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Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed
Searching for Mana explores how technology, capital and institutions are being reshaped in real time. Hosted by Lloyd Wahed, each episode features conversations with founders, investors and policymakers operating at the frontier, from AI and digital assets to global finance and government. These aren’t surface-level interviews. They’re focused on how things actually get built, scaled and implemented. The through-line is simple: what separates those who can turn change into advantage, and those…
Episodes
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedAccelerating Web3 & the Metaverse | Jamie Burke, CEO & Founder, Outlier Ventures
Outlier Ventures are a market leading Web3 accelerator. With 185 investments last year and a steady dose of bullish sentiment towards crypto, Outlier CEO and…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Kain Warwick, Synthetix
The Missing Link, a podcast by Nayms designed to uncover the crucial synergy between blockchain and insurance. Kain Warwick, Founder of Synthetix and…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe Future of Fraud, Crypto and AI | Soups Ranjan, CEO & Founder, Sardine
Searching for Mana is back with Sardine CEO and Co-Founder Soups Ranjan. Join host Lloyd Wahed and we dive into why fraud, AI, machine learning, payments, and…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Kevin de Patoul
The Missing Link, a podcast by Nayms designed to uncover the crucial synergy between blockchain and insurance. Kevin de Patoul, CEO and Co-Founder of the…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedWhy Crypto Needs Insurance | Dan Roberts, CEO Nayms
Bringing together crypto and insurance, Dan Roberts CEO at Nayms kicks off the new Searching for Mana season with a special episode. Lloyd and Dan sit down…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Steven Becker, UDHC
The Missing Link's first guest is Steven Becker, CEO of UDHC and former President & COO of MakerDAO. From early beginnings in derivatives and trading, the…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Meet Your Hosts
Welcome to The Missing Link, in partnership with Searching for Mana, a podcast where crypto and insurance come together. Join Dan Roberts and Danielle Wall…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedUnlocking Financial Freedom for Everyone, Head of Plaid Europe Ripsy Bandourian
This week’s guest on the Searching for Mana show is Head of Plaid Europe, Ripsy Bandourian. A journey from Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Apple and Booking.com has…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedPascal Gauthier, Ledger: On a pathway to hiring Apple CEO Tim Cook?
On a pathway to hiring Apple CEO Tim Cook? Pascal Gauthier is the CEO and co-founder of Ledger, a global leader in security and infrastructure solutions for…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedCreating more liquidity in private markets, Martijn de Wever, CEO Floww
Joining Lloyd this week is Floww CEO & FinTech expert Martijn de Wever. Partnered with The London Stock Exchange, Floww provides data to increase transparency…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedBuilding the Future of E-Commerce, Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla
This week’s podcast episode guest is Bolt Financial CEO Maju Kuruvilla. A former executive at Amazon, where he helped launch Amazon Fresh, Maju has taken over…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed0 to Unicorn in 5 months | Austin Allison | CEO, Pacaso
Joining Lloyd this week, is Austin Allison, CEO of Pacaso, the fastest-growing tech unicorn of all time. From humble beginnings, and an unusual path, Austin…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedBlockchain will become like a public good | Solana CEO, Anatoly Yakovenko
Joining Lloyd this week is Solana Founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko, in this fascinating, candid and eye-opening episode. Solana really needs no introduction…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedWorking for and backing generational businesses | Amy Wu | Head of Ventures, FTX
Amy Wu, Head of Ventures, M&A and Gaming at FTX represents one of the best-known and most successful Venture Capitalists in the crypto and web3 spaces. Having…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedAchieving perfect founder-market fit | Diogo Monica, Co-Founder, Anchorage Digital
Few others’ experiences and career path have left them so destined to found their business, with Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Chris Dixon coining…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed“The person who saw the future of music and steered the industry” | Mike Weissman, CEO SoundCloud
Mike Weissman, CEO of music and tech giant SoundCloud needs no introduction. Leading one of the most prominent and well-known consumer tech companies on the…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe Art of Storytelling Within Tech | David Shriver, Head of Communications, Ocado Group
David Shriver, Head of Communications at Ocado Group, knows how to formulate and tell a story. Exceptionally eloquent and adept at forming narratives within…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedBringing a Billion People to Web3 | Illia Polosukhin, CEO, NEAR Protocol
Illia Polosukhin, Founder & CEO of NEAR Protocol, is this week’s guest on Searching for Mana. Following on from the brilliant earlier episode with Marieke…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedChanging the World through Crypto & Safe-Keeping the World of Finance | Michael Gronager, CEO, Chainalysis
From discussing the meaning of life, to the cruciality of atomic habits, to genuinely aiming to change the world, this week’s guest, Michael Gronager - CEO of…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedBuilding for the long-term in Blockchain | Sendi Young, European MD, Ripple
Sendi Young is the European Managing Director for global crypto payments leader Ripple, with an extensive background across payments with traditional corporate…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe State of Diversity within FinTech & VC, Eileen Burbidge, Founding Partner Passion Capital
Eileen Burbidge is the founding partner of Passion Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund that has backed FinTech giants including the likes of Monzo…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedWhy I love recessions and what the military taught me, Arik Shtilman, Co-founder Rapyd
Arik Shtilman heads up global payments solution Rapyd – one of Europe’s most highly valued fintechs. Arik’s first rung on the career ladder was the Israeli…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedClinically Inappropriate Obsessiveness and Open Mic Comedy Nights, Wei Lei, Chief Investment Strategist, BlackRock
The Searching for Mana show with Lloyd Wahed has featured several ‘one of a kind’ guests – and this show is no exception. Wei Lei is not only a global leader…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedSweatcoin: the answer to nature’s orgasm failure, Oleg Fomenko, Founder Sweatcoin
Being paid to get fit may sound too good to be true, but it’s exactly what this week’s Searching for Mana guest Ole Fomenko is doing for his app’s more than 70…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedFailure to code led to success in tech, Marieke Flament, CEO NEAR foundation
As CEO of the NEAR protocol foundation, Marieke Flament is currently one of the most successful female leaders working in fintech. But it took some convincing…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed"While I'm still learning, I'm very happy" - Rodolphe Ardant's Mantra - Founder, CEO of French Unicorn Spendesk
Rodolphe Ardant, CEO of French unicorn Spendesk, is this week’s guest on the Searching for Mana podcast. Rodolphe enjoyed a peripatetic childhood moving around…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe next Beeple? A programmable NFT that anyone can edit 👨🎨 / Andrea Bonaceto, Artist
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsCfKLN1u1cL_luwY5qR4Yw Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/2Hhg4gB Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3kKZQKl Searching for…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed'Stay small and nimble', Brett Harrison, president FTX.US
In the first episode of season 4 of the Searching for Mana podcast, Brett Harrison, US president of leading crypto exchange platform FTX, talks to presenter…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedEurope's fastest growing unicorn 🦄 | Philip Belamant, Zilch
This is quite a story, listen to Zilch CEO and Co-Founder, Philip Belamant, British Entrepreneur of the year 2021, who has taken the business from series A to…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe Future of Blockchain: Green and Community Governed | Arthur & Kathleen Breitman, Tezos
On this week’s Searching for Mana Lloyd Wahed CEO of Mana Search met with Arthur and Kathleen Breitman, the co-creators of the Tezos blockchain to discuss the…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedBlockchain with A Carbon-Negative Network | Sean Lee, Algorand
Building anything that is going to survive and prosper requires a solid foundation and that is what Sean Lee CEO of the Algo Foundation described when he met…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedInvesting made social | Benjamin Chemla, Shares
Ben Chemla CEO of Shares and Lloyd Wahed of Mana Search met to discuss how Shares is making share dealing a social activity and how Ben has learnt how to grow…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedBetting on true leadership as an entrepreneur | Jason Trost, Smarkets
On this week’s Searching for Mana podcast, Jason Trost CEO of Smarkets and Lloyd Wahed discussed the evolution of Smarkets and how it is disrupting an old…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedA unicorn in the fragmented world of payments | Claire Gates, ppro
The consumer is driving up economic growth at an unprecedented rate around the world, and Claire Gates discussed with Lloyd Wahed in this week’s Searching for…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe rise of the Gen Z investor | Yorick Naeff, Bux
Treating customers as equals, in simple terms, without talking down to them, is the vital communication strategy that is helping Bux offer it’s affordable and…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedFull-stack banking as a service | David Jarvis, Griffin
Lloyd Wahed met with David Jarvis, Founder and CEO of Griffin on the latest Searching for Mana podcast where they discussed the challenges of being the…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedTrust, Tink and a global fintech opportunity | Rafa Plantier, Tink
In the blink of an eye, Tink has gone from a B2C player in one country in Europe to a B2B solution in eighteen markets, giving them access to more than 250m…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedPowering fintechs behind the scenes | Myles Stephenson, Modulr
Myles Stephenson (Founder & CEO, Modulr) sits down with Lloyd to talk about how his company provides payments infrastructure to the likes of Revolut, Sage…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe last thing we want to do is chase a fad or chase some hype | Julian Sawyer, Bitstamp
This week, Bitstamp CEO Julian Sawyer comes back to Searching for Mana to join Lloyd for an enlightening chat about fintech, crypto, altcoins and so much more!…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedHacking into blockchain due diligence | Kamil Gorski, Tokenguard
This week, TokenGuard CEO and Founder Kamil Gorski joins Mimi Nguyen, our R&D Head for an enlightening chat about due diligence in blockchain, smart contracts…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedEnabling the future: Green Finance | Fireside Chat Fintech Week London 2021 | Romina Savova, PensionBee | Joe Parkin, Blackrock
This week we are presenting a very special Fireside Chat as part of Fintech Week London 2021 broadcasted live from Barclays Rise. Joining Lloyd Wahed, we’ll…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedWhat is Next For Blockchain in Financial Services? Fintech Week London 2021 Panel | Chris Skinner, The Finanser | Marcus Treacher, Clear Bank / Ripple | Haydn Jones, PwC | Simon Taylor, 11:FS | Erlang Solutions
Speculations, hypes, doges, icos, nfts aside.. what’s next for blockchain in financial services? How can this underlying technology disrupt the banking system?…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe crypto platform with 8 million customers | Sam Kopelman, Luno
This week, Luno’s UK Country Manager Sam Kopelman joins Ollie Brown, our Blockchain Associate Director for an enlightening chat about crypto, entrepreneurship…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedWhy is the mortgage industry so archaic? | Richard Hayes, Mojo Mortgages
Mojo Mortgages CEO and co-founder Richard Hayes tells Lloyd Wahed how he went from a studying music to founding a leading UK online mortgage broker, that…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedDo you know where your pension is invested? | Chris Eastwood, Penfold
Chris Eastwood, co-founder and co-CEO at Penfold, sits down with Lloyd to talk about how his digital-based pension platform for self-employed workers and…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedFintech London Week: Fintech for the public good | Lord Holmes, MBE, House of Lords
This week, Lord Holmes, MBE joins Lloyd in this special episode, within the Fintech Week London 2021, for an enlightening chat about fintech, financial…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedShould DeFi be regulated? | Jakub Zakrzewski, Kraken
This week, Kraken’s Managing Director Jakub Zakrzewski joins Lloyd for an enlightening chat about crypto, fintech, angel investment, career progression and so…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe future of software development | Nicholas Mills, CircleCI
Nick Mills, CircleCI GM EMEA, joins Lloyd to discuss the future of tech and software engineering. The company, which is a software delivery platform automating…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedUK banking's most eccentric founder/ceo opens up | Mark Mullen, Atom Bank
Mark Mullen (CEO anad co-founder of Atom Bank) joins Lloyd to discuss the state of UK fintech, mortgage and SME lending and what it takes to disrupt UK…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedFor entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs (a Silicon Valley VC & a Dragon Den’s Investor) | Andrew D'Souza, Clearco
We’ve got startup lending on the brain this week as serial VC Andrew D’Souza sits down with Lloyd to talk working capital, angel mentorship and so much more…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed"All you need is curve" - the world's slimmest wallet | Shachar Bialick, Curve
Shachar Bialick (Founder and CEO of Curve) joins Lloyd to discuss how Curve helps its users consolidate multiple cards, and even allowing them to switch…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedEmbedded finance to the moon | Rob Straathof, Liberis
Rob Straathof (CEO, Liberis) sits down with Lloyd to talk about how his company offers pre-approved revenue-based SME financing. After entering the industry as…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedRaising the stakes in finance | Jed Rose, Airwallex
The future of finance is here as Airwallex’ Jed Rose sits down with Lloyd to discuss how he plans to expand the UK operations of this $2.6B valued fintech…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedAnd the Oscar Goes To... | Jacqueline Dewey, British Bank Awards (Smart Money People)
Jacqueline Dewey (CEO, Smart Money People, British Bank Awards) sits down with Lloyd to talk about how her company is helping to build trust and transparency…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe Currency Cold War | Dave Birch, author, advisor and commentator
Dave Birch is an internationally-recognised thought leader in digital identity and digital money. He joins Stefan Ciecierski from Mana Search for a…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe finance community with one million subscribers | Max Rofagha, Finimize
Finimize is building the world's largest and most engaged finance community, with over one million subscribers across their app. Max Rofagha, its co-founder…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedPost-Easter Economic Outlook for Q2 2021 | Michael Brown, Caxton FX
Michael Brown (Senior Market Analyst, Caxton FX) joins Lloyd for a special Post-Easter episode tackling the latest economic developments in the UK. Since…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedLife insurance that inspires life and employee wellbeing | Sammy Rubin, YuLife
Sammy Rubin (Founder and CEO of YuLife) sits down with Lloyd to talk about how his company brings together life insurance, wellbeing & rewards in one simple…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedThe VC that sold iZettle for 2.2 Billion to Paypal | Josh Bell, Dawn Capital
The future of money is here as Dawn Capital General Partner Josh Bell sits down with Lloyd to discuss how he finds tomorrow’s behemoths, leading the fund’s…
Searching for Mana with Lloyd WahedEarnings on demand and financial wellbeing | James Herbert, Hastee
James Herbert is the founder and CEOof Hastee - an award-winning earnings on demand technology, offered as a workplace benefit that enables workers to take a…