Brainfood

Simon Taylor, Alex Johnson, Cokie Hasiotis

Booking Overview

Fintech Brainfood is a niche fintech operator show focused on how builders are fixing payments, stablecoins, and compliance using real engineering + product thinking. It’s strongest as a PR channel for credible fintech CEOs, founders, and infrastructure leaders with a story grounded in execution.

Metrics

Episodes: 9

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000

Gender skew: Male

Listener location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

fintechbrainfood@gmail.com

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Host

Simon Taylor - GTM leader (notably cited as GTM @ Tempo) who interviews fintech CEOs about building financial-services infrastructure, payment failures, compliance, and long-term platform thinking.

Alex Johnson - Fintech content creator/leader associated with Season 1 recap; frames conversations around B2B fintech leadership and how CEOs build durable businesses.

Cokie Hasiotis - Fintech content writer (described as an OG/favorite) who joins as a co-host for fintech leadership and B2B CEO perspectives.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Fintech CEOs/founders (especially in payments, deposits, stablecoins, treasury, and compliance/infrastructure); also strong fintech VC operators/content figures when relevant to leadership takeaways

Required Achievements:

CEO/founder leadership of funded fintech, Category creation or recognized category expertise (e.g., stablecoin/deposits/treasury innovation), Published thought leadership in fintech (product/engineering/compliance viewpoints), Notable media coverage (e.g., mainstream business press for prominent operators)

Recent Guest Discussions

Darragh Buckley - Long-term Infrastructure Thinking; Compliance As Code; Stablecoins Vs Traditional Rails; What’s Broken In Payments

Brandon (Meow CEO) - Why Financial Services Are A Commodity; High-yield Access; Execution And Go-to-market; Stablecoin/high-yield Strategy; FDIC Insurance Via Deposit Sweeps

Recent Topics

Fintech, Payments, Stablecoins, Banking, Infrastructure

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Brainfood

Can Nubank Win in the US? W/ Nubank Founder & CEO David Vélez

October 06, 2026

On Ep. 1 of Brainfood, Simon Taylor, Head of Market Development @ Tempo is joined by David Vélez, Founder & Global CEO @ Nubank to discuss Nubank's US launch, strategy, Hispanic customers, AI banking agents and more!Timestamps:00:00 Introduction0:11 Nubank’s scale, efficiency, US launch, tokenization and AI2:14 Chuck Feeney’s philanthropy and influence on David Vélez4:13 Smart efficiency culture and Nubank’s branchless cost advantage7:10 Hidden US banking costs and the underbanked opportu...

Fintech Nerdcon - Interview with Increase CEO Darragh Buckley

February 18, 2026

In this episode Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo sits down with Increase CEO, Darragh Buckley to explore long-term infrastructure thinking, compliance as code, stablecoins vs. traditional rails, and what’s actually broken in payments. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:19 The motivation for Increase: addressing payment disbursement failures 03:04 Technical and business challenges in international financial expansion 05:00 Viewing compliance as an engineering problem to be solved 07:31 Admiratio...

S1 Recap: Alex Johnson and Cokie Hasiotis Review the B2B Fintech CEOs

June 26, 2024

After speaking to the CEOs of Ramp, Brex, and Mercury, my first instinct is to find other nerds with whom to share my thoughts.Immediately, I thought of Alex, and then I needed to bring some class to proceedings. I called my old friend Cokie (an OG and still my favorite Fintech content writer).This is the most fun, relaxed, and engaging conversation I’ve had about Fintech in a long time.I’m not even going to try and sell it to you.Just take a listen.Who knows if or when I’ll do season 2, but ...

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