E0: A VC’s journey from Wall Street to Bitcoin w/ Roman Leal
Welcome to Episode Zero!
Join our hosts, Jeremy Almond and Megan Guy, in conversation with our first guest, Roman Leal, Managing Partner of Leap Global Partners. We discuss Roman's first experience with crypto and blockchain technology, Goldman Sachs's role in bringing crypto to Wall Street, the first Blockchain uses at Big Tech and more.
- Roman's origin story: How Cross Border Remittance Fees Rip Off Immigrants
- Creating Goldman Sachs' first ever crypto report (in 2010!) - fear and fascination in Wall Street
- Financial access, regulation, and democratization: can we avoid replicating the same mistakes?
- Big Tech - How PayPal tried to take on the blockchain opportunity
- Cracking the b2b payments puzzle with blockchain
- Banking the Unbanked, enabling financial inclusion in emerging communities
- VC perspective on blockchain investments
- Building the best version of web3.0
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