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 Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected] You can also find us on.... Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTech Medium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintech YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintech Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/