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
The VC that sold iZettle for 2.2 Billion to Paypal | Josh Bell, Dawn Capital
The future of money is here as Dawn Capital General Partner Josh Bell sits down with Lloyd to discuss how he finds tomorrow’s behemoths, leading the fund’s Fintech investments.
Josh graduated Oxford U…
Earnings on demand and financial wellbeing | James Herbert, Hastee
James Herbert is the founder and CEOof Hastee - an award-winning earnings on demand technology, offered as a workplace benefit that enables workers to take a portion of their earned pay, on demand, i…
What is SPAC? #IWD special | Betsy Cohen, FinTech Masala
Betsy Cohen is the Chairman of FinTech Masala, a sponsor of numerous Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) also known as blank-check companies - one of the hottest trends on Wall Street. Coll…
Why do startups fail? | Tom Eisenmann, Harvard University
Why 90% of all startups fail? This week, Harvard Professor Tom Eisenmann joins Mimi Nguyen to discuss his new book - The Fail-Safe Startup.
Focusing his research and his MBA class at Harvard Universit…
World’s first climate-aware net zero pension | Ben Pollard, Cushon
Ben Pollard, co-founder and CEO at Cushon, sits down with Lloyd to talk about how his company became the world’s first net zero pension fintech.
After entering the industry as an actuarial consultant,…
Innovation delivered | Lukasz Marczyk, Accenture
This week, Mana Labs co-founder Mimi Nguyen speaks with Lukasz Marczyk from Accenture's Warsaw office. As an innovation leader and part of Accenture's leadership team in Poland, Lukasz discusses his…
Improving founders' mental health | Matus Maar, Talis Capital
This week, Lloyd delves into entrepreneurship and mental health as he welcomes Talis Capital's Matus Maar.
As Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Talis, Matus has overseen early-stage investments in su…
How Google nailed innovation in the mid-2000s | Vaughn Tan, University College London
Mana Labs Co-Founder Mimi Nguyen is in the host's seat this week as she discusses product innovation with University College London's Vaughn Tan.
And Vaughn has a unique perspective on the subject. In…
Blockchain investing: what you need to know | Andrea Bonaceto, Eterna Capital
Eterna Capital Partner Andrea Bonaceto joins Lloyd to talk about blockchain investing.
Since launching in 2018, Eterna has provided seed and early-stage funding to blockchain innovators like Algorand,…
Best Of 2020 Part Two | Romi Savova, Zihao Xu, Alf Rehn, Christian Busch
It was a big year for Searching for Mana, and that means one best-of show wasn’t enough. That’s right: we’re back with another edition of amazing clips from some of the most interesting people in Fin…
Best Of 2020 Part One | Conrad Ford, Joe Parkin, Ned Phillips, Adam French
As 2020 draws to a close, we look back on some of the brightest moments from Searching for Mana over the past year.
And what a line-up it is! Listen through for amazing conversations with FinTech lumi…
Digital currencies: are they inevitable? | Andrzej Horoszczak, Billon
Billon Co-Founder and CTO Andrzej Horoszczak joins Lloyd from Poland to discuss how DLT could lead to the advent of fully digital currencies.
It’s an episode that touches on finance, technology and en…
Can blockchain solve financial inclusion? | Morten Christorp Nielsen, Aryze
Aryze CFO and Co-Founder Morten Christorp Nielsen joins Lloyd to discuss how digital assets have the potential to revolutionise financial inclusion.
After starting his career with such vaunted names a…
The right way to hire product managers | Ayman Jawhar, INSEAD and Rockwae
Mana Labs Co-Founder Mimi Nguyen is in the host’s chair this week as she and Ayman Jawhar tell us how to hire product managers properly.
And who better to ask than Ayman? With product experience at te…
Will crypto end traditional finance? | Alex Mashinsky, Celsius Network
We’ve got blockchain on the brain this week as serial founder Alex Mashinsky sits down with Lloyd to talk DeFi, crypto and so much more.
As Founder and CEO of Arbinet, Alex made his name in the ‘90s a…
How the best CEOs make their own luck | Christian Busch, NYU and World Economic Forum
Luck is on your side this week as NYU and LSE faculty member Christian Busch joins Lloyd to discuss his new book, The Serendipity Mindset.
The Director of NYU’s Global Economy Program, Christian has e…
Is innovation killing your company? | Alf Rehn, University of Southern Denmark
It’s time to get innovative as Lloyd welcomes acclaimed writer and speaker Alf Rehn.
From becoming the youngest university chair in Finland to serving as a chairman to a Gold Lion-winning ad agency, A…
The future of work is multiple jobs | Louise Beaumont, techUK
Dr. Louise Beaumont joins Lloyd for a far-reaching conversation that covers the future of open banking, the history of UK FinTech and everything happening in between.
Louise is an ideal guest to comme…
The traits that make founders successful | Zihao Xu, Octopus Ventures
The future of money is here as Octopus Ventures Partner Zihao Xu sits down with Lloyd to discuss how he finds tomorrow’s fintech behemoths.
After starting his career with renowned strategic consultanc…
Will ESG revolutionise pensions? | Romina Savova, PensionBee
PensionBee Founder and CEO Romina Savova joins Lloyd to examine a sector that’s ripe for disruption: pensions.
That’s the idea behind PensionBee, which Romina founded after working at behemoths like M…