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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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58:46

Aaron Kaplan, Co-CEO of Prometheum

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2021/03/17

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Aaron Kaplan, the founder and co-CEO of Prometheum, Inc., a NYC based fintech company building a Federal Securities Law compliant, blockchain native, public market infrastructure servicing the entire digital asset lifecycle. Aaron is also of counsel at Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum, where since 2013 he has focused his practice on the applications of distributed ledger technology in the securities industry.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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32:24

Chad Liu, Co-Founder of Tidal Finance

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2021/03/16

In this episode, Min Kim speaks with Chad Liu, Co-Founder of Tidal Finance. Chad is a Wharton MBA grad who has spent his time prior to founding Tidal Finance as an investment associate at AU21 Capital, a leading DeFi fund. Previous to that, Chad served in Business Development and Engineering functions at top Oil & Energy companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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58:00

Andreas Fletcher , Project Manager of the Trustlines...

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2021/03/15

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Andreas Fletcher. Andreas is a project manager of the Trustlines Network at Brainbot. He has a background in finance and has been in the Blockchain Space since 2013. After supporting the development of the enterprise blockchain solutions for the biggest stock exchange in Europe, including pilot projects with the German Central bank, he decided to join the more revolutionary space of Ethereum.In 2018, Andreas joined Brainbot, a blockchain development studio

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47:17

Kenny Li, COO of Manta Network

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2021/03/05

In this episode, Min Kim interviews Kenny Li, the COO and co-founder of Manta Network. Manta network is the plug-and-play privacy protocol for the entire DeFi stack. Kenny is a serial entrepreneur with a decade of experience in scaling startups. He started mining Bitcoin in 2013, and has worked on crypto projects. He received his MBA from MIT Sloan, and was a teaching assistant for several blockchain courses. We are super excited to have him on our show!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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56:38

Kory Hoang, Founder of Stably

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2021/03/04

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Kory Hoang, Founder of Stably. Prior to founding Stably, Kory was a Private Equity Data Analyst for PitchBook in Seattle. Kory is also a quant who has consulted for money managers, hedge funds and CTAs on many subjects ranging from VIX derivatives to cryptocurrencies and algorithmic trading.Kory holds a BBA with a double major in Finance and Marketing from the University of Washington – Bothell.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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49:59

Zack Seward, Managing Editor at CoinDesk

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2021/02/26

In this episode, our co-host, Min Kim speaks with Zack Seward, managing editor in charge of CoinDesk's business desk. Previously, Zack was the editor-in-chief of Technical.ly, a network focused on local tech communities on the U.S. East Coast. Prior to that, Seward worked as a reporter covering business and technology for a pair of NPR member stations, WHYY in Philadelphia and WXXI in Rochester, New York.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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53:02

Peter N. Ackerson, General Partner at FinVC

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2021/02/26

In this episode, Kinsa Durst interviews Peter N. Anderson. Peter is a General Partner at FinVC, where he is responsible for sourcing investments and adding operating value at the portfolio company level. Prior to FinVC, he was CFO and Partner at SymphonyAI, a $1 billion early-stage investment and incubation platform, where he held investing, operating, and board member roles in several AI technology companies across the Finance, Healthcare, Infrastructure, and Media verticals. Peter has also worked

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38:22

Charlie Delingpole, CEO ComplyAdvantage

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2021/02/25

In this episode, our co-host Kinsa Durst speaks with Charlie Delingpole, Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charlie leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processes around money laundering are.Tune in to find out how Charlie got into the niche of compliance, AML and

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47:27

Ugochukwu Aronu, CEO of Xend Finance

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2021/02/22

Ugochukwu Aronu is CEO of Xend Finance and he was one of the first blockchain meetup organizers in his region of Nigeria. He created a widely used ERC20 and BTC wallet used by exchanges and launched Xend Finance as one of the first Binance Smart Chain projects, backed by Binance Labs and Google Launchpad.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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38:05

Ally Medina, CEO of Paloma Pay

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2021/02/22

Ally Medina is the former Mayor of Emeryville and Director of the Blockchain Advocacy Coalition. She has used her regulatory expertise to develop a compliant solution for cannabis businesses to use crypto for contactless payments and launched Paloma Pay in January of 2021.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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50:33

George Gvazava, CEO of CryptX Wallet

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2021/02/14

George Gvazava brings diverse finance expertise from his roles at Deloitte, Galt & Taggart (the largest investment bank in Georgia), and, as the CFO at Brokers.IO, a group of fintech companies. Most recently, he became a CEO of CryptX, an easy-to-use Crypto Wallet with institutional grade security. George also loves sharing his knowledge and experience with the next generation and is a Visiting Lecturer at several universities in Georgia and France. He is also an ACCA member and a CFA Level III

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44:53

Tegan Kline, Founder of Edge & Node (prev. The Graph)

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2021/02/14

Tegan Kline is the founder of Edge & Node. Previously she was business lead for The Graph, an indexing and query protocol organising the world’s open blockchain data and making open data a public good. Tegan helps leaders and innovators connect more deeply with stakeholders across the blockchain ecosystem.Tegan Kline is the former International Business Development Manager and OXT Relations Lead for Orchid, an A16z and Sequoia backed blockchain company that created tools and protocols for users

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43:41

Denko Mancheski, Founder and CEO of Reef Finance

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2021/01/18

Today we interview Denko Mancheski, founder and CEO of Reef Finance (reef.finance). Denko has been in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry for around 6 years as a developer - working with many notable technologies including NXT blockchain, Bitshares, Steem as well as EOS. He now runs Reef Finance, a hub for Decentralized Finance running on Polkadot. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter.DeFi Code

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56:54

Geoff McCabe - CEO of The Divi Project

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2020/12/28

Today we interview Geoff McCabe (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffmccabe) - CEO of The Divi Project (diviproject.org). He also owns businesses in virtual reality, gaming, two hotels, and a blockchain-based media company, LightingWorks.ioSponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter.DeFi Code www.defi-code.comGo-to-market agency for cryptocurrency companies. Make your project stand out and gain maximum impact in the industry.Learn

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37:01

Dov Marmor, COO of Railsbank in North America

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2020/12/24

Today we interview Dov Marmor, COO, Railsbank N. America. Dov led two of the top FinTech platform businesses in banking and international payments. Formerly GM and Head of BaaS at Green Dot, Dov grew that business 3X over 2.5 years, launching enterprise programs including Intuit TurboCard, Uber Debit/Money, Stash Banking, Wealthfront Debit, and many others. Prior to that, he launched the US business of Currencycloud, building over 20 new programs and expanding the teams and operational processes for

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51:28

Albert Saniger, Founder and CEO at Nate

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2020/12/16

Albert Saniger is the founder and CEO at nate. An experienced coder at a young age, Albert worked through school by teaching students to code – some going on to win national competitions under his guidance. While expanding his knowledge of computing systems, these early teaching experiences also inspired an interest in furthering human potential and empowering personal achievements.After getting his MBA at London Business School and working at Amazon, Albert set out to explore how intelligent

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56:20

Prashant Fluoria, CEO of Fundbox

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2020/11/18

Kinsa Durst interviews Prashant Fuloria, CEO of Fundbox. Prashant became CEO of Fundbox in 2020, after serving as COO and CPO. He joined Fundbox in 2016 from Yahoo, where he was SVP of Advertising Products. Prashant came to Yahoo through the acquisition of Flurry, then the world’s largest mobile analytics platform, where he was CPO. Before Flurry, he was Senior Product Director at Facebook, responsible for advertising products and monetizing the Facebook platform. Prior to that, Prashant was an

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28:37

Ray Youssef, CEO and Co-founder of Paxful

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2020/11/09

In this episode, Faisal Khan gets a chance to sit down with Ray Youssef, CEO, and Co-founder of Paxful to learn how he got started with the idea of Paxful and what his company is doing to eliminate "financial apartheid" as he calls it.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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38:54

Clay Wilkes, CEO of Galileo FT

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2020/10/18

In this episode Faisal Khan interviews Clay Wilkes, who is the founder and CEO of Galileo Financial Technologies. Galileo FT is a company that has been around for 20 years and is pretty much the go to company for the world most innovative fintechs. Galileo offers, what I would call a super API, one unified API that connects to it all and offers all sort of banking solutions including regulatory coverage in multiple markets.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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68:16

John Colthart, SVP Sales at MindBridge

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2020/10/15

Kinsa Durst interviews John Colthart. John has made clients successful in every major market worldwide during his 17-year career in technology leading world-class sales and professional services organizations. This started after his departure as a corporate finance and accounting practitioner in 2000 so he could grow a startup to +425 employees and exit to IBM with a role of VP Sales Operations in 2010. During his stay at IBM, John held global roles running sales enablement, offering management and

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