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A guide to the best B2B podcast coverage of Plaid - the shows and 16 episodes that go deepest, ranked by substance, not downloads.

Plaid appears across episodes exploring fintech infrastructure and data integration - from Jason Wilk's work building alternative banking systems, to how companies like Kudos leverage financial data (credit card rewards) to create defensible consumer data moats. The platform sits at the intersection of fintech connectivity, banking access for underserved customers, and the data infrastructure powering modern financial products.

Best shows on Plaid

Best episodes on Plaid

  1. Why the Right Eviction Rate Isn't Zero w/ Brendan from Findigs

    Risk and Reason · 2026-04-23

    92 / 100

    …Um, and you can bring whatever your workflow is that to make a decision, right? And I think one of the first things that we did that was new in market was uh integrate plaid for bank linking.…

  2. From eBay Skunkworks to Agentic Payments w/ Shayanth from Highnote

    Risk and Reason · 2026-04-09

    86 / 100

    …And then you have like, you know, the third-party tools like you know, have plaid and you have Finicity and you have MX, which all provide you external financial accounts as a means to hydrate, validate, verify.…

  3. The man who built a bank for people banks don't want - Jason Wilk [Dave]

    BILLIONS · 2026-06-25

    81 / 100

    …And so a company launched in 2015 called Plaid, which was the conduit between fintechs and large banks.…

  4. Revolutionizing Open Banking with Unified APIs

    The Headless Banking Podcast · 2026-04-16

    75 / 100

    …I'm based in Dallas today, and I got into the personal finance space, built, um, a budgeting app on top of Plaid at the time.…

  5. How Kudos built a consumer data moat on top of credit card rewards

    Tearsheet Podcast: Exploring Financial Services Together · 2026-05-13

    72 / 100

    …So when they connect their accounts through Plaid, we analyze their Plaid purchases and we analyze their credit score credit history and we match them to cards that exactly match the gaps in their wallet based on their spending habits.…

  6. OpenAI ships ChatGPT Personal Finance with Plaid, Anthropic eyes $950bn raise on $30bn ARR, HubSpot launches AEO Sensor for ChatGPT and Gemini visibility, Meta opens Incognito Chat with WhatsApp Private Processing

    The Daily Marketing Brief · 2026-05-17

    71 / 100

    …First up, OpenAI launches ChatGPT personal finance with Plaid US Pro Tier First.…

  7. Episode 190: Orchestrating the Future of Credit: How Alternative Data Pipelines are Changing the Lending Landscape

    DCA Commerce Code · 2026-03-25

    71 / 100

    …So think of Finic City, Akoya Plaid, and we give companies a single API to access financial data from all of these aggregators.…

  8. From trading to infrastructure: Crypto’s real future

    London Fintech Podcast · 2026-05-20

    67 / 100

    …He's a plaid alumni who brings open banking era fintech pedigree to leading the world's largest regulated crypto exchange.…

  9. E86: Inside Mischief VC's Evolution with Zach Perret and Lauren Farleigh

    "Turpentine VC" · 2025-04-22

    67 / 100

    …Zach is the co founder and current CEO of Plaid, and Lauren was the founder of Dote Shopping.…

  10. Ep 811: Fable 5 and Sonnet 5 Released, OpenClaw on Your iPhone, NotebookLM's New Video Format and 7 More AI Features You Need Now

    Everyday AI Podcast · 2026-07-02

    62 / 100

    …So uh, what is the Chat GPT finance? So this is built into Chat GPT and it's OpenAI's personal finance feature that connects your bank and investment accounts via plaid, and then you can ask finance questions grounded in real account data.…

  11. Payments Brief: Aug 9, 2026

    Payments Brief · 2026-08-09

    61 / 100

    …Turning to AI infrastructure - Plaid’s partnership with Sierra aims to embed bank data directly into AI agents.…

  12. Fintech In The Metaverse & Other 2022 Predictions ft. Mark Goldberg, Partner @ Index Ventures

    What's Happening in Fintech Today

    59 / 100

    …I believe, Mark, you and I met a few years ago when you guys led one of Plaid's funding rounds.…

  13. Your Free #Startup Angel Investor VC Fundraising Q&A Advice Show with StartupCouncil.org's Scott Fox

    Free Startup Fundraising Advice & Investor Pitch Practice with Scott Fox, CEO of StartupCouncil.org · 2026-06-26

    56 / 100

    …So we're using MasterCard's uh, Finicity product which allows you to kind of like plaid where you can connect to a bank account and get bank balance information, bank transfer, all that, you know, transfers and checks and all that stuff.…

  14. EPISODE 236: THE BANKADELIC STARS AND SWIPES INDEPENDENCE DAY BLOWOUT

    Bankadelic: The colorful side of finance · 2026-07-02

    42 / 100

    …When you see perplexity computer and OpenAI and ChatGPT basically offering Plaid where you know, they can pull in, meaning the consumer can pull in or the business can pull in their financial data into those environments.…

  15. How Plaid Unlocked Fintech by Building the Banking API

    Startup Stories with Fexingo · 2026-07-20

  16. How Plaid Built the Plumber for Financial Data

    Startup Stories with Fexingo · 2026-07-08