Ep. 59: Finding Success as a Fintech Founder
Tyler Griffin
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
Financial Venture Studio
On This Episode
There are several key components that go into the success of a new fintech company that future founders need to know.
Tyler Griffin, co-founder and managing partner of Financial Venture Studio, knows the ins and outs of what it takes for a founder to succeed. Griffin, who has decades of experience in the fintech and banking space, shared his first-hand experience in the fintech community and provided insight into how new founders can connect themselves to the broader fintech network.
Griffin believes that being a smart and capable fintech founder is not enough alone to create a successful business. A founder must be well-versed and familiar with the larger fintech community, compliance ecosystem, and traditional financial network rails in order to be successful. During the podcast, he discussed the importance of establishing connections in the fintech world, building a proven user base, and marketing products to audiences that will love working on it with the founding team. Griffin also provided insight into qualities that make a successful founder, such as being self-aware of weaknesses and having respect for customers.
If you’re a fintech founder (or thinking of starting a new venture), you’ll want to hear what Tyler has to say!
More About Tyler
Tyler Griffin has spent the last 12 years thinking about how to make money work better. He co-founded Prism Money, a consumer-focused bill payment product that allowed for instant and free payments to over 15,000 banks and billers. Now owned by BillGo, Prism is America’s largest real-time payment network. Following Prism’s sale, Tyler became entrepreneur-in-residence for the Financial Solutions Lab, a partnership between JPMorgan Chase and CFSI. In this role, he mentored 16 companies focused on fintech solutions to improve financial health.
Prior to starting Prism, Tyler worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at JPMorgan’s and Citigroup’s Investment Banking offices in New York City. He also worked at a middle-market private equity fund and served on multiple boards of directors.
