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Zack Peret CEO of : Plaid Company valuation : $ 13.4bn
A former junior consultant at Bain , Zack Perret , 32 , has come a long way in the world of fintech . Prior to entering the world of finance , he earned a BA in science , physics and chemistry from Duke University . In 2012 he founded the payment solutions company Plaid - which doubled its customer base in 2020 to 4,500 . Visa also attempted to acquire the fintech but only offered a deal worth $ 5.3bn and the deal fell through .

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Chris BrItt
CEO of : Chime Company valuation : $ 14.5bn
Chime CEO , Chris Britt , was formerly the CPO and SVP , corporate development for Green Dot . He also had roles at Visa and was one of the first executives at ComScore . Britt launched Chime , now the largest quasi-bank in the US , in 2013 as a mobile banking app . But Britt is a philanthropist at heart and is a Board Member of coachart . org , a non-profit that connects chronically ill children with free lessons in the arts and athletics .
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