219: Footprints | Deb Pratiher and Quest Labs
May 19, 2023

219: Footprints | Deb Pratiher and Quest Labs

Deb Pratiher is the co-founder and CEO of Quest Labs, building infrastructure enabling organizations to leverage data in a privacy-preserving manner to unlock powerful user experiences.

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202: Clarisse Hagege, Dfns and Protecting Your Crypto Assets
Dec. 16, 2022

202: Clarisse Hagege, Dfns and Protecting Your Crypto Assets

Clarisse Hagege, founder and CEO of Dfns, joins the show this week recorded recently as part of the Techstars Web3 Community Series events organized by the Techstars Web3 Accelerator. Dfns is a cybersecurity company providing wallet infrastructure for web3. From …

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200: It Takes Two | Pete and Eoin’s Top 10 from the Last One Hundred Episodes
Dec. 2, 2022

200: It Takes Two | Pete and Eoin’s Top 10 from the Last One Hundred …

Holy Mackenzie, we just hit 200 episodes! When Eoin Fitzgerald said to Pete Townsend in early 2018, “Hey Pete, I heard you on a couple of podcasts, wanna help me start one?” never in our wildest dreams did we think …

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199: Money Talks #57: FTX WTF | Musk Monetizing Twitter | UK Tech Nation Revolts | Big Tech vs. Irish Startups
Nov. 18, 2022

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 scenarios unfolding on what Elon Musk has in mind for the 250 million daily active users …

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198: MoneyTalks #56: Techstars Web3 | FTX Rant | Block’s Flywheel | Fintech+Crypto Apps HoF | Apple vs. NFTs & Reddit
Nov. 11, 2022

198: MoneyTalks #56: Techstars Web3 | FTX Rant | Block’s Flywheel | F…

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 …

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197: Connected for Life | Ollie Walsh, Pipit & Konect | Live from Web Summit
Nov. 4, 2022

197: Connected for Life | Ollie Walsh, Pipit & Konect | Live from Web…

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, safer, and now faster.

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196: Forever | Nigel Verdon and Railsr
Oct. 28, 2022

196: Forever | Nigel Verdon and Railsr

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 Currency Cloud (exited …

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195: All Eyez on Me | Web3 in Hollywood with Alex Amartei and Antara
Oct. 21, 2022

195: All Eyez on Me | Web3 in Hollywood with Alex Amartei and Antara

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 and Mark Wahlberg. Alex is …

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194: MoneyTalks #55: FTX and Visa | Google Cloud Goes Crypto | Mumsnet and Community Fintech | Public Fintech Utilities | Meta’s Metaverse Mess
Oct. 14, 2022

194: MoneyTalks #55: FTX and Visa | Google Cloud Goes Crypto | Mumsne…

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 of ‘community fintech’ through …

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193: Express Yourself | Amor Sexton, Blockdaemon and Web3 infrastructure
Oct. 7, 2022

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, scale, and deploy nodes with institutional-grade security and monitoring. Amor is an experienced global leader with extensive commercial, legal and operational experience, and …

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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

192: MoneyTalks #54 | Crypto Regs vs. Crypto Failures l Sam Bankman-F…

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 the right platform vs. …

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191: MoneyTalks #53 | Ethereum Post-Merge l Revolut Pay Later Trial | a16z Funds Sequence and Sardine | Bored Yachts
Sept. 23, 2022

191: MoneyTalks #53 | Ethereum Post-Merge l Revolut Pay Later Trial |…

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 Revolut BNPL product live …

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190: Sky’s the Limit: Owen O’Driscoll and PlanDail
Sept. 16, 2022

190: Sky’s the Limit: Owen O’Driscoll and PlanDail

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. PlanDail’s aim is to connect high-impact focused entrepreneurs with ESG/impact investors of …

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189: Money Talks #52: Metaverse Infrastructure | ETH Merge | Wayflyer Flying | Alloy’s Big Round | Bradley Tusk & DAOs
Sept. 9, 2022

189: Money Talks #52: Metaverse Infrastructure | ETH Merge | Wayflyer…

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 unicorn Wayflyer and Techstars …

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188: Money Talks #51 | Revolut on Tour | Starling Flies | Vitalik on the Metaverse | Crypto Regulation & Talent | Umba’s Big Deal
Aug. 5, 2022

188: Money Talks #51 | Revolut on Tour | Starling Flies | Vitalik on …

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, Starling Bank’s re-prioritization of a …

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187: Money Talks #50 | Techstars Demo Day Recap | Building the Bear | EU’s MiCA | Web3 as Embedded Finance
July 8, 2022

187: Money Talks #50 | Techstars Demo Day Recap | Building the Bear |…

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, Revolut’s new card reader, Algorand bringing …

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186: Money Maker | Eczodex | Bridging TradFi to DeFi | Michael Quartey and Lukas Bruell
June 17, 2022

186: Money Maker | Eczodex | Bridging TradFi to DeFi | Michael Quarte…

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 finance).

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185: Diamonds Dancing | Your Diamonds | Tim Goodman
June 10, 2022

185: Diamonds Dancing | Your Diamonds | Tim Goodman

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.

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184: In da Club | Staxe | Luis Martinez and Martin Liebrich
June 3, 2022

184: In da Club | Staxe | Luis Martinez and Martin Liebrich

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 artists, and become a part …

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183: Award Tour | MegaFans | Jeff Donnelley and Colin Bracey
May 27, 2022

183: Award Tour | MegaFans | Jeff Donnelley and Colin Bracey

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.

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182: Hate It Or Love It | LiveDuel | Will Martin & Laura Brkic
May 20, 2022

182: Hate It Or Love It | LiveDuel | Will Martin & Laura Brkic

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 fairer deal than traditional sports …

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181: Friends | Securo Finance and DeFi with Victor Lee and Alvin Foo
May 13, 2022

181: Friends | Securo Finance and DeFi with Victor Lee and Alvin Foo

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 regular investors.

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180: Reunited | Crowdclass with Filipe Pereira and Mario Frade
May 6, 2022

180: Reunited | Crowdclass with Filipe Pereira and Mario Frade

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 models for online educators, and better …

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178: Get it Together | Carla Rosenkranz and Barterchain
April 15, 2022

178: Get it Together | Carla Rosenkranz and Barterchain

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 Barterchain, the network effects from …

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177: What’s the Scenario? | Launchpool Web3 Techstars Accelerator Class of 2022
April 8, 2022

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 breakneck pace. With that, we’re taking the opportunity to introduce our MoneyNeverSleeps community to the ten amazing founding teams …

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176: Money Talks #49 | Ramp Goes Up | JPM Go West | Going Ape with Yuga Labs
March 25, 2022

176: Money Talks #49 | Ramp Goes Up | JPM Go West | Going Ape with Yu…

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 the latest with ApeCoin, …

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175: My Philosophy | Nik Milanović, This Week in Fintech and The Fintech Fund
March 4, 2022

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, an early-stage venture capital fund. In this episode, Pete Townsend and Eoin Fitzgerald talk to Nik about …

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174: Money Talks #48 | SoFi So Far | Circle and Stablecoins | Crypto Ads | Apple Pay and Stripe
Feb. 25, 2022

174: Money Talks #48 | SoFi So Far | Circle and Stablecoins | Crypto …

Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend riff on what started out as a student lending platform in SoFi now becoming a full-service digital finance player, Circle’s new SPAC deal in the context of stablecoins, advertising and naming rights in crypto and …

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173: Mainstream | Adam Bialy, Fiat Republic and Bridging Banks and Crypto
Feb. 18, 2022

173: Mainstream | Adam Bialy, Fiat Republic and Bridging Banks and Cr…

Adam Bialy is the founder and CEO of Fiat Republic, the compliance-first, API-driven and highly secure and scalable bridge between banks and crypto. In this episode, Adam and Pete Townsend talk through the Fiat Republic vision, the current state of …

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172: Step Into the Realm | Matthew Larby and Realm
Feb. 11, 2022

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 earn microverse. In this episode, Matthew and I talk through how the Realm experience works, how to …

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171: Money Talks #47 | Crypto Visa | Ireland's Latest Unicorn: Wayflyer | UBS-Wealthfront | Walmart Fintech Doubledown
Feb. 4, 2022

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 crypto on Visa cards, the story of Ireland’s latest unicorn, Wayflyer, the UBS deal for Wealthfront, Walmart doubling …

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170: The Finsight Series | Beyond WealthTech
Jan. 20, 2022

170: The Finsight Series | Beyond WealthTech

This episode is from the second edition of the Finsight Series virtual event that Pete Townsend moderated recently hosted by Navirum and Salesforce. In this conversation, we’ve got an all-star cast with Rory Galvin from Navirum, Kerry Ryan from Salesforce, …

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169: Tim Bos | ShareRing, Building in Web3 and the Sharing Economy
Jan. 14, 2022

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 landscape of the fragmented sharing economy. In this chat, Tim and Pete Townsend talk through Tim’s crystal ball-like experiences …

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