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I feel privileged to speak to so many great minds as part of my job. They are passionate builders, insightful investors, laser-focused leaders. They are all curious learners in their own way. It is their urge to learn more. That urge is curiosity. When I speak to these people, I hear fascinating ideas, solid business plans, genius growth hacking practices, relentless team building focus, unique investing strategies and many others. However, most of the time, key insights, business intelligence and inspiring stories shared in these conversations do not make their way to the outside world. The Curious Learners is an attempt to share the stories of those curious learners with those, who might find the inspiration that they were looking for or those who might get the encouragement for their own journey that they already started. Looking forward to a long journey together.
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Hi everyone. My guest today is Mert Mumtaz. He is the co-founder and CEO at Helius, which is a developer platform for the Blockchain ecosystem. Mert is not new to crypto. Prior to starting Helius, he spent years at Coinbase building different products across payments and others. Helius currently supports the Solana ecosystem and Mert has been a big supporter of the ecosystem since its early days.Mert and I had a fascinating discussion about the state of Blockchain, Solana vs. other networks, ...
Hi everyone. My guest at The Curious Learners is Amos Wittenberg. He is the co-founder of Dovetail. Amos and his co-founder Phillip Marks are building the climate risk modelling toolkit for investors. Dovetail helps to identify and quantify risks and opportunities in the era of climate transition.What Dovetail is building is critical for institutional investors' workflows, investment strategies and decision making. And it goes beyond climate-tech investors of course. Take Oil and Gas as an ex...
Hi everyone. My guest at The Curious Learners is Yurii Kyparus. He is the co-founder of Wallchain, which is a start-up that addresses the issue of MEV (miner extracted value) in crypto. MEV refers to value extracted from crypto transactions. Wallchain captures this value and returns it back to users.Here are some of the topics that we discussed on the episode:- MEV as a problem and opportunity in crypto- MEV across different chains- Wallchain versus its peers in terms of technology and busine...
Hi everyone. My guest today is Sebastian Manhart. He is the senior policy adviser at Carbonfuture, which is a technology company building an operating system for high quality carbon removals.Sebastian has a super interesting background of over a decade of entrepreneurship and an advisory role with the German government on decentralized identity. His move into climate-tech and more specifically carbon removals is a result of his passion for this space.Sebastian and I had an eye-opening convers...
Super excited to have Peter Grosskopf on the first episode of the second season. Peter is the co-founder and CTO of Ultimate Money (core product of Unstoppable Finance), which is one of the most exciting DeFi products out there. His background is unique coming into crypto from a combination of software development and fintech building / operating and incubating. Peter and I had a great conversation about what happened in crypto in 2022, future of DeFi and where Ultimate Money is positio...
Hi everyone. My guest today is James West. He is the CEO of Globe, which is a crypto futures exchange. James and I agreed to talk about building a crypto exchange a while back and we kept rescheduling since then. Finally, by coincidence, we happened to record the episode on the day FTX filed for bankruptcy!We talked about James' take on what really happened at FTX , its impact on confidence in crypto markets and of course what he is building at Globe.Here are some highlights from the show.- W...
My guest today is Chris Perkins. He is the President of CoinFund, which is a crypto-native investment firm founded in 2015. Chris joined CoinFund in 2021 after spending a long time in traditional finance. He was most recently a managing director at CitiGroup.His experience in traditional finance is very relevant from the perspective of crypto's future as an industry. Chris was deeply involved at the time in the transition of the traditional finance derivatives industry from unregulated to reg...
Hi everyone. My guest is Kevin Zhang. He is the co-founder of DFX Finance, a decentralized exchange protocol specifically for stablecoins. Kevin has been in crypto for a long time and his journey into building DFX Finance is not a coincidence. Following his time at Consensys, he went on to build Paytrie, which is a stablecoin exchange based in Canada. In fact, it was this experience that made him see the need for a decentralized exchange designed for stablecoins.Here are some highlights...
My guest today is Joshua Frank. He is the co-founder and CEO of The Tie, an information services provider for digital assets. Josh and I met some time ago at a crypto conference and I was truly amazed with The Tie product demo back then. On-chain data is usually accessible, however it is never easy to parse it given the different data structures across chains. In addition, converting data to signals and market intelligence for investors' use requires a lot more processing and a deep understan...
Hi everyone. My guest for the 30th episode of The Curious Learners is Lubomila Jordanova. She is the founder of Plan A, which is a climate-tech company working with businesses and top institutions around the world to help with their sustainability journeys.Prior to starting Plan A, Lubomila had substantial experience in financial services as an investment banker and as a VC investor. She describes her path to Plan A as one with serendipity. However, after seeing her passion for what she does,...
My guest today is Evgeny Gokhberg. He is the founder and managing partner of Re7 Capital, which is an investment firm focused on DeFi strategies.Evgeny is not only an investor in DeFi, but also a deep thinker about the technology behind it, the future of crypto and how traditional finance and DeFi would work together to build a whole new financial world.Our conversation touched upon (of course) his entry into crypto, the current state of markets, his firm Re7 Capital and the future of DeFi. H...
Hi everyone. My guest today is Will Robinson from Alliance DAO. He is the head of Community at Alliance, where he helps web3 founders build amazing companies. Will was in gaming until his move into crypto in 2017 with the help of a healthy! dose of push from his cousin Dan Robinson. In fact, he is the only person that I know with a PhD in game design.Will and I had an eye-opening discussion (for me of course) on his journey from gaming to Blockchain, knowledge accumulation in crypto and...
Hi everyone. My guest today is Mounir Benchemled. He is the founder of Paraswap, which is one of the leading DEX aggregators in crypto markets.Mounir's entry into blockchain dates back to 2013 and he had a front seat to the development of crypto markets since then, first as a user and then builder of DeFi (and this is before it was called DeFi). He is in the camp of founders, who have been frustrated with existing products and decided to build something new.Mounir and I had a deep dive discus...
My guest today is Paul Hsu. He is the founder of Decasonic, a crypto native VC fund. Paul's background and his thesis at Decasonic put him in a unique position to help entrepreneurs ride the next wave of innovation in Blockchain.Our wide-ranging conversation covers the history of innovation in social world, biggest catalysts for mass adoption of web3 and the future of new social world that we are in. It was fascinating to hear Paul's wonderful insights with the hindsight of significant e...
My guest today is Ulric Musset. He is the co-founder of Vauban, which is a technology platform that facilitates private market investing.He and his co-founder Remy Astie have worked on many other projects prior to Vauban, including the very unique idea of a French bakery in London! Luckily for us as investors, they landed on Vauban.Below are some key highlights from our very interesting discussion:- What was critical in the Vauban journey so far? --> It is timing. When started in 2018, a l...
My guest today is my good friend Sam Peurifoy. He is the Head of Interactive for Hivemind Capital Partners and the founder of Playground Labs. The gaming community knows him as Das Kapitalist!Sam is my go-to person when it comes to deep discussions on gaming and web3. It was again a very insightful conversation with him. Here are some highlights from the episode:- Why Das Kapitalist? --> Emerged from the idea of capitalism meeting gaming and also a pseudonym was needed for game s...
My guest today is Josh Benaron. He is the founder and CEO of Bundlr, which is an essential scaling solution for the decentralized storage network Arweave.His story from learning to code on his own to building Bundlr at a time when Arweave would hit network capacity is fascinating!Josh and I had a great conversation about everything decentralized storage and more: - Introduction to Blockchain: Youtube videos for new technologies- Bundlr one-liner: network that bridges web 2.0 and web 3.0 stora...
My guest is Shanti Bergel. He is a gaming industry veteran with significant experience as an operator and founder. He is now one of the founding partners of Transcend Fund, which is a VC fund for the gaming and digital entertainment space.It was fantastic to hear Shanti's deep insights on the industry and his experience with several transformations that have unfolded in this space. Of course, we also talked about the future of web 3.0 and gaming:- There are multiple tailwinds that drive the c...
I don't know if you do, but I don't get to speak to inventors of Blockchain very often.Scott Stornetta is the co-author of three out of eight works referenced in the original Bitcoin whitepaper. Initially, Scott's strong view on the need to create immutable records led him to work with cryptographer Stuart Haber and together invent the very first Blockchain.My conversation with Scott was eye-opening on the original idea behind Blockchain, social and technological developments leading to Bitco...
My guest today is Hasib Malik. He is the co-founder of Creditbook, which is a technology company that empowers merchants and MSMEs in Pakistan.Creditbook was built on the back of a deep market research that identified the biggest pain points for MSMEs in the country.Hasib and I had an insightful conversation about the potential of Pakistan, what MSMEs need the most and Creditbook's current offerings and its roadmap to address them. Please see below a few key discussion points.- There is...
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