EPISODE · May 29, 2026 · 34 MIN
From Blockchain to AI: Building the Infrastructure for Global Credit | Skeps | BII Brunch Lab
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What does it take to build the credit infrastructure the world never got around to fixing?Pankaj and Rohit from BII sit down with Tushar Srivastava, Co-Founder of Skeps — the company building what Visa and Mastercard did for payments, but for lending. Point-of-sale financing was broken: merchants frustrated, banks hesitant, consumers stuck in the middle. Tushar saw the friction and decided to remove it.In this episode, Tushar walks through the founding of Skeps in 2017, navigating the zero-interest-rate era, and why blockchain isn't dead, it's just quietly powering everything as AI comes into power.Also featuring: BII's love of food, and why Pankaj believes that the best deals always get closed over great food and greater conversations, not in a boardroom. The rails are built. Now comes scale.
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What does it take to build the credit infrastructure the world never got around to fixing?Pankaj and Rohit from BII sit down with Tushar Srivastava, Co-Founder of Skeps — the company building what Visa and Mastercard did for payments, but for lending. Point-of-sale financing was broken: merchants frustrated, banks hesitant, consumers stuck in the middle. Tushar saw the friction and decided to remove it.In this episode, Tushar walks through the founding of Skeps in 2017, navigating the zero-interest-rate era, and why blockchain isn't dead, it's just quietly powering everything as AI comes into power.Also featuring: BII's love of food, and why Pankaj believes that the best deals always get closed over great food and greater conversations, not in a boardroom. The rails are built. Now comes scale.
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