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.

Drawing on original interviews and primary research, 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.

Paul Christensen is a 25-year fintech veteran, entrepreneur and formal Global Co-Head of Fintech at Goldman Sachs. 

Gary Dushnitsky is Professor for Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Deputy Dean and London Business School, and Senior Fellow at Wharton’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management.

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