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The Curious LearnersAfrica’s Energy Shift: The Rise of Distributed Power | The Curious Learners Ep. 47Welcome back to The Curious Learners. In this episode, my AI co-hosts look at how distributed energy is reshaping electricity access across Africa, using insights from my latest post on The Curious Learners (see here).Distributed energy is a necessity in Africa, not a choice. It provides access to hundreds of millions of people who still lack electricity. That makes it different from developed markets, where distributed power is often a nice to have. It is used for saving costs or earning revenue, but not as the primary means of access.Despite being the sunniest...
2025-12-0112 minThe Curious LearnersInfrastructure at the Heart: Why the Energy Transition Is a Delivery and Business Model Challenge. Not Tech. | The Curious Learners Ep. 46🎧 New Podcast Episode: Infrastructure at the Heart — Why the Energy Transition Is a Delivery and Business Model ChallengeWe often hear that clean technologies like solar, wind, and batteries are the key to decarbonisation. But the real challenge isn’t about technological breakthroughs. It’s about delivery, getting projects permitted, financed, built, and connected to systems that weren’t designed for this kind of transformation.In this episode of The Curious Learners, I explore why infrastructure, not innovation, is the critical bottleneck in the energy transition. Narrated by my AI co-hosts, the episode unpacks:
2025-06-2012 minThe Curious LearnersBeyond Disruption: The Rise of the Quiet Builders | The Curious Learners Ep. 45In this episode of The Curious Learners, we take a step back from the noise of disruption and zoom in on something more subtle - but just as transformative: the quiet reinvention of the real economy.Across manufacturing floors, supply chains, family businesses, and financial institutions, a less glamorous but more enduring form of innovation is underway. It’s not about tearing industries down; it’s about modernizing them from within.We explore how small and mid-sized - often overlooked in the venture or policy spotlight - are integrating AI, reshoring supply chains, transitioning to low...
2025-05-2011 minThe Curious LearnersResilience in the Age of AI: Transforming Heavy Industry, Energy, and Infrastructure | The Curious Learners Ep. 44In the latest episode of The Curious Learners, my AI co-hosts and I explore a theme that’s become central to my investing journey: resilience.Not just in the narrow sense of withstanding shocks — but in a broader, more dynamic sense: how our energy systems, industrial processes, and infrastructure can become more adaptive, more efficient, and more climate-aligned in the face of growing uncertainty.And there’s one technology that’s quietly showing up everywhere: Artificial Intelligence.From steel mills optimizing scrap recipes to ports cutting idle time with smarter...
2025-04-1720 minThe Curious Learners⚡ Distributed Energy Resources: Powering a Flexible Future | The Curious Learners Ep. 43Today, my AI co-hosts are exploring the major shifts reshaping the energy landscape: digitalisation, decentralisation, and decarbonisation. Here is the blog post that I published on The Curious Learners.As demand grows and renewables like solar and wind rise, the aging grid faces immense pressure. The solution? A decentralised grid with local energy generation, storage, and demand management, all driven by flexibility.We'll dive into Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), the building blocks of this new system, and how their adoption varies across developed and developing markets. Plus, we'll tackle the challenges to widespread DER adoption...
2025-04-0815 minThe Curious LearnersThe Power of Real-Time Monitoring: Building Resilience in Critical SectorsWelcome to another episode of The Curious Learners. I again turn to my AI co-hosts who continue to do great job talking about my posts on The Curious Learners.Today we're exploring a critical landscape where efficiency meets innovation: the world of IT and Operational Technology integration.Imagine a manufacturing plant suddenly grinding to a halt, or a power grid plunging entire cities into darkness. These aren't just hypothetical scenarios—they're real risks in our increasingly connected digital ecosystem.In this episode, my co-hosts unpack how real-time monitoring is transforming industries, preventing costly di...
2025-02-0623 minThe Curious LearnersBridging the Funding Chasm for Climate CompaniesSystem companies? What does that even mean! My AI Co-hosts in this latest episode of The Curious Learners do a great job in discussing the funding environment for system companies, i.e. the integration of hardware and software companies.So, what are system companies?System companies integrate hardware (tangible components) and software (intangible solutions). One example that comes to mind is battery storage systems, where the hardware stores energy, and battery management software (BMS) optimizes operations. System companies combine these elements to drive efficiency and scalability, making them essential for achieving net-zero...
2024-11-1818 minThe Curious LearnersElectricity Grid Needs a Massive Upgrade (Special Episode)Join me for an extra special episode on The Curious Learners! It was created using Google's NotebookLM AI tool and my blog post on The Curious Learners (link here)!Today, we're diving into a critical but often overlooked aspect of our path to net zero: the electricity grid. We’ve all heard that electrification is key to decarbonizing industries like transportation and buildings, but what often goes unmentioned is that none of this can happen without a robust transmission network.In today’s episode, we’ll explore why the transmission grid is the ultimate bottleneck in acc...
2024-10-1012 minThe Curious LearnersMert Mumtaz | Building for Builders | The Curious Learners Ep. 39Hi everyone. My guest today is Mert Mumtaz. He is the co-founder and CEO at Helius, which is a developer platform for the Blockchain ecosystem. Mert is not new to crypto. Prior to starting Helius, he spent years at Coinbase building different products across payments and others. Helius currently supports the Solana ecosystem and Mert has been a big supporter of the ecosystem since its early days.Mert and I had a fascinating discussion about the state of Blockchain, Solana vs. other networks, upcoming L1 ecosystems and of course his plans for Helius. Below are some highlights...
2023-03-1338 minThe Curious LearnersAmos Wittenberg | Assessing Risks in Climate Transition | The Curious Learners Ep. 38Hi everyone. My guest at The Curious Learners is Amos Wittenberg. He is the co-founder of Dovetail. Amos and his co-founder Phillip Marks are building the climate risk modelling toolkit for investors. Dovetail helps to identify and quantify risks and opportunities in the era of climate transition.What Dovetail is building is critical for institutional investors' workflows, investment strategies and decision making. And it goes beyond climate-tech investors of course. Take Oil and Gas as an example. Investors need to take into account the exposure of Oil and Gas companies to stranded assets, to climate-related taxes and...
2023-03-0530 minThe Curious LearnersYurii Kyparus | Cashback & MEV Service in Crypto | The Curious Learners Ep. 37Hi everyone. My guest at The Curious Learners is Yurii Kyparus. He is the co-founder of Wallchain, which is a start-up that addresses the issue of MEV (miner extracted value) in crypto. MEV refers to value extracted from crypto transactions. Wallchain captures this value and returns it back to users.Here are some of the topics that we discussed on the episode:- MEV as a problem and opportunity in crypto- MEV across different chains- Wallchain versus its peers in terms of technology and business model...
2023-01-3130 minThe Curious LearnersSebastian Manhart | Carbon Removal: Where Technology Should Meet Policy | The Curious Learners Ep. 36Hi everyone. My guest today is Sebastian Manhart. He is the senior policy adviser at Carbonfuture, which is a technology company building an operating system for high quality carbon removals.Sebastian has a super interesting background of over a decade of entrepreneurship and an advisory role with the German government on decentralized identity. His move into climate-tech and more specifically carbon removals is a result of his passion for this space.Sebastian and I had an eye-opening conversation on how governments view frontier technologies, state of the play for carbon removal policy globally, range of...
2023-01-1834 minThe Curious LearnersPeter Grosskopf | Building in Crypto Winter | The Curious Learners Ep. 35Super excited to have Peter Grosskopf on the first episode of the second season. Peter is the co-founder and CTO of Ultimate Money (core product of Unstoppable Finance), which is one of the most exciting DeFi products out there. His background is unique coming into crypto from a combination of software development and fintech building / operating and incubating. Peter and I had a great conversation about what happened in crypto in 2022, future of DeFi and where Ultimate Money is positioned in that future.What is a good summary of 2022?It was a special year. D...
2023-01-1242 minThe Curious LearnersJames West | Building the Future of Crypto Exchange | The Curious Learners Ep. 34Hi everyone. My guest today is James West. He is the CEO of Globe, which is a crypto futures exchange. James and I agreed to talk about building a crypto exchange a while back and we kept rescheduling since then. Finally, by coincidence, we happened to record the episode on the day FTX filed for bankruptcy!We talked about James' take on what really happened at FTX , its impact on confidence in crypto markets and of course what he is building at Globe.Here are some highlights from the show.- What did...
2022-11-1934 minThe Curious LearnersChris Perkins | Crypto: Where are We Headed? | The Curious Learners Ep. 33My guest today is Chris Perkins. He is the President of CoinFund, which is a crypto-native investment firm founded in 2015. Chris joined CoinFund in 2021 after spending a long time in traditional finance. He was most recently a managing director at CitiGroup.His experience in traditional finance is very relevant from the perspective of crypto's future as an industry. Chris was deeply involved at the time in the transition of the traditional finance derivatives industry from unregulated to regulated. That transition is now top of mind for the crypto industry. I have previously discussed with other g...
2022-10-1137 minThe Curious LearnersKevin Zhang | FX in Decentralized Finance | The Curious Learners Ep. 32Hi everyone. My guest is Kevin Zhang. He is the co-founder of DFX Finance, a decentralized exchange protocol specifically for stablecoins. Kevin has been in crypto for a long time and his journey into building DFX Finance is not a coincidence. Following his time at Consensys, he went on to build Paytrie, which is a stablecoin exchange based in Canada. In fact, it was this experience that made him see the need for a decentralized exchange designed for stablecoins.Here are some highlights from our discussion on this episode:Why is stablecoin a killer p...
2022-09-1533 minThe Curious LearnersJoshua Frank | Building the Data Layer for Crypto | The Curious Learners Ep. 31My guest today is Joshua Frank. He is the co-founder and CEO of The Tie, an information services provider for digital assets. Josh and I met some time ago at a crypto conference and I was truly amazed with The Tie product demo back then. On-chain data is usually accessible, however it is never easy to parse it given the different data structures across chains. In addition, converting data to signals and market intelligence for investors' use requires a lot more processing and a deep understanding of the market.Josh and I discussed a lot...
2022-08-3041 minThe Curious LearnersLubomila Jordanova | Enabling Journey to Sustainability | The Curious Learners Ep. 30Hi everyone. My guest for the 30th episode of The Curious Learners is Lubomila Jordanova. She is the founder of Plan A, which is a climate-tech company working with businesses and top institutions around the world to help with their sustainability journeys.Prior to starting Plan A, Lubomila had substantial experience in financial services as an investment banker and as a VC investor. She describes her path to Plan A as one with serendipity. However, after seeing her passion for what she does, I have a strong conviction that sooner or later she would have started Plan...
2022-08-1931 minThe Curious LearnersEvgeny Gokhberg | Building a DeFi Power User | The Curious Learners Ep. 29My guest today is Evgeny Gokhberg. He is the founder and managing partner of Re7 Capital, which is an investment firm focused on DeFi strategies.Evgeny is not only an investor in DeFi, but also a deep thinker about the technology behind it, the future of crypto and how traditional finance and DeFi would work together to build a whole new financial world.Our conversation touched upon (of course) his entry into crypto, the current state of markets, his firm Re7 Capital and the future of DeFi. Here are some highlights from the episode:
2022-08-0838 minThe Curious LearnersWill Robinson | Accelerating Web3 | The Curious Learners Ep. 28Hi everyone. My guest today is Will Robinson from Alliance DAO. He is the head of Community at Alliance, where he helps web3 founders build amazing companies. Will was in gaming until his move into crypto in 2017 with the help of a healthy! dose of push from his cousin Dan Robinson. In fact, he is the only person that I know with a PhD in game design.Will and I had an eye-opening discussion (for me of course) on his journey from gaming to Blockchain, knowledge accumulation in crypto and the mission of Alliance:
2022-07-2946 minThe Curious LearnersMounir Benchemled | Facilitating Decentralized Finance | The Curious Learners Ep. 27Hi everyone. My guest today is Mounir Benchemled. He is the founder of Paraswap, which is one of the leading DEX aggregators in crypto markets.Mounir's entry into blockchain dates back to 2013 and he had a front seat to the development of crypto markets since then, first as a user and then builder of DeFi (and this is before it was called DeFi). He is in the camp of founders, who have been frustrated with existing products and decided to build something new.Mounir and I had a deep dive discussion into the premise of...
2022-07-1338 minThe Curious LearnersPaul Hsu | Metaverse as the Immersive Internet | The Curious Learners Ep. 26My guest today is Paul Hsu. He is the founder of Decasonic, a crypto native VC fund. Paul's background and his thesis at Decasonic put him in a unique position to help entrepreneurs ride the next wave of innovation in Blockchain.Our wide-ranging conversation covers the history of innovation in social world, biggest catalysts for mass adoption of web3 and the future of new social world that we are in. It was fascinating to hear Paul's wonderful insights with the hindsight of significant experience from his career. Here are some highlights from the show:
2022-07-0329 minThe Curious LearnersUlric Musset | Facilitating Private Market Investing | The Curious Learners Ep. 25My guest today is Ulric Musset. He is the co-founder of Vauban, which is a technology platform that facilitates private market investing.He and his co-founder Remy Astie have worked on many other projects prior to Vauban, including the very unique idea of a French bakery in London! Luckily for us as investors, they landed on Vauban.Below are some key highlights from our very interesting discussion:- What was critical in the Vauban journey so far? --> It is timing. When started in 2018, a lot of VCs thought the market is too...
2022-06-2731 minThe Curious LearnersSam Peurifoy | Web3 Gaming | The Curious Learners Ep. 24My guest today is my good friend Sam Peurifoy. He is the Head of Interactive for Hivemind Capital Partners and the founder of Playground Labs. The gaming community knows him as Das Kapitalist!Sam is my go-to person when it comes to deep discussions on gaming and web3. It was again a very insightful conversation with him. Here are some highlights from the episode:- Why Das Kapitalist? --> Emerged from the idea of capitalism meeting gaming and also a pseudonym was needed for game streaming (details in the episode:)).- How did a...
2022-06-1237 minThe Curious LearnersJosh Benaron | Scaling Web 3.0 Storage | The Curious Learners Ep. 23My guest today is Josh Benaron. He is the founder and CEO of Bundlr, which is an essential scaling solution for the decentralized storage network Arweave.His story from learning to code on his own to building Bundlr at a time when Arweave would hit network capacity is fascinating!Josh and I had a great conversation about everything decentralized storage and more: - Introduction to Blockchain: Youtube videos for new technologies- Bundlr one-liner: network that bridges web 2.0 and web 3.0 storage- Bundlr working principle: more secure version of...
2022-05-2727 minThe Curious LearnersShanti Bergel | Play, Build and Invest | The Curious Learners Ep. 22My guest is Shanti Bergel. He is a gaming industry veteran with significant experience as an operator and founder. He is now one of the founding partners of Transcend Fund, which is a VC fund for the gaming and digital entertainment space.It was fantastic to hear Shanti's deep insights on the industry and his experience with several transformations that have unfolded in this space. Of course, we also talked about the future of web 3.0 and gaming:- There are multiple tailwinds that drive the current transformation - Web 3.0 has the ability to i...
2022-05-1330 minThe Curious LearnersScott Stornetta | No, He is not Satoshi | The Curious Learners Ep. 21I don't know if you do, but I don't get to speak to inventors of Blockchain very often.Scott Stornetta is the co-author of three out of eight works referenced in the original Bitcoin whitepaper. Initially, Scott's strong view on the need to create immutable records led him to work with cryptographer Stuart Haber and together invent the very first Blockchain.My conversation with Scott was eye-opening on the original idea behind Blockchain, social and technological developments leading to Bitcoin and today's world of web 3.0:- Transformation from a theoretical physicist to Blockchain i...
2022-04-2239 minThe Curious LearnersHasib Malik | Motivation of Improving Outcomes for Entrepreneurs | The Curious Learners Ep. 20My guest today is Hasib Malik. He is the co-founder of Creditbook, which is a technology company that empowers merchants and MSMEs in Pakistan.Creditbook was built on the back of a deep market research that identified the biggest pain points for MSMEs in the country.Hasib and I had an insightful conversation about the potential of Pakistan, what MSMEs need the most and Creditbook's current offerings and its roadmap to address them. Please see below a few key discussion points.- There is significant opportunity in Pakistan as access to financial services i...
2022-04-1645 minThe Curious LearnersFederico Travella | Financing SMEs | The Curious Learners Ep. 19My guest at The Curious Learners is Federico Travella. As a venture builder, he has been involved in the foundation of very successful start-ups in South East Asia (e.g. Lazada).He then went ahead and started his own company, Novicap, which is an end-to-end financing provider for SMEs.Federico and I had a great conversation about financing SMEs, inefficiency in the market and the opportunity to unlock financial inclusion. Some of the specifics that we discussed are below:- Opportunity in fintech lending --> Inefficiency of incumbent banks and their non-functioning unit...
2022-04-0132 minThe Curious LearnersGokul Rajaram | Building, Operating and Investing | The Curious Learners Ep. 18My guest today is Gokul Rajaram. It is hard to find someone who has been as successful in all three of building, operating and investing.He is known as the 'Godfather of Adsense', having built the foundation of Google's advertising business. He then exited his start-up to Facebook and had an amazing career at Facebook, Square and now at Doordash.He is also an investor supporting entrepreneurs globally. He sits on the boards of exceptional companies.Gokul and I had a deep conversation on product, team and company building, investing and of course B...
2022-03-1742 minThe Curious LearnersSupriyo Roy | Community-Centricity in NFTs | The Curious Learners Ep. 17My guest today is Supriyo Roy. He is the co-founder of Hyy.pe, which is a community-centric content platform for NFTs.NFT market continues to grow at a significant pace in trading volumes. And in parallel we continue to search for the next big thing in NFTs, be it new content or evolving business models.Supriyo and I had a rich conversation on a full agenda and touched on many interesting topics.A few specific notes are listed below:Â - NFTs represent a way of expressing your tribe- C...
2022-03-1141 minThe Curious LearnersWinston Robson | Data Analytics for the Metaverse | The Curious Learners Ep. 16My guest today is Winston Robson. He is the co-founder of WeMeta, where he and his team are building the data layer for the Metaverse.Winston and I had a great conversation. Below are a few interesting topics that we discussed:- Should we call it Metaverse or Multiverse?- Data is key to "build" and "transact" on the Metaverse- How to interpret on-chain and off-chain data together- Key data point to watch out: How long does an average person stay? - Games to unlock mass adoption (see FTX's r...
2022-02-2733 minThe Curious LearnersFrancesco Filia | Investing in TradFi & DeFi | The Curious Learners Ep. 15For anyone interested in a masterclass in investing in financial services (TradFi & DeFi), here is one delivered by Francesco Filia on The Curious Learners. Francesco is the founder and CIO of Fasanara Capital, which is an alternative investment firm.Francesco and his team have been investing in public and private markets for longer than a decade. He describes his team as a group of 'gentle scientists' and he prefers experimentation over experience. Francesco and I had a fascinating discussion on the show and talked about highly interesting topics including:- the current status o...
2022-02-1745 minThe Curious LearnersCalvin Luk | NFT Marketplace as a Service | The Curious Learners Ep. 14My guest today is Calvin Luk from Refinable. It is a decentralised NFT marketplace operating across multiple layer-1 chains.Calvin and I discussed the future of NFT marketplaces, where white-label technology solutions might be more favourable for brands, creators and project owners.Also discussed the following interesting topics:- Difference in customer adoption between Asia and Western markets- Gaming ecosystem as a key partner for higher utility from NFTs- How partnerships with Web 2.0 brands increase value proposition for both sides- Shopify model for future of commerce in...
2022-02-1127 minThe Curious LearnersMark Studholme | Content Layer for Metaverse | The Curious Learners Ep. 13I continue to go down the rabbit hole of Web 3.0. My guest is Mark Studholme. He is the founder of Metamundo, which is a marketplace of 3D NFTs and digital assets for metaverse.It is a gateway for the use of artists and creators to build the metaverse.Mark and I discussed all things metaverse. Select topics are listed below:• Difference between 2D and 3D assets and the need for a new platform for 3D• Critical building blocks of an open metaverse• Mass adoption of metaverse (observations from scaling of games)•...
2022-02-0433 minThe Curious LearnersSimon Vans-Colina | Fintech in Web 3.0 | The Curious Learners Ep. 12My guest today is Simon Vans-Colina. He was in the founding team of Monzo and is now the CTO of Fronted.Simon has contributed to transformation of financial services during his time at Monzo and is now passionate about DeFi and Web 3.0. Hence, he was a perfect guest to talk about the new wave of transformation in fintech, i.e. convergence with Web 3.0. In fact, he set up TreeDAO, which is a decentralized autonomous organisation (DAO) that buys and protects woodlands.Some of the interesting topics that Simon and I talked about are listed below:
2022-01-3039 minThe Curious LearnersPatrick Hansen | Onboarding Billion Users to DeFi | The Curious Learners Ep. 11My guest today is Patrick Hansen. He is the Head of Strategy and Growth at Unstoppable Finance. It is a start-up with a mission of financial inclusion and making decentralised finance accessible to the mass market.Patrick and I talked about what it takes to onboard billion users in DeFi and what they are building at Unstoppable Finance to contribute to this goal. Some of the specific topics that we discussed are below:- Current challenges in DeFi- Response from regulators and policy-makers- CBDCs vs. privately-issued stable coins- Transformational...
2022-01-2336 minThe Curious LearnersAleksi Loytynoja | DAOs and Work in Web 3.0 | The Curious Learners Ep. 10My guest today is Aleksi Loytynoja. He is the co-founder of Kleoverse, a platform of work in web 3.0.Aleksi and his co-founders launched Kleoverse very recently. Their initial focus is on building the network of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and helping talent discover DAOs and engage with them.Aleksi and I started the episode with why 2022 would be the year of DAOs and talked about Kleoverse in detail and their product roadmap. Below are some of the specific topics that we discussed:- Operating model for a DAO- DAOs at its...
2022-01-1639 min
The Curious LearnersKaan Eryilmaz | DeFi | The Curious Learners Ep. 9My guest today is Kaan Eryilmaz. He is the founder of Tinyman, a decentralized trading protocol built on the Algorand blockchain. Kaan is also one of the co-founders of Hipo, where they built several successful fintech products.Kaan and I had a great conversation on all things DeFi and Tinyman. Here are some of the topics that we discussed:- How crypto turned into a real product for Kaan with the introduction of DeFi- The mechanics of a decentralized trading protocol - The spirit behind Tinyman to empower ordinary people and bring th...
2022-01-0836 min
NFT Heat#21: NFT Heat featuring Serhat Aydogdu, Founding Investor at D4 VenturesThis week we feature Serhat Aydogdu, founding investor at D4 Ventures and host of the Curious Learners podcast.Â
2022-01-0325 minThe Curious LearnersJustin Shenkarow and John Kraski | NFTs | The Curious Learners Ep. 8Happy New Year everyone!The Curious Learners is ending 2021 with a special episode on NFTs and web3 with two amazing guests Justin Shenkarow and John Kraski. They are the co-hosts of the wonderful podcast NFT Heat!Justin is an actor, voice actor, producer and Emmy and Golden Globe winner! He is passionate about NFTs. He started in the NFTs space as a collector and now works with brands, artists and athletes to formulate their NFT strategy.John is the director of strategic partnerships at NFT Genius and an NFT thought leader. He has...
2021-12-3142 minThe Curious LearnersSinan Koc | Stablecoins | The Curious Learners Ep. 7My guest today is Sinan Koc. He is a co-founder of BiLira, which is a stablecoin pegged to Turkish Lira. I truly enjoyed speaking with him. We discussed the following and many more interesting topics: - why do we need stablecoins? Now and in the future?- do stablecoins remain as a gateway between fiat and crypto? - is there a bifurcation for the use of stablecoins between emerging markets and developed markets?- what are the two most important KPIs for a stablecoin business?- how did he combine his...
2021-12-2536 minThe Curious LearnersKrishnan Menon | Building one-stop-Software for Merchants | The Curious Learners Ep. 6My guest today is Krishnan Menon. He is the co-founder and CEO of BukuKas.He is building BukuKas as a one-stop-software solution for merchants. His journey into building BukuKas was an outcome of his deep understanding of merchants' problems.Krishnan and I talked about initial company building, finding product market fit, and the early signals that tell founders when to scale up the business.We also discussed the framework of simplicity, differentiation, and value-add. And how he takes it into account in building the right solutions for merchants.As a second-time...
2021-12-1734 min
The Curious LearnersHugo Amsellem | Creator Economy | The Curious Learners Ep. 5My guest today is Hugo Amsellem. Hugo is one of the thought leaders that I look up to for the creator economy. He has been working with entrepreneurs, creators and artists for a long time and he was once a founder himself. He is now with Jellysmack as the VP, Community.Hugo and I talked about the current state of creator economy, the framework that he uses to help out creators and how he sees the creators as the first founders of our new internet world. Of course, we also discussed the transition from web 2.0 to web 3.0...
2021-12-1239 minThe Curious LearnersFeras Jalbout | The Curious Learners Ep. 4My guest for the fourth episode of The Curious Learners is Feras Jalbout. He is the founder of commission-free investing platform Baraka.Feras is on a mission to democratise access to investing and enable everyone to participate in markets.Among other things, Feras and I discussed the key pillars of building a customer-first investing platform, their focus on distribution quality research to their customers and his journey intro entrepreneurship.He also talked about how things are different when the product is live and when you start to hear from your customers.
2021-12-0137 minThe Curious LearnersGeri Cupi | The Curious Learners Ep. 3My guest for the third episode of The Curious Learners is Geri Cupi. He is a serial entrepreneur with a distinctive focus on circular economy. He also quietly built Monochain as one of the first businesses with an NFT utility in real world.He is now building Twig, which is the "Bank of Things". It is a continuum of circular economy with innovative fintech products.Geri and I talked about company building and scaling including early days of product building, finding product market fit, growth and of course the team.In his words...
2021-11-2632 minThe Curious LearnersNikita Fadeev | The Curious Learners Ep. 2My guest for the second episode of The Curious Learners was Nikita Fadeev. He is a Partner and Head of Fasanara Digital, which is a quantitative investment fund in crypto assets. It is part of Fasanara Capital, which is an alternative asset management firm founded in 2011.Nikita developed a strong interest in crypto in 2017 when he was at college studying mathematics. Since then, he has been learning about and investing in crypto.Nikita and I discussed lots on this episode including the origin of his curiousity into crypto, his investment strategy at Fasanara Digital and...
2021-11-1734 min
The Curious LearnersJovan Stojanovic | The Curious Learners Ep. 1I knew Jovan Stojanovic was going to be a perfect guest for the first episode of The Curious Learners.Jovan is the co-founder of Anari AI, an exciting artificial intelligence company, where they are building the AI hardware industry from scratch. He is also the founder of Wonderland AI Summit, a mission-driven community of AI experts, practitioners and enthusiasts.In his formative years, Jovan was curious to better understand human reasoning. That set out an obvious path for him into artificial intelligence.I had so much fun speaking to Jovan about his journey, hi...
2021-11-0834 min