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.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 163
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Building the Culture of a FinTech Unicorn | Laura Spiekerman, Co-Founder & President, Alloy
A Masterclass in Building a Startup and Writing Headlines | Veronica Wong, CEO & Co-Founder, SafePal
Accelerating Web3 & the Metaverse | Jamie Burke, CEO & Founder, Outlier Ventures
The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Kain Warwick, Synthetix
The Future of Fraud, Crypto and AI | Soups Ranjan, CEO & Founder, Sardine
The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Kevin de Patoul
Why Crypto Needs Insurance | Dan Roberts, CEO Nayms
The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Steven Becker, UDHC
The Missing Link, a Nayms podcast with Searching for Mana - Meet Your Hosts
Unlocking Financial Freedom for Everyone, Head of Plaid Europe Ripsy Bandourian
This week’s guest on the Searching for Mana show is Head of Plaid Europe, Ripsy Bandourian. A journey from Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Apple and Booking.com has led Ripsy to her most recent role at Plai…
Pascal Gauthier, Ledger: On a pathway to hiring Apple CEO Tim Cook?
On a pathway to hiring Apple CEO Tim Cook? Pascal Gauthier is the CEO and co-founder of Ledger, a global leader in security and infrastructure solutions for cryptocurrencies and blockchain applicatio…
Creating more liquidity in private markets, Martijn de Wever, CEO Floww
Joining Lloyd this week is Floww CEO & FinTech expert Martijn de Wever. Partnered with The London Stock Exchange, Floww provides data to increase transparency & liquidity across private markets.
Form…
Building the Future of E-Commerce, Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla
This week’s podcast episode guest is Bolt Financial CEO Maju Kuruvilla. A former executive at Amazon, where he helped launch Amazon Fresh, Maju has taken over at Bolt to help build the future of e-co…
0 to Unicorn in 5 months | Austin Allison | CEO, Pacaso
Joining Lloyd this week, is Austin Allison, CEO of Pacaso, the fastest-growing tech unicorn of all time.
From humble beginnings, and an unusual path, Austin Allison, founder at Pacaso, has taken an u…
Blockchain will become like a public good | Solana CEO, Anatoly Yakovenko
Joining Lloyd this week is Solana Founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko, in this fascinating, candid and eye-opening episode.
Solana really needs no introduction.
One of the most prominent and popular bl…
Working for and backing generational businesses | Amy Wu | Head of Ventures, FTX
Amy Wu, Head of Ventures, M&A and Gaming at FTX represents one of the best-known and most successful Venture Capitalists in the crypto and web3 spaces.
Having had FTX’s US President Brett Harrison on …
Achieving perfect founder-market fit | Diogo Monica, Co-Founder, Anchorage Digital
Few others’ experiences and career path have left them so destined to found their business, with Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Chris Dixon coining “perfect founder-market fit” to describe him, …
“The person who saw the future of music and steered the industry” | Mike Weissman, CEO SoundCloud
Mike Weissman, CEO of music and tech giant SoundCloud needs no introduction.
Leading one of the most prominent and well-known consumer tech companies on the planet, SoundCloud sits at the forefront of…
The Art of Storytelling Within Tech | David Shriver, Head of Communications, Ocado Group
David Shriver, Head of Communications at Ocado Group, knows how to formulate and tell a story.
Exceptionally eloquent and adept at forming narratives within high-growth tech businesses, David joins L…
Bringing a Billion People to Web3 | Illia Polosukhin, CEO, NEAR Protocol
Illia Polosukhin, Founder & CEO of NEAR Protocol, is this week’s guest on Searching for Mana. Following on from the brilliant earlier episode with Marieke Flamant, Lloyd gets to the bottom of buildin…