Squashing the Market with Bill Ullman

In this episode of “Squashing the Market,” Bill Ullman welcomes FinTech CEO Margaret Hartigan to the studio. Margaret discusses her journey from top performing financial advisor at Merrill Lynch to Founder and CEO of Marstone, a New York City based financial technology company. Marstone provides software to financial institutions to help power their digital wealth solutions while enabling those companies to attract and retain clients and reduce costs. A member of the Milken FinTech Advisory Committee, Margaret is not only an expert in FinTech but a leading voice for women in technology and finance.
Produced by Sam Swanson. Music by Alex Atchley.

After a 2 year hiatus, Squashing the Market is back with its first foreign FinTech entrepreneur. Host Bill Ullman talks with Andreas Kern, Founder and CEO of Vienna, Austria-based wikifolio. Wikifolio is a company and platform that enables investors worldwide to gain insights into European stocks and trading ideas. Individuals can create virtual portfolios and compare their performance to top traders, free of charge. Wikifolio's "secret sauce" turns these virtual portfolios into exchange-traded notes (wikifolio ETNs) that replicate the performance of the portfolios. Investors can sort and search through over 9,000 investable ETNs and over 30,000 wikifolio strategies on the wikifolio.com platform. Wikifolio has over $600 million of assets in wikifolio strategies, has built a community of nearly half a million users, and has generated over $50 billion of trading since inception. Andreas is a thoughtful business leader and has built, quite frankly, a very "American" social trading platform from Vienna, Austria. Wikifolio is a unique and exciting story with global potential.
Edited by Sam Swanson. Music by Alex Atchley.

In this latest episode, Squashing the Markets host Bill Ullman talks to Matt Burton, Partner at QED Investors, one of the most important FinTech Venture Capital firms globally. The podcast was recorded live on June 10 from the Coindesk Podcast Studio in the Main Exhibition Hall at the Consensus 2022 Conference in Austin, Texas - a conference which drew more than 15,000 attendees from over 120 countries. The level of interest in Bitcoin, crypto and blockchain technologies remains vibrant and growing. Cryptocurrencies have undergone a rather severe market correction recently. Matt Burton shares his insights and experience regarding investing in crypto and crypto companies on this podcast, discussing its global appeal and what it takes to be a successful player in this dynamic industry.
Edited by Sam Swanson. Music by Alex Atchley.

From the home studio in Brooklyn, Bill Ullman talks with David Klein, Founder and CEO of CommonBond, one of the leading financial technology and student lending companies in America in this latest “Squashing the Market” podcast. Bill and David discuss a wide range of topics including how and why David started this student lending company while still an MBA candidate at Wharton, how he grew CommonBond into one of the largest student lenders with over $4 billion of loans originated, how he has managed a large and complex organization through the Covid-19 pandemic and the current crises in student debt and exorbitant college tuition levels. David is a thoughtful entrepreneur and visionary FinTech leader. CommonBond has helped tens of thousands of students, saving them hundreds of millions of dollars of interest expense annually. Recently, the Company was ranked #1 Most Innovative Company in Education by FastCompany. David earned his MBA from the Wharton School and is a graduate of Brandeis University. He is a Trustee of the Bronx Charter School for the Arts and member of the Forbes Finance Council.
Produced, engineered, and edited by Sam Swanson. Music by Alex Atchley.

Bill invites “rocket scientist” Jeff Glickman to the studio for this latest episode of “Squashing the Market." Bill and Jeff explore one of the most complex and intriguing topics in finance and technology today: the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its use in the investment world. Jeff is uniquely positioned to explain this topic. An information systems guru, Jeff built his first computer at age nine. At age sixteen, he taught semiconductor physics at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaigne. He has delivered advanced technology and services to a range of organizations including The Department of Defense, Ford Motor Company, The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery and NASA, among many others. Most of Jeff’s work has been in artificial and machine intelligence, image processing and pattern recognition. He holds approximately 50 patents in multiple disciplines including machine intelligence, computer architecture, communications and pattern recognition. Jeff is the founder and CEO of J4 Capital, a Registered Investment Advisor that uses AI and machine learning to implement its investment strategy. Produced, engineered, and edited by Sam Swanson. Music by Alex Atchley.