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Alex is co-founder and CEO of Plug Pagamentos, a LatAm payments platform. For the past 12-years, he's worked with startups around the globe — living in cities such as San Francisco, New York, London, and Madrid. Previous to starting Plug, Alex managed southern Europe for Braintree — a PayPal company, where he saw his best clients attempting integrating multiple PSPs. When not talking about payments or LatAm startups, Alex can be found surfing or training jiu-jitsu.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over the past twelve years, Will has worked with seven different billion-dollar banking and securities companies. During that time, he witnessed long-time industry incumbents lose market share to FinTech unicorns, as products democratized access to financial markets and minted millions of new investors overnight.Will felt that the industry had prioritized access over education, and in the process failed to appropriately equip new investors with the knowledge to succeed. Will built Stack to teach the youngest generation foundational finance principles so that they could build habits that last a lifetime.By leveraging the zeitgeist of digital assets and web3, Will (via Stack) wants to make learning about finance fun, social, and rewarding.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris is a technologist and designer focused on improving the usability of decentralized applications, with the aim of making Web3 available for the masses. In 2014, he founded Cardstack, where he leads a team of open-source contributors to build the collaborative OS for Web3. He previously built the first NFT platform on the Bitcoin blockchain. He also pioneered the use of distributed-ledger technology to create media registries. Chris has more than a decade of experience leading R&D and innovation teams for Fortune 500 companies. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chief marketing officer of blockchain gaming company Lepricon. Phil has over 30 years of experience across a variety of industries including video games and blockchain. Originally from London, he was worked in the UK, USA and Hong Kong for organisations as diverse as Cable & Wireless to his own start up web development agency which he hold to a publicly traded US corporation. His specialities are strategic marketing, operations, process management, people and performance management, strategic direction and strategy implementation.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jake is the founder and CEO of Metalink, where he leads company strategy and brand innovation. Prior to starting Metalink, Jake served as head of activation for Community.com, a software company enabling celebrities and high profile entities, ranging from Barack Obama to White Claw, to directly reach their fans and customers text messages. Udell also founded music management company TH3RD BRAIN, developing business for artists such as Krewella, ZHU, Gallant, and Grace VanderWaal. Udell was recognized on Forbes' 2016 30 Under 30 list and Billboard’s 2018 40 Under 40 list.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sushil Prabhu is the CEO and Chairman of Dropp, a pay-per-use transaction platform designed to make it easy for consumers to purchase small-value goods and services via micropayments, securely and without signups. Sushil has been a technology leader, innovator and entrepreneur in the tech field for the past 30 years, with a demonstrated history of assisting enterprise and startups in building digital platforms and leading them to profitability using cutting-edge concepts and technologies like BlockChain and data analytics. As past CEO and current Chairman of OpenCrowd, Sushil dedicated a significant amount of time consulting his clients on ways to best leverage advanced technologies to produce economic results.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eran has over 20 years of experience founding and managing software-related companies in the fields of financial trading, insurance, and advertising, with 5+ years in the blockchain ecosystem. Previously, Eran was the CTO of Israel Direct Insurance and co-founded and served as the CEO of an algorithmic trading company. In 2014, he co-founded Meme Video, an algorithmic media tech company (acquired by TASE: Somoto), where he served as CEO for 3 years. Eran sits on the advisory board of JFrog (5B$+ valuation) and Venn (total funding $100M).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joshua Goldbard is the founder and CEO of MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency technology company, and a founding partner at Crypto Lotus, a cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund. He really likes sound amplification devices.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patrick Kann is the CEO and co-founder of Papaya, a mobile application that uses computer vision technology to pay any bill in a matter of seconds. Prior to Papaya, Patrick worked at the New Ventures Group at idealab. He previously worked at World Bank, was a Private Equity Executive at Macquarie Group, and held the position of Director of Corporate Development at eSolar. Patrick is originally from Brazil where he received his Bachelor’s of Science in Industrial Engineering. He then moved to the United States where he received his MBA at Stanford University.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Karn is responsible for operations, business development, and investor relations at Cover. Before entrepreneurship, Karn was a management consultant, and he went on to complete his Masters at MIT where he attended as a Fulbright Scholar. His first company, Stylekick, was acquir-hired by Shopify in 2015.The first company Karn co-founded was a mobile e-commerce marketplace called Stylekick, which was acqui-hired by Shopify in 2015. Before entrepreneurship, Karn was a management consultant with the financial services advisory practice, Oliver Wyman.With more than 7 years of experience building intuitive mobile products, Karn is now applying his expertise towards making insurance accessible and affordable for underserved customers. Cover has approximately 130 employees across offices in San Francisco, Toronto and Los Angeles.Cover currently sells its own auto insurance products in Texas, where it functions as an MGA, while the original brokerage business continues to thrive by serving customers across the U.S. and comparing over 30 carriers to find customers the best coverage for them.Karn holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University where he graduated with Distinction, along with a Master of Finance from MIT where he attended as a Fulbright Scholar. He is also a Y Combinator Fellow and YC Alumnus.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices