Warbler Labs on Goldfinch
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Today’s guests are Obinna Okwodu and Jaou Toure;
Obinna grew up in Lagos & runs a fintech lender out of Nigeria, he went to the United States for college in 2016 and returned back to the motherland in 2020. He worked at Morgan Stanley in New York & is currently working as a Credit Manager at Warbler Labs.
Jaou is a Mali & France dual citizen who has worked for the World Bank doing investing across continent across sectors, mostly for Francophone West Africa, Kenya and South Africa. She has worked for McKinsey with their B2B elements and is now currently working as the Senior Business Operations Manager at Warbler Labs.
For clarification, Goldfinch is a Warbler Labs product; its a decentralised credit platform for loans without crypto collateral.
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- Tell us your stories, how did you find yourself here today? ✅
- What is Warbler Labs? Can you give us a brief overview? ✅
- Before you answer the next question, I would like to let the listener know that there is a short and sweet explainer video on the Goldfinch Foundation youtube page from 2 months ago, its under 2 minutes long and only gives a brief explanation, so to add a personal touch to that explanation, I am going to ask you both; how did Goldfinch come about, how does it work & who is it geared towards? ✅
- What role does Goldfinch and other players like you play in the space with the current market conditions? Especially when the macro and the very powerful 3 letter organisations are all we keep hearing about? ✅
- What would it take for people a very direct and impactful connection mindset between DeFi and Real World Assets (RWA) for the typical retail investor or would you say we have focused on separating them? ✅
- Web3 & DeFi are extremely important to this new era of finance and freedom that we are going into, what is the fundamental importance to African Economies from a financing lens, is there something here, a particular switch, that could change our economies on a continental scale? ✅
- How does all this fair against the rising cost of capital? ✅
- What new features or elements can you share with Bankless Africa? ✅ connect the world’s capital with the worlds growth
- 3 words to describe how you feel about the space in general ✅
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