Fintech Chatter: Conversations with Fintech CEOs and Founders
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Fintech Chatter is where founders, executives, and investors behind the world's most ambitious fintech companies share what's actually working.
We cover topics like raising capital, scaling internationally, hiring leadership teams, and the challenges of building with transformative technologies across payments, crypto, AI, wealth, insurance. If it's in Fintech we've got you covered.
Hosted by Dexter Cousins, founder of Tier One People, Australia's specialist executive search firm for fintech and transformative technology.
With 17 years placing CEOs, CTOs, CPO's and country managers across the sector, Dexter brings an operator's lens to every conversation.
New episodes biweekly. If you're building, funding, or leading a fintech company - this is your podcast.
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Fintech Chatter: Conversations with Fintech CEOs and Founders
Chris Brycki - Stockspot: Building Australia's Largest Robo-Adviser
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Chris Brycki founded Stockspot in 2013 with no income, no office and no VC, and built it into Australia's largest automated investment service with $1.5 billion under management. In this episode, Chris and Dexter discuss what it actually takes to build an enduring fintech in Australia: staying lean, rejecting growth-at-all-costs capital, and never losing sight of the customer.
About Chris Brycki
Chris Brycki is the founder and CEO of Stockspot, Australia's first and largest automated investment service. He left a career on the institutional side of finance in 2013 to build a lower-cost, evidence-based alternative to traditional financial advice, and has since made money for 99.3% of clients who have invested with Stockspot for at least a year.
What We Discuss
- How Chris validated Stockspot's concept with friends before writing a single line of code
- Why he walked away from institutional finance to start a business with no income
- The Fat Cat Funds Report: how naming and shaming underperforming super funds drove real industry change
- Why paid marketing fails when you're competing against CBA's use-it-or-lose-it budget
- How Stockspot has made money for 99.3% of clients invested for at least a year
- Why Chris rejected VC and how that decision shaped everything that followed
- The discipline required to avoid meme stock temptation during the 2021 trading frenzy
- What nearly $500 million in client profits means in terms of real lives changed
- Why the next generation of fintech will be built with smaller teams and less capital raised
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Background of StockSpot
05:14 The Journey of Entrepreneurship
12:16 Growth Strategies and Media Influence
16:19 Regulatory Challenges in FinTech
20:03 Staying True to Core Values
25:57 The Future of FinTech and AI
30:11 The Evolution of Founders and Startups
35:07 Impact of FinTech on Society
39:10 Maintaining Innovation and Customer Focus
Links and resources
- Chris Brycki on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brycki/
- Stockspot: stockspot.com.au
- Fat Cat Funds Report: https://www.stockspot.com.au/fatcat/
- Fintech Chatter: fintechchatter.com
- Tier One People: https://tieronepeople.com/
This show is brought to you by Tier One People, where we work with founders like Chris to find the 1% who redefine what's possible. If you're scaling your leadership team, start at tieronepeople.com.
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