Infinite Games – Crypto Loans in Emerging Markets with Mike Sall of Goldfinch

“I don't think it's necessary to just get all the data all up front, no matter what. It's important to know exactly what questions that data's going to help answer.” – Mike Sall
Mike Sall (@sall) is Co-Founder of Goldfinch, a decentralized credit platform for crypto loans without collateral. Mike previously co-founded Unbox Research, was Head of Data Science at Medium, and served as Product Manager at Adobe.
Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/crypto-loans-emerging-markets-goldfinch-mike-sall-ig-show-notes
Chapters

How Goldfinch is helping entrepreneurs

Mike's background and interest in data science

Mike's experience at Coinbase

The origins of Goldfinch

Why raising capital in emerging markets is so difficult

Assessing comfort levels with borrowing in crypto

Mike's previous businesses and learnings

The Goldfinch Flight Academy

On crypto regulations and compliance

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“I don't think it's necessary to just get all the data all up front, no matter what. It's important to know exactly what questions that data's going to help answer.” – Mike Sall

Mike Sall (@sall) is Co-Founder of Goldfinch, a decentralized credit platform for crypto loans without collateral. Mike previously co-founded Unbox Research, was Head of Data Science at Medium, and served as Product Manager at Adobe.

Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/crypto-loans-emerging-markets-goldfinch-mike-sall-ig-show-notes

Chapters

How Goldfinch is helping entrepreneurs
Mike's background and interest in data science
Mike's experience at Coinbase
The origins of Goldfinch
Why raising capital in emerging markets is so difficult
Assessing comfort levels with borrowing in crypto
Mike's previous businesses and learnings
The Goldfinch Flight Academy
On crypto regulations and compliance

Sign up here for Outlier Debrief, our weekly newsletter that highlights the latest episode, expands on important business and investing concepts, and contains the best of what we read each week.

Follow Outlier Academy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/outlieracademy.

If you loved this episode, please share a quick review on Apple Podcasts.

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