RUNWAY SERIES : Everyday Finance, Rewired.

Olive Capital (hosted by Raph Grieco)
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Runway Series, by Olive Capital (https://olivecapital.vc), explores since 2019 the same curiosity that has always shaped this show, the stuff changing underneath finance, product, and the way people build and finance tech innovation. The next generation of great consumer finance companies, the ones that could become the Revoluts of the next decade, are being built right now, during this shaky technological shift. We explore: invisible rails, the agentic economy, trustless privacy, and everyday money.

  1. [Rails Report #1] What "invisible rails" actually means for a consumer finance app builder

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    [Rails Report #1] What "invisible rails" actually means for a consumer finance app builder

    Today for "Rails Report #1", I want to unpack a phrase that gets used a lot, but still means different things depending on who you ask: "invisible rails". -- For a consumer app builder, invisible rails are the infrastructure layers that sit underneath the product experience and make everything feel effortless. The user does not need to think about settlement, custody, payments routing, identity checks, or reconciliation. They just open the app, move money, make a decision, or complete a workflow, and the system handles the complexity in the background. That matters because consumer products win when friction disappears. The best products do not ask people to understand the machinery. They make the machinery disappear. In finance, that has become even more important. The old stack was built around visible institutions, visible intermediaries, and very visible friction. The next stack is different. It is faster, more modular, more programmable, and increasingly embedded inside products that do not even look like financial services at first glance. For a builder, this changes the game in three ways: First, you can design for behavior instead of infrastructure constraints. You are no longer forced to make the user adapt to the back end.Second, you can move from one large product to many small actions. Payments, savings, investing, FX, identity, and settlement can all become moments inside a broader experience rather than separate destinations. Third, you can create trust without exposing complexity. The user does not need to see every rail to feel that the system is reliable, secure, and instant. That is what invisible rails really mean. Not just better technology, but a different product philosophy: hide the plumbing, improve the experience, and let the user focus on the outcome. If you build in consumer finance today, that is probably one of the biggest shifts to understand. -- The podcasts are authored, edited and produced by Raph Grieco (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠raphael-grieco.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠olivecapital.vc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠).

    2 min
  2. [Season 9] Everyday Finance, New Format, New Rails, New Frontiers

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    [Season 9] Everyday Finance, New Format, New Rails, New Frontiers

    Welcome back to “Runway Series”, the podcast produced by Olive Capital. I am still your host, Raph, and this season is a bit of an evolution. We’re still following the same curiosity that’s always shaped this show, the stuff changing underneath finance, product, and the way people build and finance tech innovation, but we’re packaging it in a more focused way. We’ll be exploring a few themes that feel especially important right now. One is invisible rails: the infrastructure quietly reshaping how money moves, settles, and flows through everyday products.Another is the agentic economy: what happens when software starts doing more of the work, not just helping us do it. We’ve already started exploring this theme last year.We’ll also look at trustless privacy, how people and companies can share less, protect more, and still move faster.And we’ll spend time on everyday money: the consumer fintech questions that matter most in practice, from how people manage their accounts to what makes a financial product actually stick. The idea is simple. Keep following the signals, keep talking to the people building the future, and keep making sense of what all of this means in real life. That’s what this season is about. The topics will intermingle for sure, this is an exploration, so we will see how this season unfolds. -- The podcasts are authored, edited and produced by Raph Grieco (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠raphael-grieco.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠olivecapital.vc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠).

    1 min
  3. [Farcaster Builders #3 - excerpt] Ahn.eth, building Quidli

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    [Farcaster Builders #3 - excerpt] Ahn.eth, building Quidli

    (this episode is an excerpt) --- Welcome to the third episode of our new series dedicated to the builders of the Farcaster ecosystem (⁠⁠⁠⁠https://farcaster.xyz⁠⁠⁠⁠). In this limited run, we are going to understand the strategies, timing, and mental models of the founders building the next generation of onchain experiences. In today's episode, we sit down with Ahn.eth (⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/ahn_going⁠ and ⁠https://farcaster.xyz/ahn.eth⁠), the founder of Quidli (⁠⁠⁠https://quid.li/⁠). We are looking at the plumbing of social finance with Ahn.eth (Justin), a founder who is tackling one of the most persistent points of friction in crypto: making value transfer as intuitive as sending a direct message. We discuss: + why your social graph might be your most valuable on-chain asset, + the structural limitations of current identity systems like ENS, and + how to build a 'Yellow Pages' for the decentralized web that works across Farcaster, Telegram, and email without locking users into a single platform. It is a very useful episode for understanding how portable social graphs can abstract away complex blockchain UX to enable seamless value transfer across any platform. -- The podcasts are authored, edited and produced by Raphael Grieco (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠raphael-grieco.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠olivecapital.vc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠).

    29 s
  4. [Farcaster Builders #3] Ahn.eth, building Quidli

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    [Farcaster Builders #3] Ahn.eth, building Quidli

    Welcome to the third episode of our new series dedicated to the builders of the Farcaster ecosystem (⁠⁠⁠https://farcaster.xyz⁠⁠⁠). In this limited run, we are going to understand the strategies, timing, and mental models of the founders building the next generation of onchain experiences. In today's episode, we sit down with Ahn.eth (⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/ahn_going and https://farcaster.xyz/ahn.eth), the founder of Quidli (⁠⁠https://quid.li/). We are looking at the plumbing of social finance with Ahn.eth (Justin), a founder who is tackling one of the most persistent points of friction in crypto: making value transfer as intuitive as sending a direct message. We discuss: + why your social graph might be your most valuable on-chain asset, + the structural limitations of current identity systems like ENS, and + how to build a 'Yellow Pages' for the decentralized web that works across Farcaster, Telegram, and email without locking users into a single platform. It is a very useful episode for understanding how portable social graphs can abstract away complex blockchain UX to enable seamless value transfer across any platform. -- The podcasts are authored, edited and produced by Raphael Grieco (⁠⁠⁠⁠raphael-grieco.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠olivecapital.vc⁠⁠⁠⁠).

    25 min
  5. [Farcaster Builders #2 - excerpt] Atown, building Emerge

    Bande-annonce de l’épisode 5, saison 8

    [Farcaster Builders #2 - excerpt] Atown, building Emerge

    (this episode is an excerpt) --- Welcome to the second episode of our new series dedicated to the builders of the Farcaster ecosystem (⁠⁠https://farcaster.xyz⁠⁠). In this limited run, we are going to understand the strategies, timing, and mental models of the founders building the next generation of onchain experiences. In today's episode, we sit down with Atown (⁠⁠https://x.com/AtownBrown⁠ and ⁠⁠https://farcaster.xyz/atown⁠⁠), the founder of Emerge (⁠https://www.tryemerge.xyz⁠). We explore how he is combining AI agents, diffusion models, and crypto rails to transform how users interact with generative content. The episode digs into: + the mechanics of viral growth onchain, + the challenge of escaping the 'crypto echo chamber,' and + the delicate balance between launching a token and building a sustainable product. It is a very useful episode about navigating the intersection of how to avoid AI slop with personalization, and web3 monetization. -- The podcasts are authored, edited and produced by Raphael Grieco (⁠⁠⁠raphael-grieco.com⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠olivecapital.vc⁠⁠⁠).

    1 min
  6. [Farcaster Builders #2] Atown, building Emerge

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    [Farcaster Builders #2] Atown, building Emerge

    Welcome to the second episode of our new series dedicated to the builders of the Farcaster ecosystem (⁠https://farcaster.xyz⁠). In this limited run, we are going to understand the strategies, timing, and mental models of the founders building the next generation of onchain experiences. In today's episode, we sit down with Atown (⁠https://x.com/AtownBrown and ⁠https://farcaster.xyz/atown⁠), the founder of Emerge (https://www.tryemerge.xyz). We explore how he is combining AI agents, diffusion models, and crypto rails to transform how users interact with generative content. The episode digs into: + the mechanics of viral growth onchain, + the challenge of escaping the 'crypto echo chamber,' and + the delicate balance between launching a token and building a sustainable product. It is a very useful episode about navigating the intersection of how to avoid AI slop with personalization, and web3 monetization. -- The podcasts are authored, edited and produced by Raphael Grieco (⁠⁠raphael-grieco.com⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠olivecapital.vc⁠⁠).

    21 min
  7. [Farcaster Builders #1 - excerpt] Kaloh, building Indexy

    Bande-annonce de l’épisode 3, saison 8

    [Farcaster Builders #1 - excerpt] Kaloh, building Indexy

    - (this episode is an excerpt) - Welcome to the first episode of our new series dedicated to the builders of the Farcaster ecosystem (⁠https://farcaster.xyz⁠). In this limited run, we are going to understand the strategies, timing, and mental models of the founders building the next generation of onchain experiences. In today's episode, we sit down with Kaloh (⁠https://x.com/Kaloh_xyz⁠ and ⁠https://farcaster.xyz/kaloh⁠), the founder of Indexy (⁠https://indexy.xyz/⁠). We explore the convergence of traditional finance with onchain assets and ask the following questions: + is now the right time to bring indexing to crypto? + how to distinguish between genuine product feedback and token-speculation noise? + how does a data-native founder bridge the gap between onchain analytics and mass adoption? It is an episode about maturing the market, from simple speculation to modern portfolio management. -- The podcasts are authored, edited and produced by Raphael Grieco (⁠⁠raphael-grieco.com⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠olivecapital.vc⁠⁠).

    1 min
  8. [Farcaster Builders #1] Kaloh, building Indexy

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    [Farcaster Builders #1] Kaloh, building Indexy

    Welcome to the first episode of our new series dedicated to the builders of the Farcaster ecosystem (https://farcaster.xyz). In this limited run, we are going to understand the strategies, timing, and mental models of the founders building the next generation of onchain experiences. In today's episode, we sit down with Kaloh (https://x.com/Kaloh_xyz and https://farcaster.xyz/kaloh), the founder of Indexy (https://indexy.xyz/). We explore the convergence of traditional finance with onchain assets and ask the following questions: + is now the right time to bring indexing to crypto? + how to distinguish between genuine product feedback and token-speculation noise? + how does a data-native founder bridge the gap between onchain analytics and mass adoption? It is an episode about maturing the market, from simple speculation to modern portfolio management. -- The podcasts are authored, edited and produced by Raphael Grieco (⁠raphael-grieco.com⁠ | ⁠olivecapital.vc⁠).

    20 min
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Runway Series, by Olive Capital (https://olivecapital.vc), explores since 2019 the same curiosity that has always shaped this show, the stuff changing underneath finance, product, and the way people build and finance tech innovation. The next generation of great consumer finance companies, the ones that could become the Revoluts of the next decade, are being built right now, during this shaky technological shift. We explore: invisible rails, the agentic economy, trustless privacy, and everyday money.

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  • Création
    Olive Capital (hosted by Raph Grieco)
  • Années d’activité
    2019 - 2026
  • Épisodes
    126
  • Classification
    Tous publics
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    © Olive Capital (hosted by Raph Grieco)
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    RUNWAY SERIES : Everyday Finance, Rewired.