Griffin Uncut
Casual conversations with our partners, customers, fintech founders, operators, and builders shaping the future of banking and financial services.
From embedded finance and API-first banking infrastructure to regulatory challenges and growth strategies, we talk to the people building financial products about what works (and what doesn't).
Featured episodes
Matt Ford032: How wealthtech ignores affluent millenials
Matt Ford, founder and CEO of Sidekick Money, joins us to discuss the massive gap in wealth management for affluent millennials earning six figures with £250K-£500K in assets.
David Jarvis031: Griffin's 2026 outlook - cards, stable coins, and agentic finance
In our first episode of 2026, our CEO David Jarvis shares the outlook for the year and reflects on a wild 2025 that saw Griffin 5x revenue and sign tier-1 names like Uber and Marqeta.
Jarvey Moss030: Fixing the payments problem in the construction industry
Construction has the highest insolvency rate of any sector. Jarvey, CEO of Saible, joins us to discuss one of the most overlooked crises in the UK economy: the construction industry's broken payment system.
Chris Green029: Building AI-powered due diligence before the hype
Chris Green, CEO of Xapien, joins us to discuss building AI-powered due diligence long before the current AI hype cycle.
Allen Rohner, James Trunk028: How we build software - engineering culture, small teams, and why our engineering managers still code
David (Co-founder & CEO) sits down with Allen Rohner (Co-founder & CTO) and James Trunk (VP, Engineering) to discuss how Griffin's engineering culture actually works.
Nick Perrett026: Reinventing wealth management
Nick Perrett, founder and CEO of Prosper, joins us to discuss why he left video games to fix wealth management, how to hack trust as a startup, and why AI represents the biggest platform shift since mobile.
Marieke Flament025: Stablecoins, the new stack of money, and why Europe should wake up
Marieke Flament, ex-ceo Mettle joins us to discuss why we're living through a new Bretton Woods moment - except this time, it's happening behind keyboards instead of in meeting rooms.
Stephen Millard022: Why only 1% of startups reach $100M ARR
Stephen Millard from Notion Capital shares the harsh realities of startup scaling. Based on analysis of 14,000 companies over 20 years, Stephen reveals why only 1% achieve significant outcomes and just 1 in 125 reach $100M ARR in under 10 years.
Tim Chong021: Debit with credit benefits
Tim Chong, Co-founder and CEO of Yonder, joins David Jarvis to discuss the realities of building a consumer fintech that's redefining rewards cards in the UK.
Steve Lemon018: Building and scaling a fintech unicorn
From a dark, dank, windowless basement in 2009 to selling to Visa at $1B+ in 2021, Steve shares all the truth about startup life, including the "deafening silence" after you quit your job and nearly shut down multiple times.
Emily Lee016: WTH is banking operations?
Get into the nitty gritty of onboarding, payments operations, billing, compliance and scaling processes at a bank.
Ola Oyetayo010: Building a remittance business in the UK
Ola Oyetayo, Co-founder and CEO of Verto, shares insights on enterprise sales, technology applications in remittance, and why Swift remains "one of the wonders of the modern world."
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