https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-moneylions-evolution-from
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In this conversation, we chat with Cynthia Kleinbaum Milner – Chief Marketing Officer at MoneyLion, a FinTech company providing financial access to Middle America. She is accountable for brand…
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-the-techstars-web3-thesis
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In this conversation, we chat with Pete Townsend – Managing Director at the Techstars Web3 accelerator. Pete is an early-stage startup investor, advisor, non-executive director, and podcaster…
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-how-banking-and-power-intersect
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In this conversation, we chat with Caitlin Long – founder and CEO of Custodia Bank (formerly Avanti Financial Group). Caitlin is considered one of the most popular personalities in Bitcoin and…
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-how-ai-enriched-data-aggregation
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In this conversation, we chat with Farouk Ferchichi – President of Data and Analytics at Envestnet. Farouk is a Senior Executive, a business leader, and a CDO 4.0 (a product-centric approach t…
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-deconstructing-fintech-innovations
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In this conversation, we chat with Aman Behzad – founder and managing partner of fintech-focused corporate finance advisory firm, Royal Park Partners. Providing the expertise needed to enable…
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-a-glimpse-into-stablecoin
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In this conversation, we chat with Paolo Ardoino – Chief Technology Officer at Bitfinex and Tether. With his experience spanning close to 10 years in Web3 alone, Paolo Ardoino is a veteran in …
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-how-to-be-a-great-fintech
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In this conversation, we chat with Asaf Horesh – General Partner at Vintage Investment Partners. Asaf specializes in Fintech, Crypto, Cloud/SaaS investments in Israel, EU and the US. Some of his notable deals include Wolt, Mirakl, Bluevine, Alooma and Datarails.
Prior to Vintage, he was a Principal at Greylock IL (now 83North) where he worked on enterprise software and consumer deals across Israel and Europe. Before Greylock he was a consultant at BCG and an engineer at Elbit Systems.
Asaf holds a BSc in Computer Science and Management (Magna Cum Laude) from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar (High Honors).
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-building-a-unified-digital
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In this conversation, we chat with Aron Alexander – Founder and CEO of the digital value and infrastructure provider Runa. Aron has been deeply engrossed in the commerce world since his early days spent in his family’s retail and grocery stores. This interest would later expand into managing a family office and leading a division at a B2B2C payment company. However, it was an exasperating experience of trying to spend a £5 paper voucher received by mail that served as the spark for his entrepreneurial journey.
In 2016, he channelled this frustration into the foundation of WeGift. His vision for the company was to revolutionise the way digital value is disseminated and utilised by organisations, individuals, and merchants alike.
Fast forward 7 years, WeGift re-emerged as Runa, the digital value infrastructure set to fill a gap …
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-visas-network-of-networks
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In this conversation, we chat with Emma Kerr – Senior Vice President, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Europe at Visa. Her team is responsible for all the Big Tech, FinTech and Enabler relationships across Europe – focusing on driving innovation at Visa. Prior to this role, she was the VP of Strategy and Operations for UK&I driving industry initiatives and deals. Before then, she was the Chief of Staff to the CEO and Chairman of Visa between 2016 to 2019. Emma spent her early career in Visa’s digital product business and merchant and acquiring team in Asia Pacific. Kerr holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and English from Northwestern University. Additionally, she holds an Integrated Marketing Communications certificate from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-how-to-build-an-investment
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In this conversation, we chat with Leif Abraham – co-CEO and Founder of Public, an investing platform used by millions and valued at over $1.2 billion. Founded in 2019, Public now serves 3+ million customers and has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from Greycroft, Accel, Lake Star, Tiger Global, and many more. The company has quickly risen to become one of the most popular financial applications in the United States by blending stock trading, crypto investing, and community discussions. The recent acquisition of Otis suggests the company will enable fractional investing in assets like cars, art, and NFTs in short order.
Before Public, Leif was the founder and CEO of a business called AND CO, a SaaS platform for freelancers. AND CO was acquired by Fiverr to become Fiverr Marketplace in 2018. To round off the serial natu…
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-how-embedded-finance-leader
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In this conversation, we chat with Sankaet Pathak – founder and CEO of Synapse, the largest regulated banking-as-a-service platform that provides payment, card issuance, deposit, lending, compliance, credit and investment products as APIs to more than 18 million end users.
After having emigrated from India to study Computer Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, and Physics at the University of Memphis. His experience of not being able to open a bank account due to his immigrant status, prompted him to launch a financial services company that could reduce barriers to entry for underbanked or unbanked individuals. Through his efforts, Sankaet found that the true barrier to entry was an outdated infrastructure which kept everyday folks from accessing best-in-class financial products. Today, Synapse services over 1.8 million end-us…
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-revolutionizing-web3-identity
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In this conversation, we chat with Sandy Carter – Chief Operating Officer at Unstoppable Domains, a Web3 domain name provider. Additionally, she founded Unstoppable Women of Web3 (WoW3), a membership organization focused on training the next generation of women leaders in Web3.
Prior to Unstoppable Domains, Sandy was vice president for public sector partners at Amazon Web Services, where she drove partnerships in cloud, machine learning, IoT and blockchain, growing the ecosystem over 45%. She also founded a startup in Silicon Valley and served as general manager of ecosystems and startups at IBM. Sandy is the chairman of the Board of Girls in Tech, an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley and the author of “Extreme Innovation.” She holds a B.A.Sc. in computer science from Duke University and an MBA i…
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-using-macroeconomic-and-fundamental
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In this conversation, we chat with Jeff Dorman – Chief Investment Officer at Arca. Jeff leads the investment committee and is responsible for portfolio sizing and risk management. Jeff has over 17 years of trading and asset management experience at leading firms, including Merrill Lynch and Citadel, where he oversaw trading of over $100 million in proprietary capital. Jeff also served as COO of Harvest Exchange, a FinTech company that is widely used by asset managers and investors. Jeff is a CFA Charterholder and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance and Economics from Washington University in St. Louis.
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-from-mobile-credit-to-autonomous
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In this conversation, we chat with Sasha Orloff – Co-Founder and CEO of Puzzle Financial. Prior to this, He was CEO and Co-founder of LendUp and the co-founder, and an Advisor to Mission Lane, the credit card division that started and spun out of LendUp in 2019.
Orloff focused on expanding financial services to new segments or markets and finding ways to harness new technology to improve lives. Ten years ago, after reading Banker to the Poor by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, Sasha was inspired to go move to one of the poorest countries in the world, Honduras, where he worked for The Grameen Foundation.
What started as a six-month internship, turned into years of service in Honduras because he found the work so inspiring. Prior to launching LendUp in San Francisco in October of 2012, Sasha worked at The Grameen Founda…
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-the-role-of-usdc-and-tokenized
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In this conversation, we chat with Teana Baker-Taylor, VP of Policy and Regulatory Strategy, EMEA for Circle, a financial technology company and sole issuer of the digital currencies USD Coin (USDC) and Euro Coin (EUROC). Teana works directly with policymakers on the development of regulatory policy for digital currencies.
Prior to Circle, Teana was the Chief Policy Officer for the Chamber of Digital Commerce, where she worked with Capitol Hill policymakers and regulators on policy developments for digital assets and blockchain. Previously, she held leadership roles at Crypto.com and Binance, where she was responsible for go-to-market strategies, operations, and government affairs.
Teana was also previously the Executive Director of Global Digital Finance, leading policymaker advocacy initiatives focussing on the risks and o…
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-exploring-stripes-growth
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In this conversation, we chat with Ashwin Kumar, Stripe’s Head of Startups for Banking-as-a-Service. Ashwin is the former CEO and co-founder of Y Combinator-backed Sway Finance, and now helps Stripe’s customers to use their BaaS APIs to embed financial products.
Ashwin’s startup roots help him guide fintech founders as they work with Stripe to solve complex financial problems. He’s designed products from scratch, taught himself to code, won several hackathons to support his entrepreneurial endeavors, and was part of Y Combinator’s S16 cohort. Prior to joining Stripe in 2021, Ashwin was a data scientist for YC Startup School, a product manager/machine learning engineer at Mythic and a software engineer at Autopilot.
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-exploring-nigerias-payments
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In this conversation, we chat with Alisa Chinedu, Retail Manager at Remita. Remita is a payment solution platform that helps individuals and businesses make and receive payments, pay bills, and manage their finances; making it key to supporting the Nigerian payments and fintech ecosystem.
Alisa Chinedu is a seasoned IT, business, and marketing strategist with extensive experience in financial technology and back-office automation. With a degree from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Alisa has developed key expertise in innovation advisory and business strategy. As an avid tech enthusiast, Alisa has been part of teams driving key innovative initiatives within the Fintech Ecosystem. He is a core believer in democratizing payment and leveraging indigenous talent. Alisa has extensive experience in the financial techn…
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-the-success-of-crypto-payment
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In this conversation, we chat with Eric Barbier, CEO of TripleA a crypto payment gateway regulated by MAS, Singapore’s Central Bank. president of PayTop a French FinTech and is also on the board of stc pay, the neobank of stc, the largest mobile network in Saudi Arabia.
Eric is the founder of TransferTo (now Thunes and DT One), the global mobile payment network interconnecting financial institutions, merchants and mobile operators in Emerging Markets. Eric founded TransferTo in Singapore in 2006. TransferTo has been acquired by Ingenico, the leading payment solutions provider.
Before TransferTo, Eric co-founded Mobile 365, the global mobile messaging hub. Mobile 365 was acquired by Sybase (now SAP) in 2006. Eric holds a Master’s Degree in Information Technology.
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-the-fintech-evolution-investment
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In this conversation, we chat with Anish Acharya is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he invests primarily in financial services and adjacent technologies. He currently serves on the boards of Deel, Mosaic, Silo, and Titan. Anish joined Andreessen Horowitz in 2019.
Prior to joining A16z, Anish held multiple roles at Credit Karma including the General Manager of Core Product and General Manager of U.S. Card, which he helped scale to over 100MM members and nearly $1B in 2019 revenue. Anish joined Credit Karma in 2015 via the acquisition of Snowball, a notifications startup he founded a year earlier.
Prior to creating Snowball, Anish founded SocialDeck, a social-gaming company that was acquired by Google in 2010. He went on to lead various mobile product efforts as well as invest at Google Ventures. Anish graduated f…
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-building-an-800mm-blockchain
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In this conversation, we chat with Jacqueline Kennedy, Chief Operating Officer at Quicknode. QuickNode is a Web3 infrastructure platform, that helps developers and businesses build, launch, and scale blockchain-powered applications (dApps). Tech maverick, investor, and visionary leader. From co-founding Oasys with Mark Cuban to driving growth at Amazon and Afore Capital, her strategic brilliance has left an indelible mark on the industry. With an unstoppable drive and a talent for spotting disruptive technologies, she’s made QuickNode a global powerhouse. Jackie’s passion for diversity and inclusion sets her apart, inspiring aspiring entrepreneurs to break barriers. A trailblazer in the tech world, she proves that with tenacity and vision, one can shape the future and make a lasting impact.
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-value-of-digital-identity
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In this conversation, we chat with Alain Meier, the Head of Identity at Plaid. Plaid builds a data transfer network that powers fintech and digital finance products. Plaid’s product, a technology platform, enables applications to connect with users’ bank accounts. Alain has spent the past decade problem-solving in all things digital identity. He was a founding member of the Stanford Bitcoin Group and went on to start identity verification company Cognito, which was acquired by Plaid.
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-data-aggregation-for-small
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In this conversation, we chat with David Hoare, the CTO and co-founder of Codat – a universal API platform that connects small businesses to banks and other financial platforms. Dave has proven to be an expert in the fields of digitally native platform businesses through his background. Having previously worked as a software engineer at Kriya (formerly MarketFinance) from 2015 to 2017. Kriya was the UK’s first online-only invoice finance provider. It’s grown to become one of the largest invoice finance providers in Europe, having now funded billions of pounds worth of invoices. Additionally, Dave worked as a software engineer at digital publishing company Archant from 2012 to 2014. Dave holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-building-a-decentralized
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In this conversation, we chat with Antonio Juliano, founder and CEO of dYdX – a crypto derivatives trading platform that caters to professional traders outside the U.S. It averages roughly $2 billion in daily trading volume (Coinbase does about $5 billion).
After obtaining a computer science degree at Princeton University in 2015, Antonio started working at Coinbase as a software engineer, where he learned about cryptocurrency and the world of blockchain. He was fascinated by the new technology, especially after listening to some of the most prominent people in the space give talks at Coinbase, such as Vitalik Buterin and Polychain Capital founder Olaf Carlson-Wee.
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-modern-wealthtech-for-complex-faa
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In this conversation, we chat with Padman Perumal is the Chief Executive Officer of for Masttro. Masttro is a privately-held FinTech company that delivers a truly global wealth technology ecosystem to wealth owners and their trusted advisors. Before Masttro, Padman was Managing Director and Transformation Executive for the Commercial Bank division of JP Morgan Chase where he was member of the Commercial Bank’s Operating Committee responsible for building the division’s transformation function.
Prior to joining JPMC, Padman served as Chief of Staff, Head of Strategy and Head of Platform Development for the Private Banking Americas business at Credit Suisse. In this role, Padman was responsible for the operating infrastructure and capabilities of Private Banking Americas and the enhancement of its client and advisor experience…
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-the-psychology-of-entrepreneurship-c13
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In this conversation, we chat with Dave Balter, Co-Founder and CEO of Flipside Crypto, which provides business intelligence to blockchain organizations. In addition to crypto, his experience spans media, marketing, and analytics.
Dave is a serial entrepreneur having built multiple companies that have been acquired. Mylestone and Smarterer, the latter of which was acquired in 2014 by Pluralsight. Post-acquisition, he led the mergers and acquisitions wing for Pluralsight. He also built and led BzzAgent, which was acquired in 2010 by Tesco PLC. After the Tesco acquisition, Dave worked for the company’s retail analytics firm dunnhumby, where he led M&A and developed the company’s fund, dunnhumby Ventures.
Dave has served on multiple executive teams for global organizations and previously invested in startups as a venture partner f…
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-building-a-sovereign-privacy
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In this conversation, we chat with Christopher Goes – the Co-Founder of the Anoma Project, a member of the Anoma Foundation Council, and Research & Development Lead at Heliax. He is also Co-Founder of the proof-of-stake validator Cryptium Labs and the blockchain R&D company Metastate, and formerly led on the design and development of the Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC) at Tendermint.
Christopher didn’t always work in blockchain, though, having started his career programming autonomous underwater robotic submersibles. He switched to designing distributed ledger technology by building Zchain, one of the most used explorers for ZCash and the Wyvern DEX protocol which powers NFT marketplaces like OpenSea.
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-predicting-the-market-using
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In this conversation, we chat with Arnaud Castillo, founder and CEO of CrunchDAO. CrunchDAO is a research team of data scientists and quants that leverage the power of collective intelligence and Web3 to produce and sell next-generation predictive financial insights. During the discussion, Lex and Arnaud touch on decentralized asset management, data science, portfolio-builder, and web3 organization. In this conversation, Arnaud shares his background in finance, including his experience working at Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank, and his work in consulting and entrepreneurship.
The conversation also covers the concept of economic value added and its potential connection to the idea of adding value to a DAO or DAO network. Lex and Arnaud discuss the challenges of using machine learning in financial markets and how CrunchDAO …
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-diving-into-ethereum-restaking
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In this conversation, we chat with Calvin Liu, Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer, who are building infrastructure to extend Ethereum’s trust network to any distributed system. Simply, EigenLayer enables users to restake their ETH and extend cryptoeconomic security to additional applications on the network.
Calvin also serves as an investor at Divergence Ventures, who are focused on pre/-seed crypto companies, and prior to EigenLayer, he was the ex-Strategy Lead at Compound Labs, in which he helped build and deploy the Compound interest rate protocol.
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-reinventing-the-credit-card-da6
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In this conversation, we chat with Siddharth Batra, Co-founder at X1 Card. Sid was previously a Director of Engineering at Twitter, responsible for leading the group of teams working on Advertiser & User experience products through which Twitter Ads makes $2+ billion in revenue.
Sid has also been a Fellow at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and a Co-Founder at Mine, a web and mobile application that enables people to manage, visualize and share their purchase history. Sid has also served as a Research Assistant – AI Lab at Stanford University, and a Teaching Assistant – Machine Learning at Stanford University. Sid holds an MS in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from Stanford University.
https://lex.substack.com/p/podcast-modern-spend-management-systems
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In this conversation, we chat with Hristo Borisov, CEO and co-founder of Payhawk. Founded in 2018, Payhawk is a leader in B2B payments and expense management. The company’s mission is to become the world’s biggest bank without holding a single dollar. Businesses from 27 countries actively use Payhawk credit cards and payment products to save time and money managing their company expenses.
With a strong engineering and product background, Hristo spent 11 years leading cloud and mobile products at Progress. He studied both Computer Science and Business Administration at the American University in Bulgaria and has developed a patent pending technology for declarative programming techniques to create conversational intelligence for a chatbot.
