{"podcast":{"title":"Innovation with Mark Peter Davis","slug":"innovation-with-mark-peter-davis-1367720","podcast_index_feed_id":1367720,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/innovationwithmpd/","website_url":"https://www.interplay.vc/podcast","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/7c3c2e2f-e37e-4970-8f8c-d9002bc7ee8b/6v95MP3mlMcpNDOiXIVFZabm.jpg","author":"Interplay","episode_count":157,"summary":"Welcome to Innovation with Mark Peter Davis, a podcast dedicated to innovation, truth, and education. Through fireside chats with entrepreneurs, industry leading executives, and creative minded business folk, I'll highlight the society altering transformations that are happening all around us while providing crucial entrepreneurial advice. Pickup tips from founders who sold their company for hundreds of millions of dollars. Discover how everyday materials and goods are being reinvented by science. Learn about the current state of space exploration and the space industry from the CEO of a rocket company. Join him on this expedition to learn about the innovations that are changing our world and the way we exist. Don’t forget to subscribe and follow on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Medium.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-18T02:19:44.815118+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/innovation-with-mark-peter-davis-1367720"},"episode":{"title":"Rewiring Fintech: How Knot Is Transforming Financial Connectivity","slug":"rewiring-fintech-how-knot-is-transforming-financial-connectivity","published_at":"2026-08-20T16:26:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/innovation-with-mark-peter-davis-1367720/rewiring-fintech-how-knot-is-transforming-financial-connectivity","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/innovation-with-mark-peter-davis-1367720","url":"https://innovationwithmpd.captivate.fm/episode/rewiring-fintech-how-knot-is-transforming-financial-connectivity","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/90aca02d-bc5a-468e-9833-4aa1132b242e.mp3","summary":"Most people only see the front end of fintech. The app. The card. The payment. But underneath that experience is an enormous amount of infrastructure and some of fintech’s biggest opportunities are hiding there. Rory O’Reilly, cofounder and CEO of Knot, joined me on the pod to talk about how Knot is rewiring fintech and transforming financial connectivity. We dive into: Why keeping a card “top of wallet” is harder than it sounds. The infrastructure required to connect financial institutions with thousands of merchants. Why security and compliance are foundational, not afterthoughts, in fintech. Where blockchain and stablecoins could fit into the financial stack. Rory’s unconventional path from selling shoes with his family to building fintech companies with his brother. What I particularly enjoyed about this conversation is that Knot is tackling a problem most consumers don't even realize exists. The biggest innovations in fintech may not be the products we see, they may be the infrastructure quietly making everything work. 🎙️ Listen to the full conversation with Rory O’Reilly here: ⏱️ Chapter Markers: 01:12 — What Knot does: card-on-file updates, top-of-wallet 04:08 — The consumer pain: lost/expired cards and sticky subscriptions 06:20 — Why issuers/fintechs care: interchange and activation 09:05 — Go-to-market: selling to issuers; merchant API approach; 100M calls 12:44 — Security/compliance first: fractional CISO Brian Costello (ex-Yodlee) 16:18 — The fintech iceberg: why infra disruption is a long game 19:45 — Blockchain at the gate: stablecoins, Cash App's Lightning, backend use cases 24:58 — Founder origins: family hustle and resilience 30:36 — Harvard, Thiel Fellowship, gifs.com virality 35:52 — ICOs, ETH windfall and crash, and hard lessons 41:07 — Building wit…","meta_description":"Most people only see the front end of fintech. The app. The card. The payment. But underneath that experience is an enormous amount of infrastructure and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1766,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/innovation-with-mark-peter-davis-1367720/episodes/rewiring-fintech-how-knot-is-transforming-financial-connectivity/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/innovation-with-mark-peter-davis-1367720/rewiring-fintech-how-knot-is-transforming-financial-connectivity.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}