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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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58:10

Bryan Gross, Steward of ICHI

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2022/09/22

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Bryan Gross who is the Steward at ICHI, a DAO which designs protocols that help other crypto projects to participate in DeFi more efficiently. ICHI’s core technology enables other crypto projects to create new, more sustainable liquidity programs called Vaults. ICHI works with leading DeFi projects including ShapeShift, Fuse and 1INCH. Prior to working with the ICHI DAO, Bryan led blockchain projects at IBM. He was also previously a manager at Amazon and led

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65:47

Hany Rashwan, Co-founder and CEO of 21Shares & Amun

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2022/09/21

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Hany Rashwan the Co-founder and CEO of 21Shares and Amun. He is a serial entrepreneur and Forbes 30 Under 30 alum. He previously founded social commerce company, Ribbon, and enterprise fintech company, Payout. Hany was born and raised in Egypt and the United States and attended Columbia University.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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72:45

Elena Nadolinski and Craig Timm, CEO and General...

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2022/09/19

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Elena Nadolinski, CEO at Iron Fish and Craig Timm, General Counsel at Iron Fish, a layer-1 project building ZKP-based privacy for many assets across many chains. Elena was previously an avid hackathoner and software engineer at Airbnb and Microsoft.Craig Timm is General Counsel at Iron Fish. Iron Fish is building a Layer 1 blockchain to become the universal privacy layer for all of Web3. Prior to joining Iron Fish, Craig was an AML executive at Bank of

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90:26

Locke Brown, CEO and Founder at NuID.io

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2022/09/16

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Locke Brown, CEO and founder at NuID, who believes that the future of the internet belongs to the user, and NuID’s decentralized identity architecture was designed to support that future. Locke's passion has always been pursuing greater efficiency in a society's most elemental interaction: exchange. It's what drove him headfirst into mining Bitcoin in 2013, and to join the trading desk at Bill Gates' private investment office, BMGI, in

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66:47

Sandi Bitenc, CEO of 3air

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2022/09/15

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Sandi Bitenc, CEO of 3air, the world's first blockchain platform that enables individuals and businesses to thrive on Web3 by providing broadband internet connectivity. Sandi is a serial entrepreneur and a computer geek. His professional computer career started already in his teens when he was part of a hosting and domain registrar startup company that went to become the biggest in the Adriatic area and branched to software development and a

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52:05

John Lunn, Founder and CEO of Gr4vy

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2022/09/14

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with John Lunn, the Founder and CEO of cloud payment orchestration platform Gr4vy. He is a technology and fintech entrepreneur with 21 years of experience working and investing in financial services, commerce enablement, e-payments, data, security, and infrastructure. In 2006, John joined PayPal as the fourth employee in the UK (now over 2,000), where he built and grew PayPal’s first Developer Relations team. John was part of the team that launched PayPal

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48:59

Bruce Pon, Founder at Ocean Protocol

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2022/09/13

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Bruce Pon the Founder of Ocean Protocol, a blockchain startup focused on bringing data and AI together since 2013. Previously, Bruce co-founded Avantalion, a consulting firm that helped to build 20 banks around the globe for companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi & Jaguar LandRover. He has an Advanced Executive Certificate from MIT Sloan, a B.Sc in Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, and has given guest lectures at Oxford,

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64:11

Adam Dell, CEO of Domain Money

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2022/09/12

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Adam Dell, CEO of Domain Money. Adam is a serial entrepreneur, most recently a partner at Goldman Sachs where he served as Head of Product at Marcus by Goldman Sachs. There he built foundational products like Marcus Invest, Marcus Checking, and the market-leading mobile application Marcus Insights. Prior to Goldman, Adam founded four companies, including Clarity Money, acquired by Goldman Sachs (GS); MessageOne, acquired by Dell (DELL), Buzzsaw, acquired by

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59:46

Nick Baum, Co-Founder and CEO of Tremendous

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2022/09/09

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Nick Baum who is a Co-founder and the CEO at Tremendous. He started Tremendous in 2010, turning it from a small gift card company into a service used by millions around the world. He's responsible for the overall direction of the company.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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52:45

Domagoj Rozic, CEO of Minka

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2022/09/08

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Domagoj Rozic, CEO of Minka, an open network that enables organizations to move money in real time. He is a technologist that had the chance to participate in the internet, the mobile, and the bitcoin revolution over the last 20 years. Dom co-founded his first startup at the age of 20 and worked on then more than 50 IT projects in 10 countries around the globe. Built the Latam presence for the first Croatian Unicorn, Infobip, and founded Minka in 2018. He is

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62:23

Caleb Avery, CEO & Founder of Tilled

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2022/09/07

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Caleb Avery, CEO & Founder of Tilled. With experience in the payments industry for over a decade, Caleb Avery was often asked to help software companies who were looking to monetize their payments. Unable to find a solution that didn’t require his clients to compromise on either technology, user experience, or economics, he decided that he needed his own solution.That led him to build Tilled and create PayFac-as-a-Service.Caleb first started working in

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59:22

Matt Medved, Co-Founder & CEO of nft now

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2022/09/06

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Matt Medved, the co-founder, CEO and EIC of nft now, the premier web3 digital media platform for NFT coverage and curation. Under his leadership, nft now has become the most trusted source in NFT media and made history as the first-ever digital media publication to curate a major auction house sale with Christie’s.Prior to nft now, Medved founded Billboard Dance and scaled the vertical into the leading dance/electronic music publication in North America. He

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55:21

James West, CEO of Globe

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2022/09/05

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews James West, the CEO of Globe, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange. James is a technologist, digital assets pioneer, and former trader and investor. He led the quantitative team at a hedge fund for four years, growing it from a small family fund to $300m assets under management with incredible risk-adjusted returns. He earned his Ph.D. just across from DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, and his research has now generated nearly 1,000 citations. He studied algebraic

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53:35

Merit Valdsalu, CEO and Co-Founder of Single.Earth

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2022/09/02

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Merit Valdsalu, CEO and Co-Founder of Single.Earth, building a nature-backed economy to save the world. She’s an early employee at the unicorn company Pipedrive, a passionate environmentalist, and an avid equal rights supporter.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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63:14

Rand Hindi, CEO of Zama

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2022/09/01

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Rand Hindi, CEO at Zama, a startup building homomorphic encryption solutions for web2 and web3 applications. Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and investor. Prior to Zama, Rand was the CEO of Snips, an AI company acquired by Sonos. He is an investor in over 50 startups, ranging from blockchain to semiconductors to psychedelics. He holds a degree in computer science and a PhD in bioinformatics from UCL in London. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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54:13

Sean Bennett, Co-founder and CTO of Stronghold

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2022/08/31

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Sean Bennett, co-founder of Stronghold, a leading financial infrastructure company that provides fast, secure, and accessible financial services through a simple API. Stronghold, recently named as Forbes Fintech 50 company, works with businesses like IBM and Lyft to make payments quicker and easier while maintaining regulatory compliance and interoperability between payment systems. Sean is a renowned technology expert in the digital currency space, having

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59:24

Oleg Fomenko, Co-Founder at Sweatcoin

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2022/08/31

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Oleg Fomenko, Co-Founder of Sweatcoin, a virtual currency rewarding physical activity. Oleg is a serial entrepreneur who has launched a number of successful businesses, including a music subscription service that grew to 1.3 million registered users. Oleg played a key role in defining Sweatcoin as a health currency, driven by his extensive experience and knowledge of the behavioral change. Oleg believes that technology can positively impact a user’s health

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56:02

Edul Patel, CEO and Co-Founder of Mudrex

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2022/08/30

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Edul Patel who is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mudrex, the smartest way to invest in Crypto. Edul comes with over a decade of experience in finance, entrepreneurship, and building tech-driven applications. Prior to Mudrex, Edul was the Co-Founder of Niffler and served as Product Head of Tapzo.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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51:58

Tom Tirman, CEO of PARSIQ

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2022/08/26

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Tom Tirman the CEO of PARSIQ, a high-speed data solutions powering the backends of dApps & protocols. Tom has extensive experience in business and finance, having worked in both traditional banking institutions and fintech companies as well as being an entrepreneur. Tom holds a law degree from TalTech University. As a co-founder of blockchain companies PARSIQ and IQ Labs, he focuses his business on bringing disruptive next-gen technologies to the

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52:54

Brooker Belcourt, CEO of Covey

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2022/08/25

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Brooker Belcourt, CEO of Covey, an investment community open to all, powered by the smartest analysts in the world. Brooker is a former Hedge Fund analyst at Citadel, Coatue, and a Tiger Cub. He is also an avid investor, building a place to track his ideas, share them and learn from others.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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