Through Messy Growth Phases
10:57 When Founders Over-Control Product Without Losing Strategy
15:01 Building True Agile Teams in Large Organizations
17:25 Learning as the Core of Agile Product Development
21:11 Data Strategy: Monetizing Data as a Product Asset
24:50 The Formula: Data + AI + UX = Value in Fintech
26:50 Governance in AI: Where It Fits in the Value Formula
30:09 The Most Underused Metric in Product Strategy

🎤 ABOUT THE GUEST
Maribeth Martorana is Founder & CEO of Sapient Advisors and Strategic Advisor at Spatial Risk Systems. She has led product strategy at early-stage and scaling fintechs, specializing in aligning vision with execution and building data-driven product cultures.

🔗 Connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maribeth-martorana/

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