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How Fintech Founders Win
- Narrator
- Christopher Ashman
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 12 November 2026
- Run Time
- 6 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
Eight startups. Six continents. One framework for turning innovation into impact.
Critics Review
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Financial innovation and entrepreneurship are vitally important in today’s economy yet receive surprisingly little attention. How Fintech Founders Win – drawing on rich case studies and helpful frameworks – explores the distinct dynamics of new financial-oriented ventures. It fills a real gap in our knowledge and will be helpful to aspiring and current entrepreneurs, investors, and all those interested in this important sector.
Jacob H. Schiff Professor, Harvard Business School
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The sharpest strategic thinking comes from deep, comparative cases, and that's exactly what Christensen and Dushnitsky deliver. Across eight startups and six continents, they identify the simple, powerful patterns that shape category-defining fintech companies. A testament to the intelligence and humanity of entrepreneurs in an industry that matters to everyone, everywhere.
SW Ascherman Professor at Stanford University and co-author of Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World
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A rare and genuinely global look at how the best fintech founders build category-defining companies. Christensen and Dushnitsky capture what most books on innovation miss: the strategic patterns that repeat across continents, not just Silicon Valley. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand where finance is going.
Chairman Emeritus of Morgan Stanley, Chairman of the Walt Disney Company
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Technology may start a fintech company, but trust and brand are what make it endure. This book tells the stories behind founders who combined innovation, distribution, and conviction to change how the world moves money.
Founder & Managing Partner, Ribbit Capital
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Details
- Author
- Paul Christensen and Gary Dushnitsky
- Narrator
- Christopher Ashman
- Duration
- 6 hours
- Release Date
- 12 November 2026
- ISBN
- 9781399434300
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Business strategy, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups
Synopsis
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.Eight startups. Six continents. One framework for turning innovation into impact.
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