How To Be Moderately Successful.

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Building a business is hard. 
Maintaining healthy relationships with those that you care about is hard.
 Staying fit and healthy in your body, your mind and your emotions is hard. 
This podcast is about finding and sharing tools, strategies and experiences that may help you to achieve and maintain moderate success in your life, whatever that means to you. 
There is a ton of content created by the billionaires, the ultra successful athletes, and by people that are at a level that the vast majority of us will just never get to. And if you're anything like me, you're totally okay with that. 
This is a place where we talk about how to build a great business, but not necessarily a massive one. A place to talk about how we build a life that is balanced and integrated, but not necessarily optimised to levels that are not realistic for most of us. 
In short, it's a place where we explore how to be moderately successful. 
The work will always remain yours, and for the most part, it's simple, but not easy.
I sincerely hope it's valuable to you.

-Mike

Find out more about  working with me or about applying to join the Room 27. 

https://www.smbmastery.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
https://room27.com.au/

Send us Fan Mail

Building a business is hard. 
Maintaining healthy relationships with those that you care about is hard.
 Staying fit and healthy in your body, your mind and your emotions is hard. 
This podcast is about finding and sharing tools, strategies and experiences that may help you to achieve and maintain moderate success in your life, whatever that means to you. 
There is a ton of content created by the billionaires, the ultra successful athletes, and by people that are at a level that the vast majority of us will just never get to. And if you're anything like me, you're totally okay with that. 
This is a place where we talk about how to build a great business, but not necessarily a massive one. A place to talk about how we build a life that is balanced and integrated, but not necessarily optimised to levels that are not realistic for most of us. 
In short, it's a place where we explore how to be moderately successful. 
The work will always remain yours, and for the most part, it's simple, but not easy.
I sincerely hope it's valuable to you.

-Mike

Find out more about  working with me or about applying to join the Room 27. 

https://www.smbmastery.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
https://room27.com.au/

Send us Fan Mail

Building a business is hard. 
Maintaining healthy relationships with those that you care about is hard.
 Staying fit and healthy in your body, your mind and your emotions is hard. 
This podcast is about finding and sharing tools, strategies and experiences that may help you to achieve and maintain moderate success in your life, whatever that means to you. 
There is a ton of content created by the billionaires, the ultra successful athletes, and by people that are at a level that the vast majority of us will just never get to. And if you're anything like me, you're totally okay with that. 
This is a place where we talk about how to build a great business, but not necessarily a massive one. A place to talk about how we build a life that is balanced and integrated, but not necessarily optimised to levels that are not realistic for most of us. 
In short, it's a place where we explore how to be moderately successful. 
The work will always remain yours, and for the most part, it's simple, but not easy.
I sincerely hope it's valuable to you.

-Mike

Find out more about  working with me or about applying to join the Room 27. 

https://www.smbmastery.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
https://room27.com.au/

Send us Fan Mail

Building a business is hard. 
Maintaining healthy relationships with those that you care about is hard.
 Staying fit and healthy in your body, your mind and your emotions is hard. 
This podcast is about finding and sharing tools, strategies and experiences that may help you to achieve and maintain moderate success in your life, whatever that means to you. 
There is a ton of content created by the billionaires, the ultra successful athletes, and by people that are at a level that the vast majority of us will just never get to. And if you're anything like me, you're totally okay with that. 
This is a place where we talk about how to build a great business, but not necessarily a massive one. A place to talk about how we build a life that is balanced and integrated, but not necessarily optimised to levels that are not realistic for most of us. 
In short, it's a place where we explore how to be moderately successful. 
The work will always remain yours, and for the most part, it's simple, but not easy.
I sincerely hope it's valuable to you.

-Mike

Find out more about  working with me or about applying to join the Room 27. 

https://www.smbmastery.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
https://room27.com.au/

Send us Fan Mail

Building a business is hard. 
Maintaining healthy relationships with those that you care about is hard.
 Staying fit and healthy in your body, your mind and your emotions is hard. 
This podcast is about finding and sharing tools, strategies and experiences that may help you to achieve and maintain moderate success in your life, whatever that means to you. 
There is a ton of content created by the billionaires, the ultra successful athletes, and by people that are at a level that the vast majority of us will just never get to. And if you're anything like me, you're totally okay with that. 
This is a place where we talk about how to build a great business, but not necessarily a massive one. A place to talk about how we build a life that is balanced and integrated, but not necessarily optimised to levels that are not realistic for most of us. 
In short, it's a place where we explore how to be moderately successful. 
The work will always remain yours, and for the most part, it's simple, but not easy.
I sincerely hope it's valuable to you.

-Mike

Find out more about  working with me or about applying to join the Room 27. 

https://www.smbmastery.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
https://room27.com.au/

Send us Fan Mail

Building a business is hard. 
Maintaining healthy relationships with those that you care about is hard.
 Staying fit and healthy in your body, your mind and your emotions is hard. 
This podcast is about finding and sharing tools, strategies and experiences that may help you to achieve and maintain moderate success in your life, whatever that means to you. 
There is a ton of content created by the billionaires, the ultra successful athletes, and by people that are at a level that the vast majority of us will just never get to. And if you're anything like me, you're totally okay with that. 
This is a place where we talk about how to build a great business, but not necessarily a massive one. A place to talk about how we build a life that is balanced and integrated, but not necessarily optimised to levels that are not realistic for most of us. 
In short, it's a place where we explore how to be moderately successful. 
The work will always remain yours, and for the most part, it's simple, but not easy.
I sincerely hope it's valuable to you.

-Mike

Find out more about  working with me or about applying to join the Room 27. 

https://www.smbmastery.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
https://room27.com.au/

Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore great FinTech products, businesses and leaders.

I’m your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona Digital is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.

In today's show, I’m joined again by Ran Neuner from Crypto Banter and we are going to be talking about crypto and Web3 in the context of 2022. 

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Today's episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.

Working with us to accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product squads that cover development, UI and UX, product ownership and architecture, and that have been building products together for a very long time.

You get the benefit of a 40 person studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to one of the principals. And, you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.

As one of our clients said, “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe…because if you want to be the best, that's the sort of thing that you do”.

To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to our website to book a call directly.

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I’m joined again today by Ran Neuner, host of Crypto Banter and one of the biggest crypto YouTube channels. They have grown to just under 540k subscribers. 

He is essentially becoming the Blomberg of crypto. One of the main differences with Ran, and the reason I follow his content, is that he was a massively successful entrepreneur before he even got into the crypto space. He built and sold The Creative Council which ended up being the largest deal of its time in Africa. Ran is also a CA and a very smart guy.

Today’s show is not going to be so much about a founder's journey, but more about what we might expect to see in the Web3 space for the year ahead and how it relates to Fintech.

We will try to keep the jargon to a minimum, but if you hear terms that you don't recognise, google them and you’ll likely go down a rabbit hole that will be, at a minimum pretty interesting.

Before I welcome Ran, I want to be clear that nothing on this show is financial advice. Neither myself nor Ran are financial advisors and it needs to be said that this space is very very risky. 

Welcome back, Ran. Thanks for making the time. 

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Thanks for listening to the show!  

If you’d like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.

I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
 

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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore great FinTech products, businesses and leaders.

I’m your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona Digital is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.

In today's show, I’m joined by Matt Baxby, CEO of Revolut Australia and we’ll be talking about his journey and insights in the Fintech space. 

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Today's episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.

Working with us to accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product squads that cover development, UI and UX, product ownership and architecture, and that have been building products together for a very long time.

You get the benefit of a 40 person studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to one of the principals. And, you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.

As one of our clients said, “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe…because if you want to be the best, that's the sort of thing that you do”.

To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to our website to book a call directly.

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My guest today is Matt Baxby who has got a massive amount of experience in the world of finance.

Matt started his career as a solicitor in Australia. After two years he moved to London to take up a role with Virgin as an Investment Manager after which he became the Investment Director.

His next role was Commercial and Strategy Director at Virgin Money which later developed into Managing Director at Virgin Money Australia. 

In 2012 Matt moved over to the Bank of Queensland as their CFO. Today, Matt is the CEO of Revolut Australia.

It's unlikely that Revolut needs much of an introduction. In case you are not familiar, Revolut is one of the most successful Fintechs on the planet, building a global financial super app. They have over 15 million customers and process more than 100 million transactions per month. They aim to help their customers improve their financial health, give them more control, and connect them seamlessly across the world.

As if Matt is not doing enough, he also has four kids. Matt and I share a passion for cycling, and I have no doubt that we will have a great conversation.

Welcome to the show, Matt. 

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Thanks for listening to the show!  

If you’d like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.

I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.

Connect with Matt or Revolut.   

Connect with Mike or Nona.

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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore great FinTech products, businesses and leaders.

I am your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona Digital is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.

In today's show, I am joined by Stephen Young from NFTfi and we will be talking about his journey building a leading NFT lending platform. 

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Today's episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.

Working with us to accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product squads that cover development, UI and UX, product ownership and architecture, and that have been building products together for a very long time.

You get the benefit of a 40 person studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to one of the principals. And, you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.

As one of our clients said, “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe…because if you want to be the best, that is the sort of thing that you do”.

To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to our website to book a call directly.

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Today I am joined by Stephen Young who is building something very interesting, and in a space that is now gaining a lot of attention - the NFT space.

Stephen spent a lot of his earlier career with Allan Gray, a massive traditional financial services company in South Africa, where he held multiple roles across technology and digital marketing.

He spent some time with 22seven which was one of the first companies that I saw use banking feeds to help people manage their finances better and this was way before open banking. 

He helped Coindirect in their earlier days as Chief Product Officer and it is safe to say that he has been around Web3 for a decent amount of time now which has led him to his current focus as the founder and CEO of NFTfi.

NFTfi is a simple marketplace for NFT collateralized loans which means that they allow you to put up your NFT assets as collateral for a loan or to offer loans to other people on their NFTs.

Welcome Stephen, it is great to have you on the show.

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Thanks for listening to the show!  

If you would like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you are welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.

I will be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.

Connect with Stephen or NFTfi.  

Connect with Mike or Nona.

Follow Nona Digital: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube

Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore great FinTech products, businesses and leaders.

I’m your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona Digital is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.

In today's show, I’m joined by Jay Ganatra from Infinity Ventures and we’ll be talking about early-stage Fintech venture investing. 

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Today's episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.

Working with us to accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product squads that cover development, UI and UX, product ownership and architecture, and that have been building products together for a very long time.

You get the benefit of a 40 person studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to one of the principals.

And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.

As one of our clients said, “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe…because if you want to be the best, that's the sort of thing that you do”.

To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to our website to book a call directly.

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Jay Ganatra is an interesting type of venture investor. After completing his studies at Duke University Jay went straight into investment banking as an analyst with Cogent Partners. 

After a few more roles in the investment space, he joined Yelp where he ended up as a Senior Director of Business Operations and Strategy at Yelp Eat24 In 2020 Jay joined Paypal Ventures as Senior Director and Partner.

All of this has led up to his current focus as the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Infinity Ventures which is an early-stage venture firm focused on investing in Fintech and commerce enablement companies across the globe.

Welcome Jay it's great to have you on the show.

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Thanks for listening to the show!  

 If you’d like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.

I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.

Connect with Jay or Infinity Ventures.  

Connect with Mike or Nona.

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