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Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed

Welcome to the Searching for Mana show in association with the London Stock Exchange, the leading podcast that interviews tech's most influential leaders, innovators and disruptors to discover their mana – the superpower that has helped them to succeed. Hosted by Lloyd Wahed, co-founder of the Mana group, which is focused on building the future of work via their search, lab and venture business, the podcast is a must-see/listen for industry insiders, established or budding entrepreneurs, or anyone with an interest in the most exciting and dynamic sector in the world.

Benedict Macon-Cooney, Chief AI & Innovation Officer at the Tony Blair Institute | Reimagining the State in the Age of AI

68 hours 38 mins; April 02, 2026

Yoni Assia, Founder & CEO of eToro | Gen Z, Crypto, and the $100 Trillion Wealth Shift

21 mins; February 25, 2026

Paul Abrahimzadeh, Partner at 1789 Capital | Investing in America's Future: AI, Defense, and Beyond

30 mins; February 04, 2026

Maja Vujinovic, CEO & Co-Founder of FG Nexus | Forging Resilient Paths and Strategic Growth in the Future of Blockchain

70 hours 40 mins; October 21, 2025

Kyle Samani, Multicoin Capital & Chairman of Forward Industries | Defining the Future of Internet Capital Markets

57 mins; October 09, 2025

Kevin de Patoul, CEO & Co-Founder of Keyrock | From Market Making to Global Scale: The Digital Asset Revolution

75 hours 6 mins; September 05, 2025

Sandy Kaul, Head of Innovation at Franklin Templeton | Visionary Insights: Tokenisation and Financial Evolution

73 hours 1 min; August 21, 2025

The Uber of Payments - Steffen Vollert, Co-founder and CEO of Volt.io on Culture, Crypto & Consistency

34 mins; June 04, 2025

Stani Kulechov, Founder & CEO of Avara | The Original Architect of DeFi

73 hours 4 mins; May 06, 2025

Mishal Kanoo, Chairman of The Kanoo Group | Legacy, Innovation, and Dubai’s Tech Revolution

112 hours 33 mins; March 19, 2025

Frederik Gregaard, CEO of Cardano Foundation | Never Down: Blockchain’s Next Frontier

76 hours 54 mins; March 05, 2025

Lily Liu, President of Solana Foundation | How Blockchain Enables the Financialisation of Scarcity

71 hours 56 mins; October 28, 2024

Robin Gilthorpe, CEO of Earnix | The AI-Driven Future of Insurance

40 mins; October 02, 2024

Jeremy Allaire, Founder & CEO of Circle | USDC: The Stablecoin Revolutionising the Financial Ecosystem

69 hours 38 mins; July 11, 2024

Mo Shaikh, CEO and Founder Of Aptos | Revolutionising Global Monetary Transactions

62 hours 46 mins; June 12, 2024

James Hickman, CCO of Ecospend | Ecospend's Journey to Government Partnership

28 mins; May 29, 2024

Cathie Wood, CEO and Founder of Ark Invest | Disruptive Technologies: Redefining the Global Economy

81 hours 9 mins; May 01, 2024

Tim Draper, Venture Capitalist | Tomorrow's Tech Titans: AI, Bitcoin and Investments

50 mins; April 16, 2024

CEO of Animoca, Robby Yung | Blockchain and Web 3 in Gaming Industry

64 hours 52 mins; March 27, 2024

Sidney Powell, Maple - The State Of On-Chain Lending | The Missing Link

50 mins; February 26, 2024

The Missing Link | 2023 Recap - Episode 13

33 mins; January 19, 2024

CEO & Founder of Root, Louw Hopley | Changing the Game in Insurance Technology

51 mins; January 04, 2024

Erik Voorhees, Private Investor

62 hours 3 mins; December 20, 2023

CEO & Founder of Uncapped, Piotr Pisarz | Helping founders win through fast flexible finance

29 mins; December 14, 2023

Head of Product, Visa Cross-Border Solutions - Piers Marais | Searching for Mana

52 mins; December 06, 2023

The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Martin Carrica, Mountain Protocol

42 mins; November 28, 2023

Flying into Overlooked Areas: Inside Silverbird's Revolution in Finance | Searching for Mana

52 mins; October 31, 2023

The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Mona Tiesler, Tokentus Investment

40 mins; October 20, 2023

Blockchain and Beyond: Fintech Evolution as Viewed by Daniel Seifert | Searching For Mana

59 mins; October 10, 2023

"A New Era: UK's Emergence as a Web 3.0 Superpower"

19 mins; October 10, 2023

Blockchain and Beyond: Fintech Evolution as Viewed by Daniel Seifert | Searching For Mana

60 hours 50 mins; October 10, 2023

The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Brian Mosoff, Ether Capital

45 mins; October 02, 2023

WorkMotion: Reshaping Talent Acquisition Across Borders | Searching for Mana Future Of Work

60 hours 55 mins; September 28, 2023

The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Sebastian Banescu, Chainproof

40 mins; September 26, 2023

The future of hiring: will technology and AI help us? | Searching for Mana Future Of Work

49 mins; September 12, 2023

Searching for Mana FinTech | Michael Whitehead, Freemarket

53 mins; August 29, 2023

The Next Frontier of the Future of Work | Ben Wright, Founder & Executive Chairman, Velocity Global

57 mins; August 01, 2023

The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Dan Thomson, InsurAce

46 mins; July 18, 2023

Hybrid Financial Planning | Ruth Handcock, CEO, Octopus Money

68 hours 6 mins; July 11, 2023

Superhuman Financial Wellbeing | Barney Hussey-Yeo, Founder & CEO, Cleo

63 hours 35 mins; July 04, 2023

Creating Trust in Blockchain | Pratima Arora, Chief Product Officer, Chainalysis

65 hours 5 mins; June 27, 2023

The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana | Episode 6

38 mins; June 20, 2023

Searching for Mana FinTech Episode 0 | Tom McGillycuddy, Circa5000

35 mins; June 14, 2023

Scalable Philanthropy - The Future of Work | Tony Jamous, CEO & Founder, Oyster

71 hours 20 mins; May 30, 2023

The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Jaskanwar Singh, UnoRe

36 mins; May 16, 2023

The Future of Work: Introduction

21 mins; May 16, 2023

The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Alex Thorn, Galaxy

48 mins; April 18, 2023

Building the Culture of a FinTech Unicorn | Laura Spiekerman, Co-Founder & President, Alloy

68 hours 0 mins; April 11, 2023

A Masterclass in Building a Startup and Writing Headlines | Veronica Wong, CEO & Co-Founder, SafePal

99 hours 41 mins; April 04, 2023

Accelerating Web3 & the Metaverse | Jamie Burke, CEO & Founder, Outlier Ventures

73 hours 12 mins; March 28, 2023

The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Kain Warwick, Synthetix

43 mins; March 21, 2023

The Future of Fraud, Crypto and AI | Soups Ranjan, CEO & Founder, Sardine

69 hours 39 mins; February 28, 2023

The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Kevin de Patoul

33 mins; February 21, 2023

Why Crypto Needs Insurance | Dan Roberts, CEO Nayms

74 hours 25 mins; January 24, 2023

The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Steven Becker, UDHC

42 mins; January 17, 2023

The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Meet Your Hosts

21 mins; January 17, 2023

Unlocking Financial Freedom for Everyone, Head of Plaid Europe Ripsy Bandourian

66 hours 28 mins; November 29, 2022

Pascal Gauthier, Ledger: On a pathway to hiring Apple CEO Tim Cook?

65 hours 29 mins; November 01, 2022

Creating more liquidity in private markets, Martijn de Wever, CEO Floww

81 hours 44 mins; October 18, 2022

Building the Future of E-Commerce, Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla

59 mins; October 11, 2022

0 to Unicorn in 5 months | Austin Allison | CEO, Pacaso

66 hours 39 mins; October 04, 2022

Blockchain will become like a public good | Solana CEO, Anatoly Yakovenko

59 mins; September 20, 2022

Working for and backing generational businesses | Amy Wu | Head of Ventures, FTX

60 hours 1 min; September 13, 2022

Achieving perfect founder-market fit | Diogo Monica, Co-Founder, Anchorage Digital

61 hours 23 mins; September 06, 2022

“The person who saw the future of music and steered the industry” | Mike Weissman, CEO SoundCloud

50 mins; August 30, 2022

The Art of Storytelling Within Tech | David Shriver, Head of Communications, Ocado Group

67 hours 32 mins; August 23, 2022

Bringing a Billion People to Web3 | Illia Polosukhin, CEO, NEAR Protocol

76 hours 53 mins; August 16, 2022

Changing the World through Crypto & Safe-Keeping the World of Finance | Michael Gronager, CEO, Chainalysis

86 hours 4 mins; August 09, 2022

Building for the long-term in Blockchain | Sendi Young, European MD, Ripple

43 mins; July 21, 2022

The State of Diversity within FinTech & VC, Eileen Burbidge, Founding Partner Passion Capital

45 mins; July 19, 2022

Why I love recessions and what the military taught me, Arik Shtilman, Co-founder Rapyd

44 mins; July 05, 2022

Clinically Inappropriate Obsessiveness and Open Mic Comedy Nights, Wei Lei, Chief Investment Strategist, BlackRock

85 hours 47 mins; June 20, 2022

Sweatcoin: the answer to nature’s orgasm failure, Oleg Fomenko, Founder Sweatcoin

68 hours 0 mins; June 13, 2022

Failure to code led to success in tech, Marieke Flament, CEO NEAR foundation

51 mins; June 07, 2022

"While I'm still learning, I'm very happy" - Rodolphe Ardant's Mantra - Founder, CEO of French Unicorn Spendesk

33 mins; May 23, 2022

The next Beeple? A programmable NFT that anyone can edit 👨‍🎨 / Andrea Bonaceto, Artist

38 mins; May 20, 2022

'Stay small and nimble', Brett Harrison, president FTX.US

52 mins; May 17, 2022

Europe's fastest growing unicorn 🦄 | Philip Belamant, Zilch

63 hours 30 mins; December 22, 2021

The Future of Blockchain: Green and Community Governed | Arthur & Kathleen Breitman, Tezos

55 mins; November 30, 2021

Blockchain with A Carbon-Negative Network | Sean Lee, Algorand

60 hours 28 mins; November 23, 2021

Investing made social | Benjamin Chemla, Shares

52 mins; November 16, 2021

Betting on true leadership as an entrepreneur | Jason Trost, Smarkets

59 mins; November 09, 2021

A unicorn in the fragmented world of payments | Claire Gates, ppro

46 mins; October 19, 2021

The rise of the Gen Z investor | Yorick Naeff, Bux

62 hours 49 mins; October 12, 2021

Full-stack banking as a service | David Jarvis, Griffin

53 mins; October 05, 2021

Trust, Tink and a global fintech opportunity | Rafa Plantier, Tink

67 hours 30 mins; September 28, 2021

Powering fintechs behind the scenes | Myles Stephenson, Modulr

59 mins; September 21, 2021

The last thing we want to do is chase a fad or chase some hype | Julian Sawyer, Bitstamp

51 mins; September 07, 2021

Hacking into blockchain due diligence | Kamil Gorski, Tokenguard

42 mins; August 31, 2021

Enabling the future: Green Finance | Fireside Chat Fintech Week London 2021 | Romina Savova, PensionBee | Joe Parkin, Blackrock

21 mins; August 24, 2021

39 mins; August 17, 2021

The crypto platform with 8 million customers | Sam Kopelman, Luno

54 mins; August 10, 2021

Why is the mortgage industry so archaic? | Richard Hayes, Mojo Mortgages

53 mins; July 27, 2021

Do you know where your pension is invested? | Chris Eastwood, Penfold

46 mins; July 20, 2021

Fintech London Week: Fintech for the public good | Lord Holmes, MBE, House of Lords

52 mins; July 13, 2021

Should DeFi be regulated? | Jakub Zakrzewski, Kraken

45 mins; June 29, 2021

The future of software development | Nicholas Mills, CircleCI

63 hours 32 mins; June 15, 2021

UK banking's most eccentric founder/ceo opens up | Mark Mullen, Atom Bank

41 mins; June 08, 2021

For entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs (a Silicon Valley VC & a Dragon Den’s Investor) | Andrew D'Souza, Clearco

60 hours 46 mins; May 27, 2021

"All you need is curve" - the world's slimmest wallet | Shachar Bialick, Curve

64 hours 37 mins; May 18, 2021

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