

Around The Coin
Stephen Sargeant and Mike Townsend
Around The Coin is a podcast exploring finance, fintech, and the future of money. Hosted by industry experts, it features deep dives into payments, crypto, banking, and disruptive innovations shaping the global economy.
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Jun 24, 2022 • 1h 13min
Andrew Gazdecki, CEO at MicroAcquire
Andrew Gazdecki is a 4x founder with 3x exits, former CRO, and founder of MicroAcquire. Gazdecki has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, and Entrepreneur Magazine, as well as prominent industry blogs such as Axios, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 23, 2022 • 1h 16min
Sergej Kotliar, CEO of Bitrefill
Bitrefill is the largest store in the world for people to buy things with their coins.Bitrefill sells gift cards that let you shop at all the top e-commerce sites in 100 countries, and a few weeks ago Bitrefill announced availability of Bill Payments. Now you'll be able to pay your credit card bills, mortgage, utilities, even taxes with crypto.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 22, 2022 • 1h 26min
Monty Metzger, CEO of LCX.com
Monty Metzger is CEO and Founder at LCX, the Liechtenstein Cryptoassets ExchangeMonty is an internet veteran and serial entrepreneur - he found his first Internet company back in 1998. He studied at Universities in Switzerland and at Harvard Business School. Monty has been attending the famous World Economic Forum in Davos for more than 10 years and is actively involved in shaping crypto policies worldwide.Before launching LCX he was an active Venture Capitalist for many years. He was General Partner at a regulated VC firm - investing in technology companies in Silicon Valley and Europe. One of their portfolio companies Revue was acquired by Twitter for example.In his current role at LCX he is building the next crypto unicorn bridging the gap between the old financial world and the new blockchain industry. LCX is operating a regulated cryptocurrency exchange, a DEX aggregator, a compliant token launchpad and the leading NFT platform for real-world diamonds - all available at LCX.comPlease welcome Monty to the show.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 21, 2022 • 1h 18min
Roger Khoury, Founder and CEO of Market Forecasting Academy
Roger is the Founder and CEO of Market Forecasting Academy, a training and mentorship program for market participants looking for low risk, consistent, market-beating performance.He is most known for developing an innovative, industry-first methodology that eliminates the uncertainty, inconsistency and large drawdowns traditionally experienced in the financial markets.He calls it Demand Imbalance Arbitrage™, which is the only method guaranteed to consistently identify and take advantage of frequent, very low risk pockets of imbalance between demand and price . . . and profit from them 80-90% of the time.This enables new and experienced market participants to:* Confidently forecast what's going to happen next in any market or time-frame with 80-90% accuracy.* Identify 80-90% of the trade opportunities that look good and would normally be taken, but are in fact likely to struggle and fail, eliminating 80%-90% of what otherwise would turn into losing positions (so they can reliably avoid giving back important gains)Roger achieved financial independence 11 years ago using the method he developed.He never intended to teach this, but members of his community asked him to share his knowledge after realizing his method gave him a lot of free time to socialize and serve.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 20, 2022 • 1h 5min
Anji Ismail, CEO of Finnt
Anji is the co-founder and CEO of Finnt, a DeFi app built for families around the world. Prior to starting Finnt, Anji founded and ran DOZ.com, a Marketing SaaS during 8 years; and also built Varanida, a personal data wallet.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 20, 2022 • 1h 41min
Rafael Cosman, Co-Founder and CEO of TrustToken
Rafael Cosman is the CEO and a co-founder of TrustToken, developers of the decentralized lending protocol TrueFi.Prior to TrustToken, Rafael helped build StreetCode, a nonprofit that teaches East Palo Alto youth technical skills, and worked at Google Brain (Google’s AI research division), Palantir and Kernel.Rafael graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor’s degree in computer science. In his free time, you’ll find Rafael reading or meditating.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 16, 2022 • 1h 13min
Harsh Rajat, Founder of Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS)
Harsh Rajat is the Founder and Project Lead of Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS). He has over 11 years entrepreneurial experience in various spectrum of tech; including architecting, development and design in different tech fields (Mobile, Web Services, SaaS, Blockchain).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 15, 2022 • 1h 13min
Alex Shevchenko, CEO of Aurora Labs
Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, working in a blockchain since 2015Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 14, 2022 • 1h 4min
Ben Turner, President and CEO of Verituity
Ben is President and CEO of Verituity. He is an entrepreneur and senior executive with a proven track record of building unique digital products and businesses that address scalable challenges. He has extensive experience in P&L management, product management, customer experience, and data productization, and has served 25+ years as a technology executive across a variety of markets.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 13, 2022 • 1h 7min
Alf Gunnar Andersen, Founder and CEO of Horde and Bustad
Founder and CEO of Horde, Norway's most popular personal finance management app. He is a well-established figure in the Norwegian fintech community and a regular speaker on all things fintech. Alf Gunnar started Horde with a simple goal, to remove the unnecessary complexity inherent in personal finance management by connecting people with actionable data and insights and combining this with innovative financial solutions. Having built a solid foundation in Norway, the goal is to expand across Europe in the next few months.Alf Gunnar is also the founder of Bustad, an innovative blockchain project that he first started to formulate while studying for his master's degree. Bustad's mission is to help property owners access capital by converting a percentage of their property into a stable coin. The token is then made available for investors who wish to enter the lucrative and stable Norwegian property market.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices