#40 Understanding lending protocols with Jeff Wu from Notional Finance.

Welcome to the ‘How to be moderately successful’ podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott, Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. In this show we explore FinTech. We look at how to build better products, better businesses and how to work on yourself to be as effective as possible in your life. Today I’m joined by Jeff Wu, co-founder and CTO of Notional Finance, a new decentralized lending protocol. We will be talking about Defi and his journey to where he is today.Jeff Wu has a BA in mathematics and studied at Stanford.He’s worked as a software engineer for many years including 6 years at Atlassian where his last role was Engineering manager of the analytics and integration teamHe then went on to SPlunk as a senior product manager working on blockchain focused products which led him to his current project which is the co-founder and CTO of Notional Finance.Notional is a decentralized protocol for fixed rate lending built on Ethereum. They recently closed their series A round of $10m which included investment from Panterra Capital which is one of the leading blockchain focused VC firms.***Thanks for listening to the ‘How to be Moderately Successful’ podcast. This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products, and a better version of yourself.Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital. Building a FinTech business is difficult and building the software that enables that business, that scales and that your users love is very difficult.In today's hyper-competitive environment, getting your software built right really matters, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next deal, and making the impact that you need to make. This is where Nona can help.With an excellent track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.We’re small enough so that you are always close to the principals but big enough to be able to deliver at the highest standards consistently without KPD’s. We have deep expertise in FinTech, and particularly in Blockchain application development.So, if you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you. Head over to our website to book a call directly with one of the principals.We are actively hiring senior developers and technical leads and are offering a very decent reward for any referrals. If you know any senior developers that might be a good fit for Nona, please get in touch and there might be a meaningful reward in it for you. We get a lot of messages to thank us and our guests for the content that we put out which I can only assume means that you are getting value from the podcast.  If you’d like to support us then please do give us a rating and review.I’ll be back next week with another episode to help you build better businesses, better fintech products, and a better you.Follow Nona Digital - LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube