Best Elliott Gotkine Podcasts (2024)

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Elliott Gotkine - From Habs boy to the BBC's man in Buenos Aires and beyond 49:03

2y ago49:03

49:03

Elliott Gotkine (OH 1994) host of the opening season of 'We Are Habs' is joined by Robert Curtis, Executive Producer of the podcast as they turn the tables on Elliott and welcome him as the guest in this bonus episode. Elliott discusses how he developed his journalism career leading to being a TV correspondent for some of the world's largest media …

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Sir Martin Sorrell - From Hendersons to a global advertising empire (or two!) 59:05

2y ago59:05

59:05

Elliott Gotkine (OH 1994) host of the opening season of 'We Are Habs' is joined by Sir Martin Sorrell (OH 1963). Sir Martin shares stories of his time at Habs and his inspiring career leading the world of advertising as the founder of the world's largest advertising agency, WPP and now as chairman of S4 Capital.…

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Roderick Williams OBE - A musical journey from the Seldon Hall to the Royal Albert Hall 47:05

2y ago47:05

47:05

Elliott Gotkine (OH 1994) host of the opening season of 'We Are Habs' is joined by Roderick Williams (OH 1983). In this episode you can find Roderick sharing the story of his majestic and illustrious musical career and how Habs played a pivotal role in his education and shaping of his life.By We Are Habs

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John Vincent MBE - From longhand at the Old Bailey to Leon and The Longhouse 41:22

2y ago41:22

41:22

Elliott Gotkine (OH 1994) host of the opening season of 'We Are Habs' is joined by John Vincent (OH 1990). In this episode you can find John sharing his memories of being educated at Habs with some quite hilarious tales as well as discussing his own business career, entrepreneurial journey with Leon and his wider social impact missions.…

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Sir Simon Schama - The life and times of Sir Simon at Habs and his life beyond 1:01:29

2y ago1:01:29

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Elliott Gotkine (OH 1994) host of the opening season of 'We Are Habs' is joined by Sir Simon Schama (OH 1962). In this episode you can find Sir Simon sharing his memories of being educated at Habs and how it informed his love of learning leading to his world renowned career as an author, historian and academic.…

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Dr Mala Mawkin - Habs, NASA and improving healthcare in the metaverse 32:09

2y ago32:09

32:09

Elliott Gotkine (OH 1994) host of the opening season of 'We Are Habs' is joined by Dr Mala Mawkin (OH 2013) to talk about her time at Habs and the trajectory of her career in digital healthcare.By We Are Habs

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Credit Kudos Founder & CEO, Freddy Kelly 33:13

2+ y ago33:13

33:13

When he got his first taste of startup life, in San Francisco, freshly-graduated Freddy Kelly did a few months at culinary school on the side. Little did he know that years later, his baking skills would help him blag his way into a conference by virtue of a chocolate cake he'd baked. He met Credit Kudos's first investor there, and his fintech - an…

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Bankin' Co-Founder & CEO, Joan Burkovic 33:21

2+ y ago33:21

33:21

In its early days, banks tried to block Bankin’. Some set up call centres, warning customers of the danger of using the personal finance app, and encouraging them not to use it. On one occasion, they even called Joan, not realising that he was the fintech's co-founder. Nowadays, with open banking, it's a different story; banks, for the most part, a…

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Banxware Founder & Co-CEO, Miriam Wohlfarth 32:17

2+ y ago32:17

32:17

Some people thought launching a fintech during a pandemic was crazy. Then Banxware - a Germany-based, white-labelled SME lending platform - saw its banking partner, Wirecard, blow up. Since then, it's been relatively plain sailing!

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Alpaca Co-Founder & CEO Yoshi Yokokawa 36:09

2+ y ago36:09

36:09

How Yoshi Yokokawa is enabling the world to have Robinhood-style access to financial markets and crypto, and why the Alpaca co-founder & CEO feels the furry camel cousin best symbolises this ambition.

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Professor Penny Endersby - On COP26, learning to fail....and blowing stuff up 27:47

2+ y ago27:47

27:47

Elliott Gotkine (OH 1994) host of the opening season of 'We Are Habs' is joined by Professor Penny Endersby (OH 1988). In this episode you can find Penny reminiscing about her time at Habs, especially in developing her love of science and singing as well as hearing her debrief on COP26, becoming an expert in explosives for the MOD and her current l…

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Wakam CEO Olivier Jaillon 36:49

2+ y ago36:49

36:49

How Olivier Jaillon cheated death, and survived the failure of his U.S. startup, to reinvent a 200-year old insurer-turned-insurtech, Wakam.

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One Family, Four Generations of Haberdashers 48:02

2+ y ago48:02

48:02

Elliott Gotkine (OH 1994) host of the opening season of 'We Are Habs' is joined by four generations of Haberdashers from one family. These include alumni Clive Orton (OH '58), Vanessa Feltz (OH '79), Marc Joss (OH '07), Allegra Benitah (OH '04) and current Habs boy, Zekey. Together they share their own personal experiences attending Habs, the memor…

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Elinvar Co-founder & CEO, Chris Bartz 28:55

2+ y ago28:55

28:55

How having investors from day one helped wealth management platform, Elinvar, get off to a flying start, and why co-founder and CEO, Chris Bartz, says that doesn’t mean there was any less pressure. Fun fact: "elinvar" is an alloy of iron, nickel, chromium, and other constituents, resistant to rust and magnetization and having a low rate of thermal …

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Bitbond Co-Founder & CEO, Radko Albrecht 35:34

2+ y ago35:34

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Aged 14, Radko Albrecht, was one of Germany’s top figure skaters. A child of Slovakian refugees, he was on track to become an Olympian, something that would have required focus, dedication and the ability to pick yourself up when you’re down. He never made it to the Olympics, but those same skills have come in handy with his chosen path: founding B…

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Rish Shah - Habs Boy to the Big Screen 38:38

2+ y ago38:38

38:38

Elliott Gotkine (OH 1994) host of the opening season of 'We Are Habs' is joined by actor, Rish Shah (OH 2006). Rish shares his personal journey in the world of entertainment, landing his current leading role in the Disney movie, Ms Marvel. He also reminisces on his time at Habs and what the school meant to him as a student and now as an alum.…

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iwoca Co-founder & CEO, Christoph Rieche 33:20

2+ y ago33:20

33:20

When Christoph Rieche told colleagues at Goldman Sachs he was leaving to set up iwoca, some of them thought he was crazy. Others were jealous. Ten years later, the second group would appear to have been right: iwoca has now helped more than 65,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) gain access to capital. It's building out new products all t…

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Divido Founder & Advisor, Christer Holloman 40:22

2+ y ago40:22

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The buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) space is on fire right now - just look at Klarna's latest funding round, valuing the fintech in excess of $45b, or the $29b Square paid for Afterpay. So it seems as good a time as any to catch up with Christer Holloman, founder of Divido, which connects banks to retailers, to offer customers BNPL. His other big passion …

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Bunq Founder & CEO, Ali Niknam 37:25

2+ y ago37:25

37:25

How Ali Niknam went all in with more than 100 million euros ($125m) of his OWN money to create an eco-friendly neobank called Bunq (now valued at nearly $2b), and why he doesn’t lose sleep over it - despite the high steaks.

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Minna Tech Founder & CEO, Joakim Sjöblom 27:12

2+ y ago27:12

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Joakim Sjöblom founded Minna Tech to stop people wasting money on subscriptions they no longer want - but seeing his first company fail, and losing money in the process, he says, was worth every penny.

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Simplex Co-Founder & CEO, Nimrod Lehavi 31:08

2+ y ago31:08

31:08

How Nimrod Lehavi turned his frustrating experience of buying crypto into Simplex, and why it was anything but simple.

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Tandem Co-Founder & Former CEO, Ricky Knox 46:21

2+ y ago46:21

46:21

His grandfather founded the Cincinnati Bengals American Football team. Ricky Knox co-founded Tandem (along with 10,000 other people - kind of), while almost striking gold with Bitcoin. He's now stepped down as CEO of the neobank. But with an entrepreneurial journey that's included selling clubbing clothing, and mobile phone infrastructure to the Ce…

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Dreamquark Founder & CEO, Nicolas Meric 41:05

2+ y ago41:05

41:05

How Nicolas Meric made the leap from particle physics to fintech, and the challenges he faced along the way with Dreamquark.

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Railsbank Co-Founder & CEO, Nigel Verdon 47:04

2+ y ago47:04

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Entrepreneurs often describe multiple existential challenges hitting them at the same time as “a perfect storm”. But Nigel Verdon, CEO of banking-as-a-service platform, Railsbank, must surely be the only fintech founder to have gone through one in the literal sense. Of course, being able to keep calm in such trying circumstances can give you perspe…

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Raisin Co-Founder & CEO, Tamas Giorgadse 45:46

3y ago45:46

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Tamas Giorgadse was a chess prodigy who survived civil war and hyperinflation. He finished school aged 12, and completed his masters three years later. He moved to Germany, gained two PhDs and went to work for McKinsey. Next, he co-founded Raisin, Europe’s leading platform for savings and investments. Already a unicorn, the fintech recently announc…

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Collective Benefits Founder & CEO, Anthony Beilin 46:43

3y ago46:43

46:43

A back injury - possibly caused by some overexuberant dancing at a wedding - put Anthony Beilin out of action for six months. Luckily, he worked full-time, at Aviva. His income didn't suffer, and he received all the physical and emotional help he needed. But when a contractor friend came to see him - and told him of his loss of income and benefits …

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Ubble Co-Founder, Juliette Delanoe 40:27

3y ago40:27

40:27

A lunch, an idea and a co-founder she trusted were all it took for Juliette Delanoe to leave her job at Thales to create Ubble, a (for now) French-focused, web-based identity verification startup. As with so many digital-first businesses, the past 12-18 months have been a boon; banks and financial institutions account for more than half the company…

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BUX Founder & Board Member, Nick Bortot 41:47

3y ago41:47

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When he was fired by Citi in 1999, a young Nick Bortot received some friendly advice from his soon-to-be ex-boss: don't get another job in finance. Yet that's just what he did, joining the Netherlands' first online broker, before helping to build BinckBank into the first Dutch fintech unicorn. In 2013 he founded BUX, a pan-European trading platform…

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PrimaryBid Co-Founder & CEO, Anand Sambasivan 42:32

3y ago42:32

42:32

Born in Bombay, and raised in Singapore, Anand Sambasivan was destined to be a doctor - till it turned out he wasn't very good at medicine. He went into investment banking and then set up a hedge fund, where he had privileged access to IPOs and other share offerings. But he didn’t think it was fair. So he founded PrimaryBid to level the playing fie…

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Moneyhub CEO, Sam Seaton 38:55

3y ago38:55

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Sam Seaton was an eventing champion. She flew around the world with her horse in the hold. But after failing to make the Sydney Olympics team, and realising the demands on her and the horses were not what she wanted, she turned her hand to consulting. A management buyout (MBO) of stochastic forecasting company, eValue followed, before another MBO, …

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NAV Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Levi King 43:19

3y ago43:19

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Farmer. Missionary. Electric sign salesman. Hotelier. And most importantly - for our purposes, at least - founder of not one, but TWO successful fintechs. First came SME loan-broker, Lendio. And now NAV, a business financial health platform - matching small businesses with the best loans available, and helping them improve their risk profile, to en…

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Meniga Co-Founder & CEO Georg Ludviksson 44:33

3y ago44:33

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Georg Ludviksson was once Iceland’s top mathlete and creator of a Tomb-Raider-topping video game. But it took the global financial crisis to help turn his fintech, Meniga, into reality. The company is an innovation partner for some of Europe's biggest banks, such as Santander and Unicredit, enabling them to provide customers with advanced digital s…

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Akoni CEO & Founder, Felicia Meyerowitz Singh 41:27

3y ago41:27

41:27

If you can switch financial assets, like stocks and pensions, super easily, why can't you do the same with the bank that holds your cash? This germ of an idea prompted Felicia to found digital cash platform, Akoni. Along the way, she set up a micro-credit startup in India, and co-founded Hive Founders, to help other female founders to follow in her…

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Zego Co-Founder & CEO, Sten Saar 42:27

3y ago42:27

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There's no ego in Zego! And so when Estonian-born Sten Saar replaced his co-founder in the top job, there were no recriminations. Instead, the insurtech, which offers policies from 1hr to one year, has boomed, becoming, after its most recent fundraising, a "reluctant" unicorn. It's not Sten's first success: he founded his first company - notepads w…

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Plum Co-Founder & CEO, Victor Trokoudes 41:33

3y ago41:33

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In his early 30s, Victor Trokoudes was a man without a plan. He was also a man with no savings, and a father who kept nagging him to do something with his money. What should such a person do? Why, co-found and run a fintech that enables people to save and invest without having to think about it, of course. Plum is young, but it's already on track t…

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Onfido Co-Founder & Former CEO, Husayn Kassai 43:51

3y ago43:51

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Aged 10, and freshly arrived in the UK, Husayn Kassai watched his parents struggle to prove their identity. A couple of years later, he “borrowed” his sister’s ID to set up an eBay business that did a roaring trade selling CDs online. These two experiences helped plant the seeds of the idea that, a decade later, would become Onfido, a global leader…

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Pollinate Founder & CEO, Al Lukies 47:14

3y ago47:14

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Running a fintech is apparently just as challenging as playing professional rugby. Al Lukies should know - he's done both, though he only broke half the bones in his leg with the latter. His first attempt - Monitise - hit a market value of some £2 billion at one point. After a stint as the UK Prime Minister's "fintech ambassador", he went on to fou…

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OurCrowd CEO & Founder, Jon Medved 45:00

3y ago45:00

45:00

To paraphrase the opening song in the musical, Avenue Q, what do you do with a BA in History? Become a VC and then a fintech founder, of course! Already well-known as the world’s biggest cheerleader for Israeli tech, Jon Medved set up OurCrowd in 2013 to enable retail investors to get the same kind of access to tech startups that he had as a VC. In…

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Getsafe Co-founder & CEO, Christian Wiens 42:10

3y ago42:10

42:10

Forget glass ceilings, Christian Wiens had to break through glass doors - and be billed for them by his landlord - before being inspired to found his insurtech, Getsafe. Based in Germany, Getsafe provides coverage for everything from cars to drones to pets to legal fees. You could call it: Europe's Lemonade.…

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Liberis CEO, Rob Straathof 44:54

3y ago44:54

44:54

Rob Straathof is CEO of Liberis, an alternative lender for SMEs, whose technology and data enable it to pre-approve businesses for loans. Of all the fintech founders we’ve had on the show so far, Rob’s stints as a cheesemaker and alligator-dodging pilot probably qualify him as the one with the most varied stories. And though he may never have fulfi…

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Zopa Co-Founder & Director, Giles Andrews 45:38

3y ago45:38

45:38

With a passion for motor racing and cars Giles Andrews wasn’t always destined to found a fintech. And when he did, he almost crashed and burned. But under his leadership, he turned the p2p lending pioneer around. And while banks and other lenders were coming unstuck during the global financial crisis, Zopa sailed through - and even grew, eventually…

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Future Family Co-Founder & CEO, Claire Tomkins 39:04

3y ago39:04

39:04

They say founding a startup is like raising a child. After blowing more than $100,000 on her own fertility treatment, Claire Tomkins did both, alongside founding Future Family - a fertility-financing fintech - to help others do the same.

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Goodlord CEO & Nutmeg Chairman, William Reeve 44:30

3y ago44:30

44:30

Serial entrepreneur William Reeve is CEO of lettings software platform Goodlord and Chairman of robo-advisor Nutmeg. He sold his first startup - Fletcher Research - to Forrester (just before the #dotcom bust), and co-founded Secret Escapes. But is probably best known for co-founding LOVEFiLM which, after seeing off Amazon, was eventually bought by …

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Kantox Co-Founder & CEO, Philippe Gelis 48:39

3y ago48:39

48:39

Picture this: you've been beavering away for years on your fintech. Friends and family have chipped in. And now you've just raised your seed round of €1m. Everything is going great - until your bank closes your account for no reason, leaving you with no means to receive the cash. What do you do? Philippe Gelis doesn't need to use his imagination fo…

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Curve Founder & CEO Shachar Bialik 50:28

3y ago50:28

50:28

They say bad things always come in threes. Shachar Bialik would no doubt agree. Brexit and COVID would ordinarily be enough on their own to floor many businesses. Throw in the Wirecard fraud fiasco, and it’s a wonder he’s still around to tell the tale. But not only did he and Curve survive. They thrived. The #fintech recently announced it had raise…

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eToro Co-Founder & CEO, Yoni Assia 43:54

3y ago43:54

43:54

Is working in roller coasters not the perfect metaphor - and experience - for running an online trading platform? We think so! Yoni Assia, who leads social trading platform eToro, had his first taste of entrepreneurship when he founded a startup that involved installing video cameras on white-knuckle rides, and then selling DVDs to the riders as th…

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Hippo Co-Founder & CEO, Assaf Wand 38:14

3+ y ago38:14

38:14

Is it an insurtech, is it a unicorn, is it a hippo? It's all three! Having raised more than $700m, Hippo - which unlike, Lemonade, is firmly focused on homeowners insurance - is one of the hottest insurtechs on the planet. An IPO may happen this year. But getting to this point wasn't a given: “When we started the company," says Assaf, "the VCs kick…

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Purely Capital CEO & Founder, Wayne Godfrey 45:49

3+ y ago45:49

45:49

How working with Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan and Netflix inspired Wayne Godfrey to found his film financing fintech, Purely Capital - and how he narrowly avoided becoming a rap star along the way (check out the WaynieG vs Guru video here!). PS We're taking a break over the holidays. We'll be back on Jan 14. Happy New Year.…

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Straterix Co-Founder & CEO, Alla Gil 48:57

3+ y ago48:57

48:57

In this episode, how being blocked from Soviet grad school set a maths genius grandmother on the path to founding Straterix, a fintech software startup that uses AI to help companies and financial institutions face the future without fear. "You cannot predict anything," says Alla Gil, "but you can have a thousand "what if" scenarios, so you are rea…

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Wave Money CEO & Co-Founder, Brad Jones 34:43

3+ y ago34:43

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Brad Jones - our second Ozzie founder in as many weeks - co-founded Wave Money in 2015. Already profitable, the mobile money and payment app for Myanmar, has grown even faster under COVID. Fintech juggernaut, ANT, is now an investor. And it's valued at $250m. Yet it's not all been plain-sailing. Indeed, Brad, a former paratrooper, describes the lif…

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