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Episode 154 Walter De Oude on Building Chocolate Finance to $1.6 billion AUM in 2 Years | Scaling with Perpetual Optimum | The Tim Castle Show

2026-09-0557:57

What does it really take to disrupt an industry—and how do you know when you’re visionary rather than simply wrong? In this episode of The Tim Castle Show, Tim sits down with Walter de Oude, the entrepreneur who founded Singlife and grew it to a valuation of S$3.2 billion before launching Chocolate Finance, which now manages S$1.6 billion in assets. But this conversation goes far beyond business success. Walter reveals the experiences that shaped his relationship with money, risk and ambition...

Episode 153 Make $1 Million by Graduation or Your Tuition Back | Nat Eliason on Founders School Reinventing Education

2026-08-1652:18

What if the education system is preparing our children for a world that no longer exists? In this episode of The Tim Castle Show, Tim sits down with entrepreneur, author and Growth Machine founder Nat Eliason, now helping build Founders School, the entrepreneurship track of Alpha School, to examine a radical new model for learning in the age of AI. The idea is bold: compress academics into the morning, then give teenagers the rest of the day to build businesses, sell, experiment a...

Episode 152 Oli Budgen Impact and Influence in PR | Scaling a Service Business | The Tim Castle Show

2026-08-1053:30

One of my favorites right here, Oli Budgen spills the beans on what he's been doing to make Bud Communications a rip roaring success. With impact and influence as its core mission, brands are flocking to Bud Communications PR Agency. Whether no one knows about your business or you are in crisis management - Oli and the team have got you covered. We discuss how it is building a business and the tolerance with terror. How to invest in the team, when you don't have budget. How to challenge...

Episode 152 Afia Sengupta Follow the Money: How Hidden Fortunes, Fake Identities and Crypto Trails Are Exposed

2026-08-0353:31

Money can be moved, disguised and divided but can it ever truly disappear? In this gripping episode of The Tim Castle Show, I sit down with Afia Sengupta, licensed crime investigator, anti-money-laundering specialist and CEO of CAT Investigators, to explore the hidden world of financial crime, crypto scams and asset tracing. Afia explains how investigators follow money concealed through digital wallets, shell companies, overseas entities, family members and sophisticated financial networks. S...

Episode 151 Andrea Tortella CEO of thrad | Ads In ChatGPT - Context Is The New Cookie | The Tim Castle Show

2026-07-0336:39

Context is the new cookie. Tim Castle is joined by Andrea Tortella, CEO of thrad, to explore the future of advertising in AI conversations. As consumers move from searching to asking, comparing and deciding through AI tools, brands face a defining opportunity: become useful at the exact moment intent is created. Andrea shares how thrad is approaching brand-safe conversational advertising, ad opportunity detection, AI guardrails, targeting in ChatGPT and LLM environments, and more meaningful b...

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