Christian (Chris) Duffus is the Founder and CEO of Fonbnk. Fonbnk is a US based company that allows people in Africa and other emerging markets to use prepaid mobile SIM cards to obtain cryptocurrency assets by exchanging their mobile credits, thus providing a borderless banking infrastructure.

In this podcast we talk about:

• Chris’ journey from immigrant to investment banker to startup founder
• How Fonbnk became what it is today
• How mobile networks and SIMs work in many developing countries
• How Fonbnk uses cryptocurrency and why
• Chris’ strategy for choosing or quitting anything

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Mario Peng is a co-founder and CEO of PropertyScout. PropertyScout is a platform that reinvents the rental and purchase of residential properties for tenants and owners in Thailand by using tech, AI, and their own property consultants to remove hassles involved in the real estate process. During the COVID19 pandemic, PropertyScout has grown to be the market leader in home rentals in Bangkok.

In this podcast we talk about:

• Mario’s journey into his second start-up, Property Scout
• The business landscape in Thailand
• How Property Scout navigated through the COVID19 pandemic
• Why Property Scout has not automated the human part of their business
• How Property Scout ensures quality data to go through their AI
• The role that insurance plays in the business
• Lessons that Mario took from his first start-up that he implemented in Property Scout
• Issues that occur on the management level

Property Scout is hiring across the board including property consultants and software developers. You can email them at info@propertyscout.co.th

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Nik Talreja is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sydecar, a platform for a new generation of investors that automates banking, compliance, contracts and reporting to remove the cost and complexity of the traditional VC back-office operations.

In this podcast we talk about:

• Nik’s journey from lawyer to start-up founder
• The nonsense that keeps a fund manager from actually being a fund manager
• Why Nik went from planning on bootstrapping the business to changing his mind and raising money from investors
• What are the terms in a standard SPV that get negotiated that are the most worthless?
• The benefits of choosing Delaware as a jurisdiction
• Where the trend of democratizing fundraising and capital deployment is going
• How web 3.0 will evolve through this current murky regulatory landscape
• Lessons Nik learned selling gemstones as a child

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