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Now displaying: August, 2017
Aug 28, 2017

Chris is an entrepreneur who has invented a better way to navigate by taking on the address, GPS and postal space. He’s divided up the world into 57 trillion 3m squares and assigned 3 words to each one - a giant grid and the simplest way to communicate a location.

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Aug 20, 2017

Join Cedric Dahl, an early investor in Bitcoin who has the classic story of being in right place at the right time.

After buying bitcoins in Starbucks for himself, he helped friends get in on the action, then angel investors and finally VC firms. He went on to found Buttercoin- a bitcoin exchange taking on the financial regulation systems. Not averse to failure, nor volatility we’ll hear his tales from Silicon Valley, starting then folding Buttercoin and understand the new world order of cryptocurrency. In this episode, we’ll journey through:
- How the internet is becoming distributed
- His views on the next protocol to hit mass adoption
- The case for why bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are a better savings investment
- Lastly, his approach to rejection- he’s done more interviews at Y Combinator- the infamous Silicon Valley incubator- than any other human on the planet!

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Aug 14, 2017

"It was only music, it was only grime... poetry was my way to tell stories to my peers."
A lyrical genius - Suli is on a mission to express his views on education, politics, work and other social norms- a refreshing voice for the youth. 

Suli rose to the public eye on YouTube after launching a viral video titles ‘Why I Hate School but love Education’. His love for the lost art of poetry has earned a reputation as hard-hitting, poignant and thought provoking. His efforts have been rewarded with a diverse fan base- performances at TED Global and London last his sold-out headline show, Not A Role Model.

Lastly...listen to how he stalked his way to have breakfast with Will Smith- actually Will stalked him to be fair…. Enjoy!

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