Episode #50 - Lex Sokolin, ConsenSys: Defi-ning the next financial system

We were super-excited to welcome Lex Sokolin, the Co-Head of FinTech at ConsenSys, *the* venture studio in the Ethereum ecosystem, as our honorable guest for our 50th anniversary podcast. 

Lex is a New York & London entrepreneur with senior operating and board-level FinTech experience (i.e., thick scar tissue) in digital advice, personal finance, and wealth management. He has held a variety of roles on Wall Street (with Lehman Brothers, Barclays, and Deutsche Bank), but also hand-coded websites and programmed generative abstract art. Lex founded the FinTech practice at Autonomous, a financial services equity research firm (acquired by Alliance Bernstein), where he focused on artificial intelligence, blockchain, and mixed reality. Previously, he was the COO and led product design / corporate development at AdvisorEngine, a wealth management platform built on roboadvisor DNA. He was also CEO of NestEgg, a roboadvisor focused on delivering financial advice algorithmically, which he founded while getting a JD/MBA from Columbia, and which got acquired by AdvisorEngine.

In our conversation, we touch upon

- The environment for entrepreneurship in the FinTech ecosystem

- What the frontier of Finance is, where all the "crazy stuff" happens

- What is everybody else doing to catch up?

- How Simplicity breeds Complexity in Finance

- The Chinese threat to US & USD dominance

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