#43 CryptoManRan: Crypto potential and the power of networks.

Welcome to the ‘How to be Moderately Successful’ podcast. I’m your host Mike Scott, and also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. In this podcast we explore FinTech and the founders that power it. We look at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be more successful. Before I even begin I need to stipulate that nothing in this podcast constitutes financial advice and any investment decisions that you might make are your own and you should do your own research. A quick note: we are going to be rebranding the show soon to ‘The FinTech Founder Journey’ so just a heads up on that when you see your feed changing.Today I’m joined by Ran Neuner or as his 263k twitter followers and 326k YouTube subscribers know him, CryptomanRan. We’ll be discussing his journey from building and selling the largest sales and marketing agency in South Africa to becoming a global crypto influencer.Ran is a seriously impressive operator. He co-founded and built The Creative Counsel Group which was the largest sales and marketing agency in South Africa. The group was acquired by the Publicis Groupe in 2015, a deal that was at the time the largest acquisition transaction in Africa. In 2017 he launched the Crypto Trader which was the world's first televised cryptocurrency show featured on CNBC and now runs the YouTube channel Crypto Banter which is absolutely blowing up.He has been considered one of the 10 most influential people in blockchain and for good reason. In my mind Ran is one of the people that is doing real work to legitimise the space which is so necessary. Ran holds a degree in Finance as well as a CFA qualification, is razor sharp and brings an energy that is seemingly limitless.***If you are getting value from the podcast please show your support by doing two things:Give us a rating and a review. Go to https://ratethispodcast.com/howtobemoderatelysuccessful. If you think that someone would get value from this podcast please share it with them. ***This Podcast is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.We are an expert firm that consults on, designs and develops software for FinTech companies around the world. Working with us you get access to a deeply skilled and experienced FinTech design and development team with a particularly deep experience level in blockchain. You get the benefit of a team that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals.And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.To get in touch with one of our principals to see how we can help your FinTech project to accelerate and succeed, head over to https://nona.digital/# to book a consultation directly.***Thanks for listening to the show. I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore 'The FinTech Founder Journey'.FOLLOW NONA DIGITAL: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube