Hey everybody. It's Jake Sons. I host, Jane Gino podcast here with my co-host, the multifamily mentor, the coach chef, the five or six, the best signed author, The G-Dady.

Gino, Barbara, how's it going?

Jake, I'm doing good. We're going into uncharted waters this morning. So I hope you have your little seatbelt on. I hope you buckle up and we're going to have a good time today. Going into the North Sea with the wooden ship right now, Gino. We got a good one today. Today's guest is a managing partner at blockchain founders fund,

UN consultant, award-winning author, A Schwartzman scholar, and NCD MBA. He mentors elite accelerator,

sits on public boards and champions global Web3 innovation through investing in the ecosystem

building. We're going to have to unpack this, Gino. It's a little above our pay grade. So without further ado, Ali Medhagi, welcome to show. Thank you so much for having me.

Glad to be here. Hey, it is our pleasure. And I'll just going to be honest with you. I can't even,

you know, get the courage to go to a local HOA meeting. And I'm seeing like this, this resume here. Are you running for Congress or something? What is, what is, what is this, this amount of activities incredible? Thank you. I mean, nobody likes those HOA meetings, right? So I would, I would shy away from those two, but, uh, but no, I mean, I just, I love what I do, right? And, you know, I think a big part of it is, you know, having an impact, working on things that you believe can help change the world and make it better. And I just love working with incredible entrepreneurs, uh, to help make the world a better place. So Jake's simple question is he still doesn't know what you do. I think after reading the

next thing, he's like trying to get there. He doesn't go to HOA meetings. So that's one thing. So what does

Ali do? Well, there's too much emotion there, Gino. Well, there is. That's right. That is true.

I mean, in the simplest form, right? So we run a venture capital firm, which means, you know,

we basically go invest in

incredible ideas that we think have the possibility to go change the world and build into an

incredible business. And so, you know, we now have 200 portfolio companies around the world. And,

you know, it spans a lot of different areas. And it's, you know, oftentimes we're investing in these founders pre-revenue. So they've got an idea. They probably haven't launched it yet. They don't have product market fit yet. You know, sometimes it's a little bit before, sometimes it's a little bit after. And, you know, we help those founders to help make their visions a reality. What's the most exciting venture you've done in the last 24 months that you've seen

that could have made the biggest amount of impact in the next several years?

Yeah.

So, I mean, there's a number of them that come in mind,

but one in particular, we invest in a company called Credit, so K-R-E-D-E-T-E.

And, you know, this was a company that, you know, came in cold onto our website, basically just sent us information. You know, we didn't know the founder. And I came across in our system. My message to the founder said, hey, let's meet up. I'd love to, you know, get to know what you're doing. You told us, hey, I'm dropping out of Harvard Business School. I've, you know, been starting this business. We're starting at some pretty good traction. We're basically helping to move money cross-border between the U.S. and Africa and helping to build software for banks and microfinance banks to help issue loans more effectively on USC rails, right? So much more stable, getting away from a lot of the volatility risk that you have in countries

that don't have necessarily strong currencies or currencies that are, you know, don't have proper

governance or controls around them, let's call it. And, you know, in the past 20 months, so we've only backed them about 20 months ago,

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