How Fintech Founders Win
Eight Startups, Six Continents, One Framework
How Fintech Founders Win
Eight Startups, Six Continents, One Framework
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Description
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.
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Table of Contents
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 | 12 Nov 2026 |
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| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781399434287 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Business |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
























