Barefoot Innovation Podcast

Episode 6: The Innovative Bank - Manolo Sanchez, CEO of BBVA Compass Can banks be innovators? If so, how? In Episode 6, we tackle that topic with one of the most innovative bank executives in the world – Manolo Sanchez, the chairman and CEO of BBVA Compass.  BBVA  is the Spanish bank that bought the U.S. startup Simple , whose founders we featured in our podcast Episode 2 ( "The Cheerful Disruptor...

Lending Club and its founder, Renaud Laplanche, rank high on nearly every list of fintech disruptors . They are the biggest player in "marketplace lending" – online matching of borrowers with people and institutions willing to lend to them. Marketplace lending (which has evolved from "peer-to-peer" or P2P lending as more institutions join in as funders) is one of the fastest growing innovations in...

When we recorded this short episode with Susan Ehrlich, she was head of global credit for Amazon. She oversaw the Amazon Rewards Visa and Amazon Store Card in the U.S., as well as Amazon credit programs in Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan. Most of our conversation focused on this very unique perspective. Susan has since left Amazon to take on a diverse set of roles as a financial service...

  Arjan Schutte (pronounced Ar-yon Shoot-eh) is  F ounder and  M anaging  P artner at Core Innovation Capital   in Los Angeles. Core is a double-bottom line venture capital company seeding innovation that both helps consumers and wins in the marketplace, with the ability to reach huge scale.  Listeners will discover several kinds of value in his insights.  One is an overview of the fintech innovat...

Episode 2 is my lively conversation with the irreverent co-founders of Simple – CEO, Josh Reich, and Shamir Karkal, the company's CFO. Simple is a Portland, Oregon start-up offering a simplified, consumer-friendly account for saving and making payments.  Last year it was acquired by the global Spanish bank, BBVA , which has been making bold moves in tech innovation. Our discussion captures the cle...

Launching Our Podcasts:   Barefoot Innovation I'm thrilled today to announce two innovations for my blog – first in  what  we're sharing here, and second, in  how  we share it with you. Welcome to our brand-new podcast program,  Barefoot Innovation,  and to our first episode --  a conversation with Raj Date, former Acting Director of the CFPB and now Managing Partner at Fenway Summer LLC. Raj has...