On The Margin | Boaz Sobrado & Ivan Patriki

There’s a company processing over to $350 million in transactions that spends less on AI all year than most startups spend on it in a single month. Anton Lobintsev, co-founder of the stablecoin-based financial platform SquareFi, built it that way on purpose. His company didn’t start as a fintech at all. It started as a platform to tokenize real estate in Georgia and Indonesia, until Anton and his...

Nigel and Boaz Sobrado explore how AI is set to transform gaming—and why virtual dealers could become one of the first AI experiences millions of people interact with every day. Nigel explains why his company believes AI dealers can outperform human dealers, how crypto and stablecoins are reshaping the online casino industry, and why AI isn’t simply replacing jobs but evolving into a social layer...

Koceila Cougar and Ivan Patriki speak about some crazy secrets here...Koceila is a Paris-based artist, musician, and cultural strategist who's sold paintings for $100,000, exhibited at Art Basel Miami, and moved through the same circles as billionaires, royalty, and people he won't name on camera. He describes himself as a "cultural spy" - someone who sees what others can't, moves between worlds m...

Yoon Auh spent a decade building trading systems before landing on the program trading desk at Credit Suisse, becoming head trader, then VP at Goldman Sachs, then head trader at Magnetar Capital — where he accidentally invented what became an entire sub-industry on Wall Street. Then he walked away from institutional finance to solve a problem nobody else would touch: your data is Big Tech's produc...

No way Ilies Larbi actually told me this.. the crypto industry has a dirty secret and guy behind a HUGE brokerage, Ivan Patriki learns the truth about it. He said he's building a brokerage to fix it.. I'm interviewing about it and seeing if it's actually true. I sat down with the 20-year traditional finance veteran and founder of Ouinex, to pull back the curtain on what actually happens when you t...

Reeve Collins co-founded Tether, the world's largest stablecoin powering a $180+ billion financial network. But he didn't start in crypto. He was there at the birth of the internet with a startup that went public for $6.6 billion in 1999. Then he did it again in blockchain. In this conversation, he breaks down why stablecoins are reshaping global finance, why the government won't kill Bitcoin, and...

From Soviet Refugee into GoMining CEO: Mark Zalan on GoMining, Crypto Fraud & the FUTURE of Bitcoin. GoMining is one of the top 10 Bitcoin miners in the world by hash power, and the CEO Mark Zalan sat down with me to share the unfiltered story behind his rise from Soviet Union refugee to leading a company with 5 million users. We cover:How his family fled the Soviet Union in 1989 with $360 and ref...

Backed by the same investors who funded SpaceX, I sat down with Tanner, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Counterpart, to get an honest look at what it actually takes to build something real fraom scratch. From cold-calling 40 people about a job offer in Malaysia and only trusting the two who said yes, to raising $50M to fix an industry everyone hates, to why working 14-hour days is his version of go...

Trevor Traina just told me everything. How Trump appointed him as US ambassador, how to sell companies to Microsoft and Mastercard, and his biggest project yet: Kresus, a Web3 super app. I sat down with Trevor, a serial entrepreneur turned U.S. Ambassador to Austria and now founder of Kresus, to get an honest look at what it actually takes to reach the top. From raising your first $100k from frien...

Stanislav, a growth consultant for brokers and prop firms, gave me an honest look at what's really going on behind the scenes. From firms going bankrupt the moment payouts are due, to influencers faking their trading profits, to why entire countries get banned from platforms — this conversation goes places most people in finance won't touch. If you're thinking about starting a prop firm, or puttin...

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Cryptocurrencies have furthered the professionalisation of the global scamming industry. How do these scams work? Who are the players involved? What can we do about them? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.on-the-margin.com

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Most Fintechs startups fail. But why? And does AI now mean we should be revisiting some of the ideas behind the failed Fintech startups of the past? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.on-the-margin.com

BNB Chain is often overlooked in Western financial circles, but is a behemoth that serves many people across the world. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.on-the-margin.com

Polygon is moving towards a vertically integrated payments stack. What does that mean? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.on-the-margin.com

Why does every single world religion control sexual behaviour? Why do all religions have rules around food and fasting? These are the topics I discussed with Jim Penman, a businessman who is funding his own research on the controversial topic of biohistory. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.on-the-margin.co...