Zach Perret – The Future of Financial Services – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.13]

<p>Zach Perret is the founder and CEO of Plaid.  Plaid helps companies build fintech solutions by creating APIs that allow people to connect their financial data to apps and services. In this conversation, we dive into Zach's philosophy on building products, how the financial system works today, how the financial system needs to be updated, and the trends Zach is seeing from the next wave of fintech companies launching on Plaid. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Zach Perret.</p> <p> </p> <p>For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content check out <a href= "https://www.joincolossus.com/episodes/39328476/perret-the-future-of-financial-services" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">https://www.joincolossus.com/episodes/39328476/perret-the-future-of-financial-services</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>DocSend is a document sharing platform that enables companies to share business-critical documents with ease and get real-time actionable analytics. With DocSend’s security and control, startup founders, investors, business development executives, and financial professionals can drive business outcomes that have a lasting impact. Start for free at</strong> <a href= "http://www.docsend.com/"><strong>www.docsend.com</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Founder's Field Guide is a property of Colossus Inc. For more episodes of Founder's Field Guide go<br /> to <a href= "https://www.joincolossus.com/episodes">https://www.joincolossus.com/episodes</a>.   </p> <p><br /> Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week.  Sign up here - <a href= "https://www.joincolossus.com/newsletter">https://www.joincolossus.com/newsletter</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p>Follow Patrick on Twitter at <a href= "https://twitter.com/patrick_oshag">@patrick_oshag</a></p> <p>Follow Colossus on Twitter at <a href= "https://twitter.com/JoinColossus">@JoinColossus</a></p> <p><stro