Investing in innovation with Mastercard's Jeff Allen by Tearsheet Podcast published on 2017-05-02T08:33:10Z If you want to drill deeper into the topics we discuss weekly here on the show, you're going to want to attend our upcoming event, Tearsheet Money. We'll be convening June 5th in New York City to hear about the state of the art in fintech and read some of the industry tea leaves with talks from senior executives at firms like JP Morgan, BlackRock, Silicon Valley Bank, Umpqua Bank, HSBC, Citizens and American Express. I'm excited — I hope you'll join us. Go to www.tearsheet.co/events (http://www.tearsheet.co/events) to learn more and register. This week's guest on the podcast is Jeff Allen, who runs Mastercard's strategic investing function. We talk about his career path and how he ended up being a corporate venture capitalist. We drill into how Mastercard as an organization invests in innovation and how the company works to align incentives with its portfolio companies. Lastly, Jeff gives us an inside look into some of his portfolio companies as part of a broader view on fintech trends. You can get this episode of the podcast, as well as 150 previous episodes in our archive, at our website, Tearsheet.co. If you get value out of these episodes, please take a minute to rate us on iTunes. Doing so, helps other people find us. We're also available on SoundCloud. Also, if you're not signed up for our newsletter, subscribe now. 10,000 industry professionals read our Tearsheet newsletter every week to explore the impact technology is having on the financial services industry. Here's my conversation with Jeff. Genre Technology