Money Never Sleeps
A weekly podcast that looks inside the minds of entrepreneurs and at the crossover of startups, enterprise, finance, technology and life as we know it. Co-hosts Pete Townsend and Eoin Fitzgerald.
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Here are some great episodes to start with if you're new to the podcast!
199: Money Talks #57: FTX WTF | Musk Monetizing Twitter | UK Tech Nat…
This week, Eoin and Pete take the inevitable plunge into what to make of the FTX mess and then resurface with some of the scenari…
193: Express Yourself | Amor Sexton, Blockdaemon and Web3 infrastruct…
Amor Sexton is Head of International Operations for Blockdaemon, the leading independent blockchain node infrastructure to stake,…
177: What’s the Scenario? | Launchpool Web3 Techstars Accelerator Cla…
What a week! Techstars kicked off the Launchpool Web3 Techstars Accelerator this week in Dublin and they’re already moving at a b…
175: My Philosophy | Nik Milanović, This Week in Fintech and The Fint…
Nik Milanović is the founder of This Week in Fintech, a global digest of fintech news, and General Partner at The Fintech Fund, a…
172: Step Into the Realm | Matthew Larby and Realm
Matthew Larby is the founder and CEO of Realm, a blockchain metaverse ecosystem where you can create and explore your own play to…
171: Money Talks #47 | Crypto Visa | Ireland's Latest Unicorn: Wayfly…
Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend are back with the first Money Talks segment of 2022 with a big bump in consumers spending crypt…
169: Tim Bos | ShareRing, Building in Web3 and the Sharing Economy
Joining the show this week is Tim Bos, founder and CEO of ShareRing, a blockchain-based company that's focused on changing the la…
168: Money Talks #46 | What a Year | Eoin and Pete's Top Stories of 2…
Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend are back with their last Money Talks segment of the year with their review of their top stories…
166: Joey Krug | Pantera Capital, Being Early in Crypto and Shipping …
Joey Krug is the Co-Chief Investment Officer of Pantera Capital, the first institutional investment firm focused exclusively on b…
165: Matthew Graham | Sino Global Capital, Web3 and Making Your Hobby…
Matthew Graham is the CEO of Sino Global Capital, who are providing strategic investment to best-in-class companies that are movi…
163: Go! | Teana Baker-Taylor, Digital Assets and the Chamber of Digi…
Teana Baker-Taylor is the Chief Policy Officer of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the longest established trade body representin…
160: Freedom v2 | Colm Lyon’s Journey through Payments and Fintech
Referring to Colm Lyon as an Irish fintech ‘O.G.’ is just the tip of the iceberg, as at the core, he’s an entrepreneur who’s buil…
131: Wings | Fiona Edwards Murphy and ApisProtect
Fiona Edwards Murphy, co-founder and CEO of ApisProtect, shares her story on channeling her technology expertise into a passion f…
130: All the Things You’re Searching For | Barry Darmody and Search4L…
Barry Darmody, founder and CEO of Search4Less and ENKI, shares his story on the life experiences that were the catalysts for him …
113: Find Ya' Wealth | Elisabeth Dana and Infinity Circle
Elisabeth Dana from Infinity Circle joins the show to talk about how a career in wealth management inspired her to start all over…
100: Money Talks #22: Challenges of the Challengers and Top 10 Episod…
For the 100th episode of MoneyNeverSleeps, Eoin and Pete dive into their favorite topic – the challenges of challenger banks – an…
098: Loyal to the Soil: Faye Walsh Drouillard and WakeUpCapital
Faye Walsh Drouillard from WakeUp Capital joins the show to talk about how her formative years and life experience drove her towa…
096: The Trilogy: Elaine Deehan, Starling Bank and EWPN
Elaine Deehan is back on the show with Pete Townsend to talk about "the trilogy" of her earlier career as the perfect foundation …
094: Natural Born Starter: Gene Murphy and Startup Boost
Gene Murphy, co-founder of Startup Boost joins our first video edition of the podcast to talk about his earliest entreprenurial e…
068: Money Talks #6 | The Seed 2.0 | Pete Townsend on Seed Investing
"Pete Townsend goes solo" would have been a better headline in the '70's, but our Pete takes the mic in this episode to unpack th…
067: Startup Insights #2: The Unexpected
In this special segment, we feature four founders sharing how they dealt with one thing they didn't expect to face as a founder -…
Recent Episodes
199: Money Talks #57: FTX WTF | Musk Monetizing Twitter | UK Tech Nation Revolts | Big Tech vs. Irish Startups
Nov. 18, 2022
This week, Eoin and Pete take the inevitable plunge into what to make of the FTX mess and then resurface with some of the scenarios unfolding on what Elon Musk has in mind for the 250 million daily active users of Twitter. …
198: MoneyTalks #56: Techstars Web3 | FTX Rant | Block’s Flywheel | Fintech+Crypto Apps HoF | Apple vs. NFTs & Reddit
Nov. 11, 2022
This week, Pete gives some insight into the new Techstars Web3 accelerator and goes on a quick rant on FTX before he and Eoin riff on Block’s flywheel and their ambitions with Cash App, then they go through a hall-of-fame li…
197: Connected for Life | Ollie Walsh, Pipit & Konect | Live from Web Summit
Nov. 4, 2022
Ollie Walsh is the co-founder and CEO of Pipit, who are bringing to market the new Konect network that is powering international cash transactions with DeFi and enabling migrants to support their families back home cheaper, …
196: Forever | Nigel Verdon and Railsr
Oct. 28, 2022
Nigel Verdon is the CEO and co-founder of Railsr (formerly Railsbank) and is a 3x fintech founder and ‘Finance 4 Good’ evangelist focused on building great ideas - first with Evolution (exited to BAE Systems), followed by Cu…
195: All Eyez on Me | Web3 in Hollywood with Alex Amartei and Antara
Oct. 21, 2022
Alex Amartei is an Irish entrepreneur originally from Shannon and is also an investor, film writer, and producer. He recently won the Hollywood Icon award and the Monaco Streaming Film Festival Award alongside James Cameron …
194: MoneyTalks #55: FTX and Visa | Google Cloud Goes Crypto | Mumsnet and Community Fintech | Public Fintech Utilities | Meta’s Metaverse Mess
Oct. 14, 2022
This week, Eoin and Pete riff on crypto exchange FTX’s partnership with Visa enabling users to spend crypto anywhere Visa is accepted, Google Cloud enabling customers to pay in crypto in partnership with Coinbase, the state …
193: Express Yourself | Amor Sexton, Blockdaemon and Web3 infrastructure
Oct. 7, 2022
Amor Sexton is Head of International Operations for Blockdaemon, the leading independent blockchain node infrastructure to stake, scale, and deploy nodes with institutional-grade security and monitoring. Amor is an experienc…
192: MoneyTalks #54 | Crypto Regs vs. Crypto Failures l Sam Bankman-Fried to the Rescue | Walmart in the Metaverse | Goldman Goes Mobile
Sept. 30, 2022
This week, Eoin and Pete riff on crypto asset service provider regulation through the lens of Revolut, the trifecta of crypto market failures in Voyager, Celsius and Terra, how Walmart’s metaverse play with Roblox feels like…
191: MoneyTalks #53 | Ethereum Post-Merge l Revolut Pay Later Trial | a16z Funds Sequence and Sardine | Bored Yachts
Sept. 23, 2022
Eoin and Pete talk through the aftermath of the Ethereum Merge, some pandas and goofy songs, an early-morning Bankless livestream of the Merge, and critically, a 99% more energy-efficient blockchain. We also look at the new …
190: Sky’s the Limit: Owen O’Driscoll and PlanDail
Sept. 16, 2022
Founder and CEO of PlanDail, Owen O’Driscoll, riffs with Pete Townsend on PlanDail’s mission to build Europe’s premier cross-border, seamless, regulated crowdfunding platform, powered by carbon-neutral Algorand technology. P…
189: Money Talks #52: Metaverse Infrastructure | ETH Merge | Wayflyer Flying | Alloy’s Big Round | Bradley Tusk & DAOs
Sept. 9, 2022
Eoin and Pete dive into the shortcomings of Metaverse graphics through the lens of Metaverse deep-thinker Matthew Ball and his new book on the Metaverse, what’s up with the Ethereum Merge, the big fundraisings of Irish unico…
188: Money Talks #51 | Revolut on Tour | Starling Flies | Vitalik on the Metaverse | Crypto Regulation & Talent | Umba’s Big Deal
Aug. 5, 2022
This week, Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend riff on Pete’s trip to the US last month with the sheer ridiculousness of the 8 different combinations of point-of-sale authorizations he experienced with a single Revolut card, S…
187: Money Talks #50 | Techstars Demo Day Recap | Building the Bear | EU’s MiCA | Web3 as Embedded Finance
July 8, 2022
This week, Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend recap Techstars’ first-ever demo day in Dublin as part of the Launchpool Web3 Techstars Accelerator, look at crypto winter with FTX, BlockFi and Voyager, Klarna’s down round, Revo…
186: Money Maker | Eczodex | Bridging TradFi to DeFi | Michael Quartey and Lukas Bruell
June 17, 2022
Michael Quartey and Lukas Bruell, founder and co-founder of Eczodex, join the show this week to riff on how Eczodex are enabling investors to unlock more returns with traditional investments through DeFi (decentralized finan…
185: Diamonds Dancing | Your Diamonds | Tim Goodman
June 10, 2022
Tim Goodman is the founder and CEO of Your Diamonds, an ecosystem enabling the diamond industry to solve old-world problems through digital technologies and Web3.
184: In da Club | Staxe | Luis Martinez and Martin Liebrich
June 3, 2022
Luis Martinez and Martin Liebrich are the co-founders of Staxe. Staxe is enabling music and creative production economies on web3 so that anyone can become an owner of music and creative productions, support their favorite a…
183: Award Tour | MegaFans | Jeff Donnelley and Colin Bracey
May 27, 2022
Jeff Donnelley and Colin Bracey are the co-founders of MegaFans, a mobile esports platform and community bridging web2 to web3 in a play-to-earn environment for gamers, collectors and developers.
182: Hate It Or Love It | LiveDuel | Will Martin & Laura Brkic
May 20, 2022
On the show this week, we’ve got Will Martin and Laura Brkić from LiveDuel, a DeFi-powered digital sports market with live fan engagement. LiveDuel supports decentralized sports betting built on blockchain to give you a fair…
181: Friends | Securo Finance and DeFi with Victor Lee and Alvin Foo
May 13, 2022
On the show this week, we’ve got Victor and Lee and Alvin Foo, co-founders of Securo Finance (formerly DAOventures) who are building a compliant, secure and easy to use DeFi (decentralized finance) investment platform for re…
180: Reunited | Crowdclass with Filipe Pereira and Mario Frade
May 6, 2022
On the show this week we have Filipe Pereira and Mario Frade from Crowdclass, a web3 protocol for online education using the power of blockchain, tokenization, composability and the metaverse to create new monetization model…
179: Drop It Like It's Hot | BigFan | Eugene O’Brien and Kurt Pittman
April 29, 2022
Eugene O’Brien and Kurt Pittman from Ireland-based BigFan join Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend on the show this week. BigFan is reinventing sports collectibles through officially licensed NFTs that provide access to Metave…
178: Get it Together | Carla Rosenkranz and Barterchain
April 15, 2022
Carla Rosenkranz, founder of Barterchain, riffs with Pete Townsend about how the Barterchain idea is rooted in her own experience of exchanging English lessons for yoga classes, the core of her conviction to start building B…
177: What’s the Scenario? | Launchpool Web3 Techstars Accelerator Class of 2022
April 8, 2022
What a week! Techstars kicked off the Launchpool Web3 Techstars Accelerator this week in Dublin and they’re already moving at a breakneck pace. With that, we’re taking the opportunity to introduce our MoneyNeverSleeps commun…
176: Money Talks #49 | Ramp Goes Up | JPM Go West | Going Ape with Yuga Labs
March 25, 2022
This week, Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend return from a 2-week hiatus and look at what’s driving Ramp forward so quickly with their $8bn valuation, the JP Morgan deal for western Ireland-based fintech Global Shares, and t…
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