39 episodes
The Curious Learners Serhat Aydogdu
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I feel privileged to speak to so many great minds as part of my job. They are passionate builders, insightful investors, laser-focused leaders. They are all curious learners in their own way. It is their urge to learn more. That urge is curiosity. When I speak to these people, I hear fascinating ideas, solid business plans, genius growth hacking practices, relentless team building focus, unique investing strategies and many others. However, most of the time, key insights, business intelligence and inspiring stories shared in these conversations do not make their way to the outside world. The Curious Learners is an attempt to share the stories of those curious learners with those, who might find the inspiration that they were looking for or those who might get the encouragement for their own journey that they already started. Looking forward to a long journey together.
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Mert Mumtaz | Building for Builders | The Curious Learners Ep. 39
Hi 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, ...
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Amos Wittenberg | Assessing Risks in Climate Transition | The Curious Learners Ep. 38
Hi 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 ex...
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Yurii Kyparus | Cashback & MEV Service in Crypto | The Curious Learners Ep. 37
Hi 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 busine...
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Sebastian Manhart | Carbon Removal: Where Technology Should Meet Policy | The Curious Learners Ep. 36
Hi 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 convers...
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Peter Grosskopf | Building in Crypto Winter | The Curious Learners Ep. 35
Super 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 positio...
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James West | Building the Future of Crypto Exchange | The Curious Learners Ep. 34
Hi 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.- W...