447: How Suneera Madhani Trusted Her Intuition and Built Stax into a Unicorn Startup

Suneera Madhani is the CEO and founder of the all-in-platform transaction platform Stax. She’s listed on Fortune’s prestigious 40 Under 40 list, a recipient of EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year award, and host of CEO School, a top 25 entrepreneur podcast with a 300,000 female-listener community. Last year, Stax became a unicorn startup with a billion-dollar valuation. But for Madhani, it’s not about milestones–it’s the journey. Learn about her incredible journey from the daughter of immigrants to a CEO breaking barriers in a male-dominated fintech startup industry. 

Listen to Nathan and Suneera discuss:

Her upbringing with entrepreneurial immigrant parents 

What she learned from working at her family businesses 

Her subscription pitch getting rejected by her bosses 

Starting a business with family and friend's capital 

Proving out a hypothesis with a scrappy MVP

Fundraising in a male-dominated fintech community 

Her “3 minds” for decision making 

Mentorship and building a trusted team 

Starting her podcast and supporting female founders

And much more fintech and startup advice…


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