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Around the Coin

Stephen Sargeant and Mike Townsend

The mission behind Around The Coin podcast is to offer entrepreneurs an alternative perspective for growing their business in and around the payment industry.

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68:13

Sathvik Vishwanath, CEO of Unocoin

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2022/06/07

Sathvik Vishwanath, an MBA from Melbourne Business School, is now a successful entrepreneur and has always put his heart into innovative & disruptive technology! His journey started in 2008 with VentureNext offering scripting services in a virtual world called SecondLife. After being acquainted with bitcoin in 2013, he launched a bitcoin buy/sell service called Unocoin which has now evolved into a Super App for Crypto. The company now serves 2M customers & operates an exchange with 80+

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72:19

Nick Saponaro, CEO of The Divi Project

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2022/05/26

Nick Saponaro is a software developer, Speaker, Musician, and blockchain personality. He is the Chief Information Officer and Co-founder of The Divi Porject. He is also a frequent speaker at blockchain conferences.Nick is an entrepreneur, crypto enthusiast, and keynote speaker who is regularly featured in the media talking about crypto-related issues. Media appearances include Cheddar, CNBC, Quartz, Investing.com, Nasdaq.com, and CoinTelegraph.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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77:22

Joe De Pinto, Co-Founder of Haste Arcade

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2022/05/25

Joe De Pinto was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. After spending 4 years playing professional baseball in the Chicago White Sox farm system, he co-founded his first venture, Barpay, in 2015 with Daniel Wagner.In January 2021, along with Wagner, he co-founded Haste, the world’s first Instant Leaderboard Payout arcade. De Pinto’s vision for Haste is to have the platform serve as a fun and entertaining visual representation of micro transactions, and how they can empower new business models.Learn

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67:32

Michael Kong, CEO, Fantom Foundation

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2022/05/24

Michael Kong is the Chief Executive Officer of Fantom. He has a background in Finance and Information Technology from the University of Sydney, where he published papers on smart contract security. He worked as the first full-time engineer for Block8, a blockchain development company in Sydney, and later founded one of Australia’s first funds in digital assets (now Trovio Group).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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68:23

Martin Froehler, CEO of Morpher

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2022/05/23

Martin Froehler is the Co-Founder and CEO of Morpher. He is a mathematician, veteran quant, and former hedge fund manager. Prior to Morpher, Martin was managing director of a quantitative research firm in Zürich and CEO of a decentralized quantitative hedge fund in Silicon Valley. Martin experienced the numerous inefficiencies of the trading industry first-hand and founded Morpher to democratize investing.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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60:01

Gabriele Musella, CEO Co-Founder of Coinrule

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2022/05/21

Entrepreneur and C-Level Product Lead with over 20 years experience in Digital Innovation, Business Design, Entrepreneurship, Product Management, Fintech, Future of Money, Team Leadership, Venture Creation, Growth, CxO, C-Level, Strategy, UX, Agile, Lean, Data, FCA.✔ Serial Entrepreneur, Y-Combinator Alumni, 3x fundraiser, leading teams of 30+✔ Mentor at Google, Startupbootcamp, Zilliqa, TechItalia, Virgin - Advisor at Harvard✔ International professional experience in UK - Finland - Italy - Hungary

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64:10

Markus Levin, Co-Founder at XYO

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2022/05/13

Markus Levin is the Co-Founder of XYO, the world’s first blockchain geospatial oracle network backed with cryptography that anonymously collects and validates data with a geographic component.Markus has more than 15 years experience in building, growing and selling companies in hyper-growth industries around the globe. Markus focuses on maximizing institutional potential through the implementation of innovative data-driven solutions. Markus mined his first Bitcoin in 2013 and has been captivated by

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145:14

Arjun Bhuptani, Founder of Connext

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2022/05/12

Arjun is one of the founders of Connext, the interoperability protocol for L2 Ethereum. Connext enables moving value and calldata between EVM chains without introducing trust assumptions. It is also leveraged by infrastructure networks like the Graph for ultra-scalable microtransactions.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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65:37

Alejandro Gutierrez, CEO of Defactor

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2022/05/11

Alejandro has more than 20 years of experience in the supply chain management space and lately has been working in the Trade Tech space and Supply chain finance space.In 2019, Alejandro joined Consolfreight as co-founder, and in 2020, Consolfreight became one of the pioneers of the digitisation and collateralisation of Real World Assets using De-Fi as a main source of funding for factoring and trade finance services. Within a year Alejandro became pivotal to close important partnerships with big

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72:16

Mike Weiksner, Founder & CEO of Pocketful of Quarters

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2022/05/10

An avid business leader, Michael Weiksner is the founder and CEO of Pocketful of Quarters (POQ. He has invested in multiple unicorns, including previously as General Partner at Rostrum Capital, where he helped invest in early stage tech companies. Endowed with an entrepreneurial spirit, he also founded EndlessTV and E-thePeople.org. He is currently leading POQ’s product and technology development as the company looks to unleash the power of gameplay with one universal, interoperable game token on

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63:21

Milana Valmont, CEO of Kira

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2022/05/04

As a fintech professional, Milana offers targeted experience in blockchain, in addition to a combination of expertise in venture capital and financial technology. Throughout her career, Milana has helped organizations enhance results by utilizing strategic processes and motivational leadership to drive consistent growth across new markets. She has demonstrated the ability to secure 7-figure funding from top industry investors to drive business growth across Blockchain and Fintech.As Founder and CEO

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65:32

Neta Rozy, CTO and Co-Founder of Parametrix

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2022/05/03

Neta developed a cutting edge system which monitors SaaS, PaaS and IaaS systems around the globe for downtime events, such as cloud outages, network crashes, and platform failures. The millions of data points that the system collects every day are the basis for the company's insurance products which are the first to incorporate the parametric model into tech insurance. Neta has a background in developing enterprise software and robust monitoring systems, driven by a passion for creating

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66:21

Rohit Mittal, Co Founder and CEO of Stilt

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2022/05/02

Rohit Mittal is the co-founder and CEO of Stilt. A YC-backed fintech company that provides loans to new immigrants and the underserved. Over the past 5 years, Stilt has disbursed hundreds of millions in loans to immigrants from 160+ countries.Stilt has also launched Onbo. An API for companies to launch credit products in weeks.The company has raised $375M in equity and debt since its founding.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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71:37

Cormac Kinney, CEO of Diamond Standard

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2022/04/29

With innovations cited in nearly 4,000 U.S. Patents, Cormac Kinney has founded four startups acquired by public companies. He is a quant finance pioneer who invented heatmaps, designed more than 100 institutional trading systems, and perfected sentiment analysis, using it to manage $500 million for Tudor and Millennium. Now, as founder of Diamond Standard, Cormac has solved the challenge of creating a standardized diamond commodity. Transacted on the blockchain, it is the first physical and digital

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66:17

Sam Falic and Dov Falic, Founders of BlockBar

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2022/04/27

Dov FalicDov Falic, co-founder and CEO of BlockBar, Inc., was born in Miami, Florida and grew up in Panama City, Panama. As part of the next generation of the Falic Group, owners of the largest duty-free operation in the Western Hemisphere, Dov has been immersed in the luxury and retail industry from a young age. Having started in the warehouse ten years ago, Dov went on to serve as the Global Spirits Director and Executive Vice President of the LATAM division.In partnership with his cousin Samuel,

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76:34

Matthew Liu, Co-Founder of Origin Protocol

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2022/04/26

Matthew is the co-founder of Origin Protocol, a blockchain project founded in 2017. Origin’s mission is to bring NFTs and DeFi to mainstream audiences.Matthew is a serial entrepreneur and has founded several companies previously. He served as co-founder of PriceSlash (acquired by BillShark) and as co-founder and CEO of Unicycle Labs. Earlier in his career, Matthew was an early employee and one of the earliest Product Managers at YouTube (acquired by Google), leading multiple products on the

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58:54

Alex Vilhena, CEO of Plug Pagamentos

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2022/04/22

Alex is co-founder and CEO of Plug Pagamentos, a LatAm payments platform. For the past 12-years, he's worked with startups around the globe — living in cities such as San Francisco, New York, London, and Madrid. Previous to starting Plug, Alex managed southern Europe for Braintree — a PayPal company, where he saw his best clients attempting integrating multiple PSPs. When not talking about payments or LatAm startups, Alex can be found surfing or training jiu-jitsu.Learn more about your ad

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68:13

Will Rush, CEO & Founder at Stack

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2022/04/15

Over the past twelve years, Will has worked with seven different billion-dollar banking and securities companies. During that time, he witnessed long-time industry incumbents lose market share to FinTech unicorns, as products democratized access to financial markets and minted millions of new investors overnight.Will felt that the industry had prioritized access over education, and in the process failed to appropriately equip new investors with the knowledge to succeed. Will built Stack to teach the

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66:34

Chris Tse, Founding Director of Cardstack

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2022/04/14

Chris is a technologist and designer focused on improving the usability of decentralized applications, with the aim of making Web3 available for the masses. In 2014, he founded Cardstack, where he leads a team of open-source contributors to build the collaborative OS for Web3. He previously built the first NFT platform on the Bitcoin blockchain. He also pioneered the use of distributed-ledger technology to create media registries. Chris has more than a decade of experience leading R&D and

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66:32

Phil Ingram, CEO of Lepricon

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2022/04/11

Chief marketing officer of blockchain gaming company Lepricon. Phil has over 30 years of experience across a variety of industries including video games and blockchain. Originally from London, he was worked in the UK, USA and Hong Kong for organisations as diverse as Cable & Wireless to his own start up web development agency which he hold to a publicly traded US corporation. His specialities are strategic marketing, operations, process management, people and performance management, strategic

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