Ashwin Kumar, Stripe Head of Startups for Banking-as-a-Service - On building embedded finance

Published: Nov. 22, 2022, 1 p.m.

b"Andrew Janssens hosts Ashwin Kumar, Head of Startups for Banking-as-a-Service at Stripe. Ashwin is the former CEO and co-founder of Y Combinator-backed Sway Finance, and now helps Stripe's customers to use their BaaS APIs to embed financial products.\\n\\nAshwin\\u2019s startup roots help him guide fintech founders as they work with Stripe to solve complex financial problems. He\\u2019s designed products from scratch, taught himself to code, won several hackathons to support his entrepreneurial endeavors, and was part of Y Combinator\\u2019s S16 cohort. Prior to joining Stripe in 2021, Ashwin was a data scientist for YC Startup School, a product manager/machine learning engineer at Mythic and a software engineer at Autopilot. \\n\\nIn this episode you will hear about:\\n-How Stripe is building the infrastructure for embedded finance\\n-How Ashwin won 30 hackathons in a row by working backwards from the pitch\\n-Why calling your company the Uber for X can backfire\\n-And much, much more\\n\\nFor more FinTech insights, follow us below:\\n\\nWFT Medium: medium.com/wharton-fintech\\nWFT Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech\\nWFT Instagram: instagram.com/whartonfintech\\nAndrew\\u2019s Twitter: twitter.com/Adhjanssens\\nAndrew\\u2019s LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/andrew-p-janssens/"