In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks to Alejandro Gutierrez, who is the CEO of Defactor. Alejandro has more than 20 years of experience in the supply chain management space and lately has been working in the Trade Tech space and Supply chain finance space. 

In 2019, Alejandro joined Consolfreight as co-founder, and in 2020, Consolfreight became one of the pioneers of the digitization and collateralization of Real-World Assets using De-Fi as the main source of funding for factoring and trade finance services. Within a year Alejandro became pivotal to close important partnerships with big hitters in the industry like Centrifuge and Maker and achieved $7.5M+ in transactions funded. Currently, he is the Co-founder and Operations Lead of the Defactor a project focused on bridging the gap between DeFi liquidity and real-world asset originators.

Alejandro Gutierrez, CEO of Defactor

In this episode, Mike Townsend interview Arjun Bhuptani, who is one of the founders of Connext, the interoperability protocol for L2 Ethereum. Connext enables moving value and calldata between EVM chains without introducing trust assumptions. It is also leveraged by infrastructure networks like the Graph for ultra-scalable microtransactions.

Arjun Bhuptani, Founder of Connext

This week was a collection of various topics ranging from Apple Pay's acceptance in the eyes of the Federal Government to Pinterest launching the "Buy Now" button. We ended with an interesting philosophical discussion on the evolution of money as well as potential social effects with recent wealth consolidation trends.

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Apply Pay wins over Fed Govt & philosophical debate on future of weath

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Episode 52

This week we covered a bunch of topics listed below:

Faisals periodic table study 
Federal portal opens Dwolla
 Samsung Acquires Loop to compete with Apple Pay
1 year review: Facebook + Whatsapp
Stripe's incorporation of Bitcoin

Our speakers in this week's episode:
Brian Roemmele
Faisal Khan
Mike Townsend

Resources:
Mind Map of Money
Monetary Velocity & John Exter’s Inverse Pyramid
Finextra news: Federal payments portal opens up to digital wallets from PayPal and Dwolla
Making Transactions with the Government More Secure
What’s Up with WhatsApp And Payments?
Samsung acquires Apple Pay competitor LoopPay
Four Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired...
Monetary Velocity & John Exter’s Inverse Pyramid

Periodic Table of Payments & Samsung's Attack on Apple Pay

This week Brian, with his inside connections at Apple, described what it was like to wear the Apple Watch for a full day and naturally we all made predictions about future impact of the watch and other wearables.  We then touched on Google acquiring Softcard, and lastly we talked about how Marketplace companies (Uber, HomeHero, Instacart etc) handle payments to workers and some of the recent legal changes to 1099 workers that have had a huge effect.

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Secret Apple watch data Released & How Marketplaces pay their workers

This week we talk about the recent acquisitions by PayPal and Samsung with perspectives on future strategies of these companies and shining light into the complex and fascinating world of payments.

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The Hidden Backstory to the PayPal and Samsung Acquisition

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Where Does Apple Watch Go From Here? Square Order, Balanced Both Shutdown

Interview with Tor Norretranders:

New book: Light! On light in life and the life in light 
Life in the early 80’s working in Danish broadcasting television
Inspiration for User Illusion - on being a 11 year old goalkeeper 
Covering Exformation 
Tough decisions on driverless cars
Is Singularity a reality, and when?
Benjamin Libet - ½ second delay, and when are we aware of a decision 
What is the future of science in consciousness?
Closing message to listeners

Relevant links:
User Illusion by Tor Norretranders, 1991 
Light! On light in life and the life in light by Tor Norretranders, 2015
A bandwidth for humans by Nigel Holmes

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Episode 87: Interview with Tor Nørretranders

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In this inaugural episode of AML AUDIO, host Stephen Brent Sargeant gives hints and tips on “how to get your foot in the door” and kick-start your AML career in New York City.  AML professional Amar Patel, Esq., has provided some insights that have been explained in detail.  Professionals in the New York area are provided with easy to implement ideas, in order for them to gain an advantage over other AML professionals.  Certifications and networking are being broken down, in order arm those struggling to get their “foot in the door”, with tools for success.

AML AUDIO: Ep. 01 - How to get an AML job in NYC

Kinsa Durst interviews Prashant Fuloria, CEO of Fundbox. Prashant became CEO of Fundbox in 2020, after serving as COO and CPO. He joined Fundbox in 2016 from Yahoo, where he was SVP of Advertising Products. Prashant came to Yahoo through the acquisition of Flurry, then the world’s largest mobile analytics platform, where he was CPO. Before Flurry, he was Senior Product Director at Facebook, responsible for advertising products and monetizing the Facebook platform. Prior to that, Prashant was an early product leader at Google where he built the company’s global billing and payment network and ran all products for the APAC region. Prashant holds a B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, where he was the President’s Gold Medalist. He also holds a Ph.D. in Business with a Minor in Engineering-Economic Systems & Operations Research, an MA in Business Research, and an MS in Statistics, all from Stanford University.

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Prashant Fluoria, CEO of Fundbox

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