In episode 23 Dexter is joined by Fred Schebesta co-founder of Finder, a global personal finance comparison website.
Finder attracts over 10 million visitors each month and employs over 300 staff.
Fred spearheaded the group’s venture capital arm, Finder Venture where he thrives in the startup phase of building new business ideas.
For the past 2 years, Fred has been leading the group’s latest project, the Finder App,
Fred is recognised as one of Australia’s leading entrepreneurs with way too many awards and accolades to mention in an intro!
I chat to Fred about his journey as a founder, making the transition to global CEO and Finders plans in the open banking era.
Move Bank has become the first bank in the world to shift its entire operation, technology, product, operations and compliance, onto Constantinople's platform. Dexter Cousins sits down with Move Bank CEO Mike Currie and Constantinople co-CEOs Macgregor Duncan and Di Challenor to unpack a migration that cut cost to income by around 30 percent and […]
In 2016, Sam Everington joined Starling Bank as one of its first twenty employees. Starling did not have a banking licence yet. It had no product, no brand, and no customers. What it had was a room full of engineers who believed a bank could be built from the customer support desk backwards, rather than […]
Peter Jones used to be the CEO he now sells to. It's helped him bootstrap a core banking platform that now holds 20% market share in Australia's mutual banking sector, without a dollar of outside capital. We are celebrating the World Credit Union Conference coming to Sydney. Dexter Cousins will be bringing you interviews from […]
Andy Taylor is Co-Founder of Stakk an embedded finance infrastructure solution. On 6 July 2026, ASX-listed Stakk Limited signed a definitive agreement to acquire US document intelligence firm ParaScript for US$63 million. I've interviewed Andy more than once over the past decade, way back when he was just starting to build Douugh out of Tank […]
