EP#6: Sending Money Freely -- Sara Drakeley
LIFT
English - September 22, 2023 17:46 - 45 minutes - 62.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBusiness Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Sending Money Freely with Sara Drakeley, CEO of MobileCoin
Episode 6: Show Notes
Welcome back to another episode of the Allison Taylor LIFT Podcast. In our sixth episode, Allison discusses leadership in technology, specifically the nascent cryptocurrency market, with Sara Drakeley, CEO of MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency payment application that runs on the blockchain. The discussion centers on Sara’s mission to reimagine payments from the ground up and her vision of sending money as easily as sending a text, anywhere in the world, instantly, securely – and at a minimum of cost. Sara also shares her unconventional leadership journey from technical director at Disney Animation Studios in Los Angeles to New York as a Wall Street hedge fund software engineer, and then back to California where she landed as third engineer at MobileCoin. After becoming CEO in five years, Sara shares her leadership style and also unveils life as a female millennial CEO in a predominantly male-dominated technology environment, and how trust with her team has enabled her to take time off for maternity leave. Thank you for listening in.
Key Points From This Episode:
• Insight into Sara’s new role as CEO of MobileCoin.
• What MobileCoin does and what its mission is.
• Sara tells us all about her studies, vast experience, and non-linear career.
• How she carried the robustness she learned working on Wall Street throughout her career.
• Ways that authenticity has brought Sara joy and success in her career.
• How the concept of “learning how to catch up” relates to AI.
• Sara's leadership style (and how she incorporates math!)
• Why MobileCoin’s payment landscape is different from any other.
• The criminal challenge in this industry and how MobileCoin is addressing it.
• A look at MobileCoin’s business model and their mobile app, Moby.
• Sara’s advice for inspiring engineers and CEOs: expand your focus!
Tweetables:
“There's something about diving into the way in which money moves and the way in which value moves at a systems level that [is] really impactful.” — @SaraDrakeley [0:06:04]
“If you can back something up with math, then that's the best mitigation you can have.” — @SaraDrakeley [0:09:00]
“Entertainment matters, finance matters, it all matters. It's just [about] the degree of risk tolerance that can be acceptable within that space.” — @allisonthought [0:09:52]
“Ultimately, it's my job to empower my team to help realize the vision that we all share.” — @SaraDrakeley [0:23:47]
“At the end of the day, we need to build a product, get it out there, and make the world a better place.” — @allisonthought [0:44:47]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Discerna Web Site (https://www.discerna.ai)
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