I don’t know what the future of money is going to be any more than Mark Zuckerberg did, but I’m pretty sure it is going to be more radical than a chest of gold-pressed Latinum coins or a stablecoin for avatars in Big Tech’s virtual world.
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John has been in communications since graduating from Creative Communications at Red River College Polytechnic in Winnipeg in 1992. He launched one of Canada's first digital-only local news sites called Winnipeg First in 2007, which led to digital editor postings with the Winnipeg Free Press and Edmonton Journal. In 2012 he joined Bankless Times as managing editor, later becoming president and CEO. He and the Bankless Media co-founders completed a sale and exit in August 2021.
One of the many benefits that fintech has brought is the democratization of investing. What initially attracted me to fintech was the ability to invest in consumer loans through LendingClub, an asset class previously unavailable to individual investors. Another asset class that has been unavailable to regular investors is collectibles. Want to invest in a classic car, rare baseball cards, books, coins or wine? You typically had to be wealthy. Our next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is George […]
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