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Andrew Hoag, Founder and CEO of Teampay Aug 10, 2022

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In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Andrew Hoag, Founder and CEO of Teampay, the first purchasing software built for modern, tech-enabled businesses. Prior to founding Teampay in 2016, Andrew Hoag founded or co-founded five companies, including urbantag, which tackled the trillion-dollar online-to-offline commerce market and was acquired in 2012. In addition to these entrepreneurial and leadership roles, he has served as an angel investor and advisor to various other companies, helping them raise venture capital and design product strategy. Before that, he held management roles in customer engineering, product management, internationalization, business development, and marketing at VeriSign. He has also connected and built supercomputers for NASA. Hoag loves to code; in fact, he created the first prototype of Teampay.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Pearl, Michael Pearl, COO of Kirobo Aug 09, 2022

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In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Michael Pearl, COO of Kirobo - the safety net for DeFi. Michael is a fintech and blockchain executive with over a decade of experience managing teams and projects. A qualified attorney and former content chief at both Finance Magnates and Natural Intelligence, Michael has driven client outreach, acquisition, and retention in the fields of trading, personal finance, online banking, and blockchain technology. Michael eats, sleeps, and breathes financial technology.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gabriel Gruber, Founder of Exactly Finance Aug 08, 2022

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In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Gabriel Gruber, Founder of Exactly Finance. Exactly is building an open source, non-custodial protocol on Ethereum, that will bring fixed-income solutions for lenders and borrowers. Prior to Exactly Finance, he was a Co-Founder and CEO of Properati (acquired by OLX Group). He ran the Real Estate Startup for five years, launched in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joel Lin, Contributor at CitaDAO Aug 05, 2022

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In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Joel Lin, Contributor at CitaDAO - a marketplace for tokenized Real Estate. Joel is a Real Estate industry veteran with more than 12 years in institutional real estate and structured over $2 billion of deals. He is determined to bridge the real estate world into web3.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Kruger, Founder & CEO of Moon Aug 04, 2022

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In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Ken Kruger, the founder and CEO of Moon, a crypto challenger bank and banking as a service platform. Prior to starting Moon, Ken ran a software consulting company that helped New York-based venture-backed startups build products. Previously he worked at Lockheed Martin as a software engineer and product manager on classified military projects. Ken has engineering degrees from Columbia University and Cornell University.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Messele, Co-Founder and CEO of Pillar Project Aug 03, 2022

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In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Michael Messele, a co-founder and CEO of Pillar Project, the leading open source, non-custodial, and community-owned crypto wallet that facilitates seamless access to markets, DEXs, and provides storage for crypto assets across multiple chains. The wallet is powered by Etherspot - Pillar Project’s native SDK. Michael is an experienced campaigner within the technology space of the Financial Services industry coupled with a previous start-up exposure, and he has devoted the last few years to leveraging innovations built on the decentralized economy. Michael has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sonny Alves Dias, CTO of Pixelmatic Aug 02, 2022

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In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Sonny Alves Dias, CTO of Pixelmatic, a video game studio currently developing the title “Infinite Fleet” published by Exordium Limited. Infinite Fleet is an MMO strategy game set in space where players take command of a fleet of spaceships and play in cooperation against an alien race controlled by AI. The game also has crypto elements such as a cryptocurrency powering player-to-player trades and NFTs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sergey Gorbunov, CEO and Co-Founder of Axelar Aug 01, 2022

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In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Sergey Gorbunov, CEO and Co-Founder of Axelar, delivers secure cross-chain communication for Web3. Sergey is an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo (2016 - present). He is interested in building cryptographic primitives, protocols, and systems that enable new applications in untrusted and distributed environments. He received a Ph.D. from MIT, where he was a Microsoft Ph.D. fellow and MSc and BSc from UToronto. His Ph.D. dissertation was on designing cryptographic tools for the cloud using lattice-based cryptography for which he received the Sprowls Doctoral Thesis Award for best thesis in CS at MIT. He was on the founding team of Algorand where he was involved in various business and technical aspects of the company and led the cryptography group. He also spent some time at IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justin Banon, Co-Founder & CEO at Boson Protocol Jul 28, 2022

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In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Justin Banon, co-founder and CEO of Boson Protocol, the decentralized network on which the future of commerce will run. Boson Protocol enables anyone to sell physical products in the metaverse as NFTs within the Decentraland space Boson Portal. He previously blitzscaled the Priority Pass Group to a $1Bn per annum revenue global rewards platform. With an academic background in physics, digital innovation and crypto, Justin applies first principles thinking to solve human problems with technology. By combining cool tech with deep tech, he imagines a future where commerce is open, fair, and equitable.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Cutler, CEO & Co-Founder of Blocknative Jul 28, 2022

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In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Matt Cutler, CEO and Co-Founder of Blocknative, the leading real-time infrastructure for monitoring pre-chain data, optimizing gas spend, and predicting transaction settlement. Matt has founded multiple technology startups, including Web analytics pioneer NetGenesis, which went public in 2000 at the height of the Web 1.0 boom. His most recent startup, the mobile collaboration platform Collaborate.com, was acquired by Cisco in 2013. Along the way, Matt has consistently made meaningful contributions to emerging technology ecosystems, including serving as chair of the first-ever Webmasters Guild, co-authoring the award-winning E-Metrics Whitepaper, championing AdWeek’s Viral Video Awards, establishing Cisco’s global Design Thinking initiative, and more.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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