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How Fintech Founders Win

Eight Startups, Six Continents, One Framework

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How Fintech Founders Win

Eight Startups, Six Continents, One Framework

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The next era of finance is being built by founders. How Fintech Founders Win tells the story of eight category-defining fintech startups across six continents, and the founders who changed how money moves, is saved, borrowed, invested and managed.

Money shapes almost every part of modern life: how people are paid, how businesses grow, how savings become security, and how bold ideas become global businesses. In every generation, the way money works is remade by entrepreneurs who see old systems differently.

With a foreword by pioneering fintech investor Steve McLaughlin, and drawing on original interviews and primary research with eight founders, Paul Christensen and Gary Dushnitsky go inside the companies that reshaped payments, banking, data, identity and wealth: Airwallex, Alloy, Flutterwave, IHS Markit, Nubank, PensionBee, PhonePe and Revolut.

The book reveals the strategic patterns behind their success: how great fintech founders build trust, find distribution, navigate regulation, raise capital and scale through uncertainty. At its centre is the GRID (Growth through Innovation and Distribution), a new framework that the authors developed for understanding how innovation becomes impact; it explains why innovation is only the starting point, and provides you with a set of insights that any builder, investor or leader can apply.

Part biography, part playbook, How Fintech Founders Win is essential reading for entrepreneurs, investors, financial services leaders and anyone fascinated by how human ingenuity turns bold ideas into world-changing companies.

Eight startups. Six continents. One framework for turning innovation into impact.

Table of Contents

Part One: The Landscape
1. Innovation to Impact
2. The Fintech Revolution
3. Mapping the Fintech Landscape
4. The Growth Through Innovation and Distribution Framework

Part Two: The Builders
5. IHS Markit: Building Information Infrastructure
6. Alloy: Identity as Orchestration
7. PensionBee: Retirement Confidence at Scale
8. PhonePe: Building for a Billion
9. Revolut: Velocity as Strategy
10. Airwallex: Banking for Global Businesses
11. Flutterwave: Africa's Payment Highway
12. Nubank: Love as Distribution

Part Three: The Lessons

13. Lessons from the Builders
14. A Roadmap for the Future

Product details

Published Nov 12 2026
Format Audiobook
Duration 6 hours and 0 minutes
ISBN 9781399434300
Imprint Bloomsbury Business
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Paul Christensen

Paul Christensen is a 25-year fintech veteran, ent…

Author

Gary Dushnitsky

Gary Dushnitsky is Professor for Strategy and Entr…

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