Zachary Perret is a fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Plaid, the financial data infrastructure platform, and serves as its CEO. Zachary Perret's Twitter Score is 197 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #2,386 (top 0.5%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Zachary Perret co-founded Plaid and also founded Mischief. Under his leadership, Plaid has grown into a platform supporting over 12,000 financial institutions and over 9,000 digital financial services. Its Investments product retrieves data from crypto exchanges and self-custody wallets, giving Plaid meaningful relevance within the crypto and Coinbase ecosystem. Zachary Perret has been active on Twitter since 2009 and has published 3,080 posts.
Zachary Perret led Plaid through a $250M Series C in 2018 at a $2.65B valuation, and the company raised a $575M round in 2025 at a $6.1B valuation. A proposed $5.3B acquisition by Visa was terminated in 2021 following a DOJ antitrust lawsuit. Also in 2021, Plaid settled a $58M class-action lawsuit over claims related to user data collection.
Zachary Perret has been mentioned by 126 accounts, with 350 total mentions across the platform.
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