Fintech & Web3 Career Advice from Simon Vans-Colina who was on the Founding team of Monzo, CTO and co-founder of Fronted, Founder of TreeDAO and now working at BigPay

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Simon Vans-Colina has been at the forefront of fintech for over 20 years.
He started coding at 11, he found working at a bank boring , he was on the founding team of Monzo (the UK neobank unicorn), he is CTO and co-founder of Fronted, Founder of TreeDAO and is now moving to Singapore to join BigPay. He loves defi and web3.
Hear Simons thoughts on:
- Startups and why you need to be a generalist
- How the lines of fintech are blurring
- The massive opportunity in fintech, web3 and the metaverse
- DAOs and NFTs
- How to pick your 'elevator'
- What skills you should acquire to stand out
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Chapters

1. Fintech & Web3 Career Advice from Simon Vans-Colina who was on the Founding team of Monzo, CTO and co-founder of Fronted, Founder of TreeDAO and now working at BigPay (00:00:00)

2. How Simon started out coding at 11 (00:00:56)

3. Working for a bank is unbelievably boring (00:02:22)

4. In startups you have to wear many hats - you are a generalist (00:04:40)

5. A CTO's role isnt always just technical (00:07:32)

6. The lines of fintech are blurring - what is fintech and what is not will be hard to tell (00:14:52)

7. The power of decentralized web3 technology (00:16:56)

8. We value things that are digital more than what is not digital (00:18:17)

9. Im pretty bullish on the metaverse (00:19:23)

10. The massive opportunity in fintech and web3 (00:21:50)

11. I am convinced that the world brought about by web3/defi/nft is a better place (00:23:07)

12. DAOs, the future that web3 enables (00:24:08)

13. Skills that can help you stand out from the crowd in a web3 world (00:27:43)

14. Every generation has an elevator - you just have to pick the right one (00:32:04)

15. Its never been easier to start a company then right now (00:34:36)