The Fintech Blueprint
By Lex Sokolin
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Finance is being pulled apart by the forces of frontier technology. From AI, to blockchain and DeFi, mixed reality, chatbots, neobanks, and roboadvisors — the industry will never be the same. Here is the blueprint for navigating the shift.
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Building Artificial Intelligence we can trust using ZK Proofs, with EZKL CEO Jason Morton
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May 07, 2024 |
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How Affirm built the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) industry, with President Libor Michalek
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Betterment's path to $45B and beyond, with CEO Sarah Levy
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Powering $2.5T of Private Equity, with Carta Head of Policy Anthony Cimino
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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How NVIDIA is accelerating financial services into the AI age, with NVIDIA Global Head of Financial Services Industry Malcom deMayo
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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The promise behind investing in private credit, with Percent CEO Nelson Chu
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Saving DeFi from financial hacks, with Quantstamp CEO Richard Ma
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Building on Bitcoin Lightning Network and Lessons from Libra, with Lightspark Chief Strategy Officer Christian Catalini
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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How AI is generating and digitizing documentation across financial services, with Arteria AI CEO Shelby Austin
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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The evolution of derivates from structured products to decentralized perpetuals, with SynFutures CEO Rachel Lin
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Investing in frontier capital markets, from Eastern Europe to ICOs, and tokenized securities, with TenSquared Capital Managing Partner Stan Miroshnik
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Building modern digital lending across Capital One, Barclaycard, Funding Circle, and TRIVER, with TRIVER CEO Jerome Le Luel
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Understanding Autonolas, the $2B autonomous agent network running on blockchain, with Valory CEO David Minarsch
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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The state of Fintech and the sector's biggest opportunities, with FT Partners CEO Steve McLaughlin and Fintech Meetup CEO Jon Lear
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Advancing Bitcoin with Lightning, Inscriptions, and L2s, with Blockstream's Chief Product Officer Jeff Boortz
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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How Animoca Brands built an empire at the intersection of Gaming and Finance, with Animoca Brands Chairman Yat Siu
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Can open banking power AI-based finance?, with Bud CEO Ed Maslaveckas
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Bringing MetaMask to the next billion users, with Agoric CEO Dean Tribble and MetaMask Co-Founder Daniel Finlay
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Modernizing private investment infrastructure, with Templum CEO Christopher Pallotta
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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How Legalist, a $770MM litigation finance investment firm, uses tech and data analytics to deliver alpha, with Co-Founder Eva Shang
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Engineering the Dollar from ETH and Perpetuals, with Ethena Labs founder Guy Young
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Using AI to digitize financial documents at scale, with Ocrolus CEO Sam Bobley
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Embedding lending and credit into the fintech value proposition, with Canopy CEO Matt Bivons
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Embedding Web3 infrastructure into Web2 platforms, with Bastion Co-Founders Nassim Eddequiouaq and Riyaz Faizullabhoy
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Mastering fintech from public to private investments, with Portage CEO Adam Felesky
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Applying artificial intelligence to investing and finance, with Auquan CEO Chandini Jain
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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How to build a $60B volume global payments platform, with Rapyd CEO Arik Shtilman
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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MoneyLion's evolution from neobank to financial education marketplace, with CMO Cynthia Kleinbaum Milner
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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The Techstars Web3 thesis and advice on building companies, with Pete Townsend Managing Director at Techstars
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Modernizing the entire banking system, with Caitlin Long, CEO of Custodia Bank
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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How AI-enriched data aggregation is empowering the next generation of financial institutions, with Envestnet's Farouk Ferchichi
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Deconstructing fintech innovations, valuations, and exit strategies,with Royal Park Partners Managing Partner Aman Behzad
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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A glimpse into stablecoin Tether and crypto exchange Bitfinex, with CTO Paolo Ardoino
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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How to be a great fintech venture capital investor, with Vintage Investment Partners General Partner Asaf Horesh
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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From gift cards to a global payments network of digital value, with Runa CEO Aron Alexander
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Visa's network-of-networks strategy and vision for Web3 commerce, with Visa Europe's SVP Emma Kerr
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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How to build an investment fintech with over 3 million members, with Public Founder Leif Abraham
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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How embedded finance leader Synapse grew to powering 10MM+ consumers, with CEO Sankaet Pathak
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Revolutionizing Web3 identity with lessons from IBM and Amazon
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Using macroeconomic and fundamental analysis to understand crypto markets, with Arca CIO Jeff Dorman
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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From mobile credit to autonomous accounting using financial data and AI, with Puzzle CEO Sasha Orloff
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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The role of USDC and tokenized cash in Decentralized Commerce, with Teana Baker-Taylor, Circle VP of Policy and Regulatory Strategy EMEA
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Exploring Stripe's growth in embedded finance, with Stripe Head of Startups for Banking-as-a-Service, Ashwin Kumar
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Exploring Nigeria's payments landscape and CBDC eNaira's adoption, with Remita's Alisa Chinedu
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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The success of crypto payment processing in eCommerce, with Triple-A CEO Eric Barbier
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Investing in technology platform shifts, from Fintech to Generative AI, with A16z General Partner Anish Acharya
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May 19, 2023 |
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Building an $800MM blockchain infrastructure company with Quicknode COO, Jackie Kennedy
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May 12, 2023 |
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Value of digital identity in fintech and crypto, with Plaid Head of Identity Alain Meier
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May 05, 2023 |
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Data aggregation for small businesses across banking, accounting, and commerce, with Codat CTO David Hoare
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Building a decentralized exchange and appchain for perpetual contracts, with dYdX CEO Antonio Juliano
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Modern Wealthtech for complex balance sheets, with Masttro CEO Padman Perumal
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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The psychology of entrepreneurship and reimagining collaboration behind Web3 analytics, with Flipside Crypto CEO Dave Balter
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Building a sovereign, privacy-first, programmable, economic infrastructure, with Anoma CEO Christopher Goes
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Predicting the market using a machine learning competition built on a decentralized science platform, with CrunchDAO CEO Arnaud Castillo
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Diving into Ethereum Restaking and DeFi, with Calvin Liu Chief Strategy Officer of EigenLayer
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Reinventing the credit card as a Fintech super app
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Modern spend management systems for CFOs and employees, with Payhawk CEO Hristo Borisov
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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How DAOs and Web3 organizations scale financial operations, with Utopia Labs CEO Kaito Cunningham
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Integrating smartphone behavioural data to manage credit risk and fraud, with Credolab CSO Michele Tucci
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Creating a B2C fintech marketing strategy
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Software contracts and composability unlocking economic growth, with Agoric CEO Dean Tribble
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Powering the AI revolution from DeepDream to Dall-E, with Lambda Labs CEO Stephen Balaban
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Combining payments infrastructure for merchants, digital lending, and DeFi, with Stronghold CEO Sean Bennett
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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The $100B fintech custodian powering digital investing, with CEO of Apex Bill Capuzzi
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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The Fintech Blueprint guide to designing your 2023 business model
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Building digital assets into roboadvisor strategy, with Betterment VP of Crypto Investing Jesse Proudman
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Scaling a core ledger for neobanks, processors, brokerages, and payment providers, with Twisp CEO Jarred Ward
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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The emerging problems in banking-as-a-service, with Lex Sokolin and Will Beeson
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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How to blow up a $32B crypto exchange, with Binance Labs MD of Token Engineering, David Shuttleworth
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Adam Nash, Daffy CEO & former Wealthfront CEO, on using technology to improve people's financial lives
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Embedded custody services and crypto IRAs using fintech APIs, with Prime Trust CEO Tom Pageler
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Metaverse-native virtual artists and their financial ecosystem, with Hume CEO David Beiner
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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AI-based underwriting of small business insurance, with Coterie CEO David McFarland
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Lex Sokolin's 2022 investing and building thesis -- the evolutionary relationship between Tech, Finance, and Web3
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Creating the neobank and embedded finance industry, with Sila CEO and Simple Co-Founder Shamir Karkal
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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How Binance is investing $1B in the BNB ecosystem, with BNB Chain Investment Director Gwendolyn Regina
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Growing an AI-powered digital lender to $850MM in revenue, with Upstart's SVP of Business Development Jeff Keltner
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Eliminating payments fraud from Fintech and Web3 using AI, with Sardine CEO Soups Ranjan
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Transforming art, private equity, and securities into tokenized assets on chain, with Securitize's CEO Carlos Domingo
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Implications of the Ethereum Merge for Web3, with Justin Drake of The Ethereum Foundation
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Podcast Conversation: Building Dave, the neobank saving users $1B in overdraft fees, with Dave Founder and CEO, Jason Wilk
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Teaching financial AI to be ethical and fair, with Fairplay CEO Kareem Saleh
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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How virtual worlds, vast communities, and traditional entertainment are shaping the $200B Web3 gaming sector, with Mark Aubrey of Catheon Gaming
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Connecting 500,000+ small businesses to digital working capital, with Fundbox CEO Prashant Fuloria
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Combining AI and DeFi to underwrite Web3 risks, with RociFi Co-Founder Chris Brookins
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Eliminating payday loans and overdraft fees for 2.5MM employees, with Matt Kopko of DailyPay
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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What is GameFi and the $1B+ fractal DAO building it, with BitDAO Head of Product Strategy Jacobc.eth
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Navigating the macro environment and crypto financial crisis, with the ConsenSys Cryptoeconomics team
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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The strategy behind Revolut's merchant acquiring and paytech growth, with Simon Taylor, Head of Strategy & Content at Sardine.ai
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Powering a BNPL platform with a global lender network, with ChargeAfter CEO Meidad Sharon
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Embedding financial workflow automation in digital banking platforms, with Monite CEO Ivan Maryasin
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Growing startups through revenue-based funding, with Arc Co-founder Nick Lombardo
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Were we wrong about neobanks and B2C fintech? With 2x digital bank founder Will Beeson
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Building the income and employment data layer for financial services, with Pinwheel CEO Kurtis Lin
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Helping DeFi and Web3 developers integrate crypto onramps in 125 countries with Sami Start of Transak
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May 27, 2022 |
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Scaling Ethereum and Web3 using Arbitrum optimistic rollups, with Offchain Labs CEO Steven Goldfeder
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May 20, 2022 |
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NEAR Foundation CEO Marieke Flament on building USDC issuer Circle, business neobank Mettle, and growing the NEAR ecosystem
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May 13, 2022 |
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Building a $200MM DeFi asset manager and DAO treasury management tools, with Mona El Isa of Enzyme
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May 06, 2022 |
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25 years of cypherpunk innovation in money, privacy, and music, with Chia Network COO Gene Hoffman
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Launching protocols, DAOs, and NFTs in media and finance, with CEO of Palm NFT studio Dan Heyman
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Aggregating Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and structuring a DAO, with Sergej Kunz of 1inch
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Building an insurtech platform that scales from Fintech to DeFi, with Cover CEO Karn Saroya
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Stablecoins, Curve Wars, and Olympus as Reserve Currency, with DeFi Researcher Luca Prosperi
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Perpetual futures in DeFi and seeing frontier technology, with Perpetual Protocol Co-Founder Yenwen Feng
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Embedding crypto assets into fintech footprints, with Zero Hash CEO Edward Woodford
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Investing in Web3 and fintech for CFOs, with Redpoint's Urvashi Barooah
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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The Embedded finance revolution in cards and payments, with Highnote founder John MacIlwaine
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Rebuilding banking starting with Teens, with Current CTO Trevor Marshall
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Building an investment platform with a risk management heart, with Riskalyze CEO Aaron Klein
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Powering billions of API-first payment operations, with Modern Treasury's CEO & Founder Dimitri Dadiomov
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Distributing €1.4 trillion of investment funds on blockchain, with Allfunds' Ruben Nieto
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Modernizing $25B of assets with retirement wealthtech, with Vestwell CEO Aaron Schumm
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Upgrading DeFi market-making and liquidity programs, with Carson Cook of Tokemak
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Solving climate change through financial services, with Aspiration CEO Andrei Cherny
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Building the world’s most powerful blockchain development suite, with Michael Godsey of Infura
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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Pioneering Crypto ETPs to $3B in assets in 3 years, with 21Shares CEO Hany Rashwan
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Investing in real estate, crypto, and startups using your retirement account, with Rocket Dollar CEO Henry Yoshida
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Origins of Metamask's 20 million Web3 users, with co-founder Dan Finlay
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Powering the FX behind Africa's trillion-dollar growth, with Aza CEO Elizabeth Rossiello
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Digitizing banks with better BNPL, Underwriting, and Anti-Fraud Tech, with Amount CEO Adam Hughes
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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DAOs 101, with SharkDAO, PartyDAO, and Juicebox contributor Nicholas
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Building a $15B+ embedded loan management platform, with LoanPro CEO Rhett Roberts
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov on building the global decentralized oracle network powering DeFi and Web3
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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How China is winning the race in Fintech, Payments, and CBDCs, with Fintech expert Richard Turrin
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Scaling Web3 with the $10B+ Polygon protocol, with COO Sandeep Nailwal
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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CEO of Yield App, Tim Frost, on integrating DeFi Yield products into a regulated Fintech company
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Robinhood's order flow disrupting equities and crypto market structure, with Paul Rowady of Alphacution
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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What's next in Web3? Tachyon Accelerator's MD Gabriel Anderson on early stage in NFTs, DeFi, & Crypto
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Artificial intelligence, big data, and the future of financial services with Kevin Levitt of NVIDIA
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Art Blocks CEO Erick Calderon on Generative Art, Blockchains, and the NFT movement
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Metaverse 101 with Lex Sokolin and Cris Sheridan, Sr. Editor of Financial Sense
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Altruist CEO Jason Wenk on WealthTech, financial planning, advice, and generally improving financial health
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Treasury Prime CEO Chris Dean on Banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, and the evolution of FinTech API infrastructure
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Sheila Warren of the World Economic Forum on the 4th Industrial Revolution, the role of Law, Government, and DAOs, and the Creator Economy
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Step CEO CJ MacDonald on building the leading Gen-Z bank, TikTok influencers, and culture
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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eToro CEO Yoni Assia on the purpose of investing, crypto assets, and building a $10B fintech
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Fintech venture investing after a career in the US treasury and Wall St equity research, with Patrick Pinschmidt of MiddleGame Ventures
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Building the best payments fiat to crypto onramp, with Ivan Soto-Wright of MoonPay
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Inspiring creativity, collaboration, and visual conversation by harnessing decentralized tech, with Beatriz Helena Ramos of DADA.art
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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From ecommerce to a million+ global financial community, with Maximilian Rofagha of Finimize
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Developing regenerative finance using memes for the public good, with Kevin Owocki of Gitcoin
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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The software stack powering Capital Markets and its coming transformation, with Horacio Barakat of Broadridge
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May 28, 2021 |
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Rob Leshner of Compound on creating a multi-billion DeFi lending protocol, and innovation under constraint
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May 21, 2021 |
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Digital banking opportunities across geographies and generations, with Will Beeson of Bella
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May 14, 2021 |
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Decentralized Identity and the Metaverse, with Michael Sena of The Ceramic Network
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May 07, 2021 |
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Scaling B2B cross-border payments and the competition between global payment rails, with Marwan Forzley of Veem
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Building the foundational money DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) in DeFi, with Rune Christensen of Maker Foundation
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Building global paytech companies and communities with Anil Aggarwal of TxVia, Money2020, and Fintech Meetup
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Building blockchain money and sustainable economies, with former Supervisory Board Chairman of the Icelandic Central Bank and Co-founder of Monerium, Jon Egilsson
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Camila Russo of The Defiant and author of The Infinite Machine discusses crypto journalism, writing about Ethereum's inception, $69M NFTs, and building a DeFi community
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Joe Lubin, ConsenSys CEO and Ethereum co-founder discusses AI, macroeconomics, philosophy, and the future of the $200 billion Ethereum network
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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How a moment on the NYC 6 train turned into using NFTs in the $74T supply chain industry before NFTs were cool, with Tyler Mulvihill of EulerBeats
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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$60B digital capital markets, crypto law and regulation, and Ethereum Layer 2 scaling, with Pat Berarducci
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Matt Low of InveniumX discusses the $250M of non-fungible tokens and the $200MM crypto neo-cyberpunk art market for digital objects (e.g., Beeple, NBA Top Shots), with emerging financial features
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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How M1 Finance's $3B AUM super-app is outcompeting Wealthfront, Robinhood, and Schwab, with CEO Brian Barnes
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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The path from institutional finance (Goldman) to enterprise blockchain (PwC) to the $26B edge of DeFi innovation (Aave) with Ajit Tripathi
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Embedded Finance as a $7 trillion market opportunity for banks in the business of suffering, with Simon Torrance
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Who wins and loses in the Plaid/Visa divorce, and the $10 Billion in new Fintech SPACs (Bakkt and SoFi)
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Jan 18, 2021 |