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The experts at Britannica for Parents bring you Raising Curious Learners—your guide for navigating life’s greatest journey now and in the future. Each episode features research-backed discussions about issues and trends in child development, education, and parenting. Recorded by our hosts Ann Gadzikowski and Elizabeth Romanski in Chicago, this podcast is for the ears of parents, guardians, teachers, and lifelong learners around the world. Part of the trusted Britannica family. For more, visi ...
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I feel privileged to speak to so many great minds as part of my job. They are passionate builders, insightful investors, laser-focused leaders. They are all curious learners in their own way. It is their urge to learn more. That urge is curiosity. When I speak to these people, I hear fascinating ideas, solid business plans, genius growth hacking practices, relentless team building focus, unique investing strategies and many others. However, most of the time, key insights, business intelligen ...
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Hi everyone. My guest today is Mert Mumtaz. He is the co-founder and CEO at Helius, which is a developer platform for the Blockchain ecosystem. Mert is not new to crypto. Prior to starting Helius, he spent years at Coinbase building different products across payments and others. Helius currently supports the Solana ecosystem and Mert has been a big…
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Hi everyone. My guest at The Curious Learners is Amos Wittenberg. He is the co-founder of Dovetail. Amos and his co-founder Phillip Marks are building the climate risk modelling toolkit for investors. Dovetail helps to identify and quantify risks and opportunities in the era of climate transition. What Dovetail is building is critical for instituti…
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Hi everyone. My guest at The Curious Learners is Yurii Kyparus. He is the co-founder of Wallchain, which is a start-up that addresses the issue of MEV (miner extracted value) in crypto. MEV refers to value extracted from crypto transactions. Wallchain captures this value and returns it back to users. Here are some of the topics that we discussed on…
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Sebastian Manhart | Carbon Removal: Where Technology Should Meet Policy | The Curious Learners Ep. 36
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Hi everyone. My guest today is Sebastian Manhart. He is the senior policy adviser at Carbonfuture, which is a technology company building an operating system for high quality carbon removals. Sebastian has a super interesting background of over a decade of entrepreneurship and an advisory role with the German government on decentralized identity. H…
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Super excited to have Peter Grosskopf on the first episode of the second season. Peter is the co-founder and CTO of Ultimate Money (core product of Unstoppable Finance), which is one of the most exciting DeFi products out there. His background is unique coming into crypto from a combination of software development and fintech building / operating a…
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Hi everyone. My guest today is James West. He is the CEO of Globe, which is a crypto futures exchange. James and I agreed to talk about building a crypto exchange a while back and we kept rescheduling since then. Finally, by coincidence, we happened to record the episode on the day FTX filed for bankruptcy! We talked about James' take on what reall…
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My guest today is Chris Perkins. He is the President of CoinFund, which is a crypto-native investment firm founded in 2015. Chris joined CoinFund in 2021 after spending a long time in traditional finance. He was most recently a managing director at CitiGroup. His experience in traditional finance is very relevant from the perspective of crypto's fu…
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Hi everyone. My guest is Kevin Zhang. He is the co-founder of DFX Finance, a decentralized exchange protocol specifically for stablecoins. Kevin has been in crypto for a long time and his journey into building DFX Finance is not a coincidence. Following his time at Consensys, he went on to build Paytrie, which is a stablecoin exchange based in Cana…
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My guest today is Joshua Frank. He is the co-founder and CEO of The Tie, an information services provider for digital assets. Josh and I met some time ago at a crypto conference and I was truly amazed with The Tie product demo back then. On-chain data is usually accessible, however it is never easy to parse it given the different data structures ac…
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Hi everyone. My guest for the 30th episode of The Curious Learners is Lubomila Jordanova. She is the founder of Plan A, which is a climate-tech company working with businesses and top institutions around the world to help with their sustainability journeys. Prior to starting Plan A, Lubomila had substantial experience in financial services as an in…
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My guest today is Evgeny Gokhberg. He is the founder and managing partner of Re7 Capital, which is an investment firm focused on DeFi strategies. Evgeny is not only an investor in DeFi, but also a deep thinker about the technology behind it, the future of crypto and how traditional finance and DeFi would work together to build a whole new financial…
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Hi everyone. My guest today is Will Robinson from Alliance DAO. He is the head of Community at Alliance, where he helps web3 founders build amazing companies. Will was in gaming until his move into crypto in 2017 with the help of a healthy! dose of push from his cousin Dan Robinson. In fact, he is the only person that I know with a PhD in game desi…
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Hi everyone. My guest today is Mounir Benchemled. He is the founder of Paraswap, which is one of the leading DEX aggregators in crypto markets. Mounir's entry into blockchain dates back to 2013 and he had a front seat to the development of crypto markets since then, first as a user and then builder of DeFi (and this is before it was called DeFi). H…
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My guest today is Paul Hsu. He is the founder of Decasonic, a crypto native VC fund. Paul's background and his thesis at Decasonic put him in a unique position to help entrepreneurs ride the next wave of innovation in Blockchain. Our wide-ranging conversation covers the history of innovation in social world, biggest catalysts for mass adoption of w…
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My guest today is Ulric Musset. He is the co-founder of Vauban, which is a technology platform that facilitates private market investing. He and his co-founder Remy Astie have worked on many other projects prior to Vauban, including the very unique idea of a French bakery in London! Luckily for us as investors, they landed on Vauban. Below are some…
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My guest today is my good friend Sam Peurifoy. He is the Head of Interactive for Hivemind Capital Partners and the founder of Playground Labs. The gaming community knows him as Das Kapitalist! Sam is my go-to person when it comes to deep discussions on gaming and web3. It was again a very insightful conversation with him. Here are some highlights f…
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My guest today is Josh Benaron. He is the founder and CEO of Bundlr, which is an essential scaling solution for the decentralized storage network Arweave. His story from learning to code on his own to building Bundlr at a time when Arweave would hit network capacity is fascinating! Josh and I had a great conversation about everything decentralized …
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My guest is Shanti Bergel. He is a gaming industry veteran with significant experience as an operator and founder. He is now one of the founding partners of Transcend Fund, which is a VC fund for the gaming and digital entertainment space. It was fantastic to hear Shanti's deep insights on the industry and his experience with several transformation…
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I don't know if you do, but I don't get to speak to inventors of Blockchain very often. Scott Stornetta is the co-author of three out of eight works referenced in the original Bitcoin whitepaper. Initially, Scott's strong view on the need to create immutable records led him to work with cryptographer Stuart Haber and together invent the very first …
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Hasib Malik | Motivation of Improving Outcomes for Entrepreneurs | The Curious Learners Ep. 20
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My guest today is Hasib Malik. He is the co-founder of Creditbook, which is a technology company that empowers merchants and MSMEs in Pakistan. Creditbook was built on the back of a deep market research that identified the biggest pain points for MSMEs in the country. Hasib and I had an insightful conversation about the potential of Pakistan, what …
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My guest at The Curious Learners is Federico Travella. As a venture builder, he has been involved in the foundation of very successful start-ups in South East Asia (e.g. Lazada). He then went ahead and started his own company, Novicap, which is an end-to-end financing provider for SMEs. Federico and I had a great conversation about financing SMEs, …
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My guest today is Gokul Rajaram. It is hard to find someone who has been as successful in all three of building, operating and investing. He is known as the 'Godfather of Adsense', having built the foundation of Google's advertising business. He then exited his start-up to Facebook and had an amazing career at Facebook, Square and now at Doordash. …
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My guest today is Supriyo Roy. He is the co-founder of Hyy.pe, which is a community-centric content platform for NFTs. NFT market continues to grow at a significant pace in trading volumes. And in parallel we continue to search for the next big thing in NFTs, be it new content or evolving business models. Supriyo and I had a rich conversation on a …
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My guest today is Winston Robson. He is the co-founder of WeMeta, where he and his team are building the data layer for the Metaverse. Winston and I had a great conversation. Below are a few interesting topics that we discussed: - Should we call it Metaverse or Multiverse? - Data is key to "build" and "transact" on the Metaverse - How to interpret …
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For anyone interested in a masterclass in investing in financial services (TradFi & DeFi), here is one delivered by Francesco Filia on The Curious Learners. Francesco is the founder and CIO of Fasanara Capital, which is an alternative investment firm. Francesco and his team have been investing in public and private markets for longer than a decade.…
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My guest today is Calvin Luk from Refinable. It is a decentralised NFT marketplace operating across multiple layer-1 chains. Calvin and I discussed the future of NFT marketplaces, where white-label technology solutions might be more favourable for brands, creators and project owners. Also discussed the following interesting topics: - Difference in …
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I continue to go down the rabbit hole of Web 3.0. My guest is Mark Studholme. He is the founder of Metamundo, which is a marketplace of 3D NFTs and digital assets for metaverse. It is a gateway for the use of artists and creators to build the metaverse. Mark and I discussed all things metaverse. Select topics are listed below: • Difference between …
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My guest today is Simon Vans-Colina. He was in the founding team of Monzo and is now the CTO of Fronted. Simon has contributed to transformation of financial services during his time at Monzo and is now passionate about DeFi and Web 3.0. Hence, he was a perfect guest to talk about the new wave of transformation in fintech, i.e. convergence with Web…
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My guest today is Patrick Hansen. He is the Head of Strategy and Growth at Unstoppable Finance. It is a start-up with a mission of financial inclusion and making decentralised finance accessible to the mass market. Patrick and I talked about what it takes to onboard billion users in DeFi and what they are building at Unstoppable Finance to contribu…
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My guest today is Aleksi Loytynoja. He is the co-founder of Kleoverse, a platform of work in web 3.0. Aleksi and his co-founders launched Kleoverse very recently. Their initial focus is on building the network of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and helping talent discover DAOs and engage with them. Aleksi and I started the episode wit…
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My guest today is Kaan Eryilmaz. He is the founder of Tinyman, a decentralized trading protocol built on the Algorand blockchain. Kaan is also one of the co-founders of Hipo, where they built several successful fintech products. Kaan and I had a great conversation on all things DeFi and Tinyman. Here are some of the topics that we discussed: - How …
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Happy New Year everyone! The Curious Learners is ending 2021 with a special episode on NFTs and web3 with two amazing guests Justin Shenkarow and John Kraski. They are the co-hosts of the wonderful podcast NFT Heat! Justin is an actor, voice actor, producer and Emmy and Golden Globe winner! He is passionate about NFTs. He started in the NFTs space …
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My guest today is Sinan Koc. He is a co-founder of BiLira, which is a stablecoin pegged to Turkish Lira. I truly enjoyed speaking with him. We discussed the following and many more interesting topics: - why do we need stablecoins? Now and in the future? - do stablecoins remain as a gateway between fiat and crypto? - is there a bifurcation for the u…
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My guest today is Krishnan Menon. He is the co-founder and CEO of BukuKas. He is building BukuKas as a one-stop-software solution for merchants. His journey into building BukuKas was an outcome of his deep understanding of merchants' problems. Krishnan and I talked about initial company building, finding product market fit, and the early signals th…
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My guest today is Hugo Amsellem. Hugo is one of the thought leaders that I look up to for the creator economy. He has been working with entrepreneurs, creators and artists for a long time and he was once a founder himself. He is now with Jellysmack as the VP, Community. Hugo and I talked about the current state of creator economy, the framework tha…
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My guest for the fourth episode of The Curious Learners is Feras Jalbout. He is the founder of commission-free investing platform Baraka. Feras is on a mission to democratise access to investing and enable everyone to participate in markets. Among other things, Feras and I discussed the key pillars of building a customer-first investing platform, t…
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My guest for the third episode of The Curious Learners is Geri Cupi. He is a serial entrepreneur with a distinctive focus on circular economy. He also quietly built Monochain as one of the first businesses with an NFT utility in real world. He is now building Twig, which is the "Bank of Things". It is a continuum of circular economy with innovative…
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My guest for the second episode of The Curious Learners was Nikita Fadeev. He is a Partner and Head of Fasanara Digital, which is a quantitative investment fund in crypto assets. It is part of Fasanara Capital, which is an alternative asset management firm founded in 2011. Nikita developed a strong interest in crypto in 2017 when he was at college …
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I knew Jovan Stojanovic was going to be a perfect guest for the first episode of The Curious Learners. Jovan is the co-founder of Anari AI, an exciting artificial intelligence company, where they are building the AI hardware industry from scratch. He is also the founder of Wonderland AI Summit, a mission-driven community of AI experts, practitioner…
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At Britannica for Parents, we’re all curious learners. One of the important topics that seems to come up a lot in our work and in our conversations is the environment – how to protect it and sustain it. One crucial way to do this is by protecting bee populations. Co-hosts Ann and Elizabeth speak to Parent's adviser Marianne Gee (co-founder of Gees …
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Ebony Underwood is the founder of We Got Us Now, a nonprofit nonpartisan advocacy organization amplifying the issues children and young adults with incarcerated parents face due to mass incarceration. Co-hosts Ann and Elizabeth welcome her to the Raising Curious Learners podcast to talk about her work and how we can better support children with inc…
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Much of our content on our podcast focuses on parenting in the States, but we have listeners from all over the globe! As we continue to expand on who we interview, this episode starts by exploring what early learners and parents are facing in the UK. Co-hosts Ann and Elizabeth speak with Polly Crowther, an early educator and cofounder of Early Insi…
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We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo! In this episode, co-hosts Ann and Elizabeth interview Rick Schwartz, spokesperson and ambassador for the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. You'll learn how zoos can be an important tool for kids in educating them about animals and the environment, and even discover some fun similarities between how humans and animal…
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Our podcast is called “Raising Curious Learners” because at Britannica for Parents we believe that nurturing a lifelong love of learning is one of the most important things that parents, teachers, and caregivers can do for children. It’s hard to think of any skill that’s more essential to learning than reading. Becoming a confident, fluent reader i…
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As young children grow, they begin to play with language. Everyday they are learning new words and new ways to communicate, and it's typical for kids to try these new words out in conversation. In this episode, hosts Ann and Elizabeth talk with parents Ben Elliff and Maggie Cassidy about their son and the funny ways he is exploring language. See Pr…
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Childcare companies have had to adapt significantly in the past year. In this episode, host Ann Gadzikowski has a conversation with Ron Spreeuwenberg, CEO of the number one rated childcare app HiMama, about how his company has changed since the start of COVID-19 while also staying true to their company's core values. See Privacy Policy at https://a…
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It's not uncommon for young kids to have sensitivities to certain stimuli, such as loud noises, bright lights, strong smells, or rough fabrics. Erin Anderson, a pediatric occupational therapist, join hosts Ann and as they cover the listener-requested topic of children's sensory issues. She explains how humans process the world around us through our…
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As part of Encyclopedia Britannica's 250-year legacy of truth, Britannica for Parents is committed to providing accurate information to families. One topic parents are very concerned about is vaccines, especially the new COVID-19 vaccine. To help parents identify and avoid myths and misinformation about health and vaccines, hosts Ann and Elizabeth …
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Countless books, websites, podcasts, and other media exist to guide people raising children. If our Raising Curious Learners co-host Ann could recommend only one book on parenting, it would be The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children. In this episode, the …
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Doing everything from home during COVID-19 means that parents have had to blend their work and family lives together in ways like never before. Simply coping with this transition is a triumph on its own, so our hosts were particularly impressed by a family with young children that has been able to turn these trying times into something wonderful. S…
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