Startups Episodes

Nov. 5, 2021

162: Money Talks #45 | Pete Townsend’s Irish Tech News Interview on D…

Suzanna Hayek from Irish Tech News interviews Pete Townsend on Pete Townsend on financial trends, digital finance and investing in startups. This interview was originally aired on Irish Tech News in early September, and they kindly gave us permission to …

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Oct. 22, 2021

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 built indigenous Irish businesses into international players. Currently the CEO and Founder of Fire.com, we walk …

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Oct. 7, 2021

158: 3 is the Magic Number | Laura Walsh, Launchpool and Techstars

Laura Walsh is the COO of Launchpool, a digital asset platform with a mantra of egalitarian investing in blockchain projects. In this episode, we talk through how Laura’s incredibly unique foundation as a teacher of English as a second language, …

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Sept. 17, 2021

155: Vision | Sophie Guibaud and OpenPayd

Sophie Guibaud is the Chief Growth Officer at OpenPayd and she’s spent the last 10 years designing and executing the go-to-market of banking-as-a-service (BaaS) and embedded finance propositions in Europe, building teams and operations from scratch, and integrating financial services …

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July 23, 2021

147: Money Talks #37: Revolut’s Big Raise | Square’s Crossover | Robi…

Eoin and Pete mine a motherlode of fintech hotspots this week starting with insights into Revolut’s latest $33bn valuation, Square’s quest for crossover between creators, crypto and small businesses, then we dive deep into the upcoming Robinhood IPO and our …

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June 11, 2021

141: Teamwork | Mark Boylan and Trustap

Mark Boylan, CFO at Trustap, joins the show this week to share his story about his leap out of Big 4 and into startup life, finding the right distribution channels to get Trustap into the end users’ hands, the benefit …

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June 4, 2021

140: Money Talks #34: Ireland’s Startup Ecosystem | Fintech in Africa…

In this Money Talks segment, we take a deeper look at the startup ecosystem on this island that we call home, then head south to Europe for a constructive look at the European Payments Initiative, and then head further south …

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May 14, 2021

137: Money Talks #33 | Crypto’s Mainstream Moments | Messin' Musk | M…

This is our latest Money Talks segment, where we get into the onslaught of crypto’s mainstream moments in the past two weeks featuring Elon Musk’s antics and Charlie Munger’s view on bitcoin, we dig into BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) …

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May 7, 2021

136: The Prediction II | Andrew Mullaney and Premind AI

This week we welcome back Andrew Mullaney, CTO of Premind AI, sharing his story on the last 2+ years of building Premind, streaming 57,000 stock prices into a million news stories a day, the impact of high-speed information flow on …

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April 23, 2021

134: Money Talks #32 | Coinbase Goes Public | Goldman Backs Starling …

We’re back with another Money Talks segment this week, and we get into the story of Coinbase going public and the cryptofication of fintech, Starling Bank’s big investment from Goldman Sachs, the credit-building appeal and 'rundle' potential of the latest …

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April 21, 2021

133: Bonus Episode | Ollie Walsh and the Pipit Global Crowdfunding Ca…

This is a special bonus episode welcoming back Ollie Walsh, co-founder and CEO of Pipit Global, a for-profit social impact fintech based in Galway here in Ireland. Ollie was on the show back in July 2019 in episode 52, and …

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April 16, 2021

132: Jump Around | Mike Cavanaugh and Regiment Alpha

Mike Cavanaugh, Managing Partner at Regiment Alpha, shares his story on lessons learned in the open outcry commodity trading pits, his multiple entrepreneurial ventures amidst a life in fintech, having things thrown at him for saying ‘blockchain’, advising and helping …

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April 9, 2021

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 for helping beekeepers, her transition from academia into the life of a startup founder, raising ApisProtect’s first round, building a customer …

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April 1, 2021

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 becoming a startup founder, getting the Search4Less product to market in the early days, keeping the faith through …

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March 26, 2021

129: Money Talks #31 | Stripe’s Double Irish | Revolut Does America |…

SOUND QUALITY WARNING: You know how Marc Andreessen said 'software is eating the world'? Well, software ate this episode, please excuse the underwater sound and we'll be back to normal next week! In this Money Talks segment, Pete and Eoin …

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