Disruptive Innovation Podcast (D.I.P.)

About Disruptive Innovation Podcast (D.I.P.)

Nakiso Maodza and Mike Grandinetti discuss what Innovation is and more importantly what Disruptive Innovation is. Using examples from a variety of sources, they talk about who’s doing it right and who’s about to get disrupted!

Publisher

Nakiso Maodza & Mike Grandinetti

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Aug 2019

Latest episode

22 Mar 2020

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Mar 2020

   Episode 23: MIT Solve Interview On The Gaps Between Ingenuity & Opportunity Worldwide

   Mike had the great privilege of interviewing Hala Hanna  for the latest episode of the Disruptive Innovation podcast series. A graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, who previously worked for the World Economic Forum in Geneva, she's currently the Managing Director of Community at Solve - MIT. Between these two roles, she served as co-founder of Huloul, a social impact startup based in Lebanon, where she was born and raised during the devastating 15 year civil war. The social venture was launched to fill the void of accurate journalism during the early days of the Arab Spring. Solve at MIT is doing a brilliant job harnessing the collective sense of purpose, good will, energy & skills of impact #entrepreneurs & social #innovators from around the world to address our planet's most critical & challenging problems. Given the unprecedented times that we currently find ourselves in, I believe that this powerful Massachusetts Institute of Technology initiative will inspire our many listeners to act on behalf of humanity during this challenging time. Solve at MIT is supported by General Motors, Nike, Starbucks, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and many others. To learn more about Solve at MIT after listening to this podcast, and to take action, please note: June 18, 2020 - deadline to apply for the 5 open challenges: https://lnkd.in/eZUjUni including the timely Health Security & Pandemics challenge: https://lnkd.in/eKn7tcZ Learn more about joining Solve as a Member here: https://lnkd.in/eKA4aGb

2. 

   16 Mar 2020

   Episode 22: Why The FinTech Sandbox Is A Critical Piece of The FinTech Startup Playbook, Part 2 of 2

   In this episode, the second of a multi-part miniseries on FinTech, I have an illuminating discussion with two of the leading FinTech thought leaders, practitioners & connectors in the US today. Joining us are David Jegen, Managing Partner of F-Prime Capital and Sarah Biller, Managing Partner of VantageVentures. David is an active early stage investor in Fintech. Sarah, formerly Chief Innovation Officer at State Street, is a serial FinTech entrepreneur. Both David and Sarah are also co-founders and board members of the FinTech Sandbox. The FinTech Sandbox is a Boston-based nonprofit that is the place for all things data. They started the group after recognizing that the high cost and/or inaccessibility of data posed a consistent challenge to FinTech startups. Backed by some of the world’s leading financial institutions, data providers and venture capitalists, the Sandbox is united in its goal to help FinTech entrepreneurs build great products. Sponsors include Fidelity Investments, Franklin Templeton, State Street, Ernst and Young, AWS & F-Prime. Accelerator partners include Techstars, 500 Startups, IDEO Co-Lab, MassChallenge startupbootcamp, and the Fintech Innovation Lab. The Fintech Sandbox offers financial data feeds and APIs for development purposes. They provide a robust set of market, banking, investment and corporate fundamentals data.   The Sandbox has assembled an impressive array of data partners. These include Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Experian, FACTSET, Moody’s, Morningstar, S&P and Transunion.  Their Data Partners have accelerated approval for FinTech Sandbox program participants, allowing for a fast and streamlined licensing process. As a result, the Sandbox has grown from an idea to a robust & engaged community of 4500+ FinTech professionals under their leadership. Venture Capitalists continue to invest heavily in FinTech startups. Cumulatively, they invested $24B USD in the first three quarters of 2019. Globally, there were 60 FinTech funding rounds above $100M. The FinTech Revolution is already having a huge impact on our daily personal and professional lives. The FinTech Sandbox is here to help the next wave of startups succeed.

3. 

   6 Mar 2020

   Episode 21: We Ask Some FinTech Thought Leaders, What’s Happening in FinTech Today? - Part 1 of 2

   In this episode, the first of a multi-part miniseries on FinTech, I have an illuminating discussion with two of the leading FinTech thought leaders, practitioners & connectors in the US today. Joining us are David Jegen, Managing Partner of F-Prime Capital and Sarah Biller, Managing Partner of VantageVentures. David is an active early stage investor in Fintech. Sarah, formerly Chief Innovation officer at State Street, is a serial FinTech entrepreneur. Both David and Sarah are also co-founders and board members of the FinTech Sandbox. The Sandbox grew from an idea to a robust & engaged community of 4500+ FinTech professionals under their leadership. Venture Capitalists continue to invest heavily in FinTech startups. Cumulatively, they invested $24B USD in the first three quarters of 2019. Globally, there were 60 FinTech funding rounds above $100M. As David and Sarah are quick to point out, they take a far more expansive view of how FinTech is defined and believe the numbers grossly underestimate how big this market really is. Listen to the podcast to get their fascinating perspective. Working with more a traditional definition of Fintech, Revolut, the rapidly growing British financial payments upstarts, announced 24 February, raised $500M at a $5.5B USD valuation. They provide app -based currency accounts, currency exchange services and money transfers and have ambitions to build a global bank. Over the past year, they’ve doubled their number of customers to 10M. They will soon launch in the US. In China, AntFinancial has achieved 50% of the  market valuation of Citgroup in just 5 short years. Apps like WeChat and Alipay have totally disrupted Chinese mobile commerce, making the country  an almost entirely cash free society. The FinTech Revolution is already having a huge impact on our daily personal and professional lives in the US. Some examples: Apps like Venmo, Square’s Cash App, Zelle, and Transferwise are enabling far easier cash transfers with no fees. Affirm, led by Paypal Co-Founder Max Levchin, provides millions of shoppers alternatives to credit cards at the point of sale, enabling simple monthly payments. Trading apps like Robinhood are being used by countless millennials to trade stocks in ways not previously imaginable. The Brex card has transformed startups financial, expense  & credit management. Not to be left out, major financial service industry players are very much in the game, Plaid offers the ability to consolidate banking data, making it far easier for Fintech and Banking Industry application developers to delivers a digitally enabled financial system. Plaid was recently acquired by Visa for $5.3B Marcus, from Goldman Sachs, offers fixed rate no fee personal loans Next week- we’ll do a deep dive on the FinTech Sandbox.

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