

Around The Coin
Stephen Sargeant and Mike Townsend
Around The Coin is a podcast exploring finance, fintech, and the future of money. Hosted by industry experts, it features deep dives into payments, crypto, banking, and disruptive innovations shaping the global economy.
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Jun 8, 2016 • 1h 12min
Episode 99 - There Is A Revolution Ahead And It Has A Voice
Today Brian and Mike discussed the news of Viv Labs launching publicly and the representative revolution in AI this represents. The core of the discussion stems from the ideas of exformation (information subconsciously filtered out to give you a seamless perception of reality) originally presented in our interview of Tor Nørretranders. We use these building blocks and the history of basic human communication and technological progress to draw predictions on the future of how tech will creep up on us and change our everyday lives. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter.Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 4, 2016 • 57min
Episode 98: The Serendipity of Conferences
This week Mike Townsend, Brian Roemmele and Faisal Khan discuss Conferences. How to attend them, plan for them? What to look out for and above all, the serendipity factor of conferences.Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter.Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 27, 2016 • 50min
Episode 97: Money2020 Europe, ETA & TechStars
This week the three payment nerds Brian, Faisal and Mike are back at it again. Faisal discusses the recent Money2020 Europe Conference that was held in Copenhagen for the very first time. Brian discusses his coverage of the TRANSACT show by ETA (Electronic Transaction Association) and Mike tells us all about how HomeHero is enrolled in TechStars with Cedars Sinai Hospital.Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter.Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 28, 2016 • 50min
Episode 96: Alexa/Raspberry Pi, Apple CareKit and Mobile Wallets!
This week the three amigos Brian, Faisal and Mike are back at it again. Brian discuss Amazon's Echo and the new Echo equivalent that one can build with Raspberry Pi. Mike explains the benefits and the potential of Apple's CareKit and Faisal discusses mobile wallets and small value transfer, why we need to reexamine the whole ecosystem. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter.Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 24, 2016 • 1h 12min
Episode 95: Voice Recognition - How it will replace APIs
This week Mike Townsend and Faisal Khan dive deep into what Brian Roemmele affectionately calls Ontological Recipes - How Voice Recognition will replace APIs, mega shift in payments and interaction.Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter.Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 16, 2016 • 36min
Episode 94: Interview Jon Carder MOGL CEO
This week Mike interviews the CEO of MOGL.com - Jon Carder: Jon Carder is an experienced entrepreneur who has founded five internet businesses, his first at the age of 19. In college Jon founded eHeaven.com, an online e-commerce superstore that was purchased by BabyUniverse in 2002. Jon Carder then founded Client Shop inc. a website dedicated to finding consumers the lowest rates on home loans. ClientShop was San Diego's fastest growing company in 2005 (San Diego Business Journal) and was sold to Internet Brands in 2006. After a short “retirement” he realized building companies beats is more fulfilling than being retired and started his next venture, MojoPages.com, an online local search engine which received $5M (series A) from Austin Ventures and operates out of La Jolla, CA. Most recently Jon is founder and CEO of Mogl.com - a frictionless online to offline rewards program & Empyr.com - an online to offline ad platform. Mogl/Empyr has raised $35M in funding and has a partnership with Visa, Mastercard and Amex to effortlessly track any purchase from an enrolled consumer at a participating offline merchant in under 1 minute.Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter.Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 16, 2016 • 45min
Episode 93 - Where is the future of Voice Recognition and AI
This week Brian and Mike discuss where is the future of voice recognition and artificial intelligence.Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter.Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 28, 2016 • 1h 13min
Episode 92: Robots, Conferences, Undocumented, Currency Notes & the Historic Value of Money
This week, Brian, Faisal and Mike discuss the coming of age of Robots & AI and what it means for us. We touch upon the various conferences we will be attending, covering and speaking in. The undocumented work, couple that with the recent news of the eliminating the US $100 Bill, what does all this mean. What has history taught us about value transfer and control. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter.Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 26, 2016 • 37min
Episode 91: Interview with Drew Sievers
Drew Sievers is one of North America's foremost innovators in mobile financial services.As mFoundry’s Co-Founder & CEO, Drew helped build the mBanking industry, establishing mFoundry as the industry leader with more than 900 clients. mFoundry also developed North America’s largest mPayment solution, Starbucks Card Mobile. Drew sold mFoundry to FIS for $165MM.Drew was also the President of iAgency powerhouse Semaphore Partners, which was acquired in 2002.Drew spent 5 years in Japan as Regional Director for Saatchi & Saatchi, and co-founded Saatchi & Saatchi Interactive.Drew advises and sits on the boards of Spendgo, mScripts, and Fortumo.Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter.Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 26, 2016 • 1h 10min
Episode 90: All You Need Is Love.
All You Need Is Love - A deep dive into decisions of government security, freedom and our responsibility as a society.Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter.Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices


