Meet Vaibhav Puranik. Chief of Staff at Heracles Corp, A Bay area HQ-ed company building solutions to radically reduce cost of capital across the world. Vaibhav is an individual with a true understanding of both the tech and business mindset, a skillset that I truly value. He has played many roles in his career from founder, to head of product, to consultant, to investor. All of these roles has allowed Vaibhav to think about the many angles for the topic we will be discussing today, core infrastructure.
While not the most glamorous of topics, core infrastructure is the fundamental backbone to all things fintech and the future of financial services. While there has been a lot tried and tested surrounding the core for the last 20 years or so, there isn't a fully baked solution that is fully market ready. There are so fabulous solutions in market for specific things, but there aren't integrated players that allows for a product build from scratch within financial services thus in many ways limiting what is possible. We have seen success on both the vertical and horizontal fronts, but these players don't work seamlessly together. Listen in as Vaibhav and I discuss the journey of the core infrastructure and where we go from here.