Mike Cagney, Co-Founder & CEO of Figure: The Inevitable Automation of Blockchain in Finance

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mike Cagney is the Co-Founder & CEO of Figure, a financial technology company leveraging Blockchain and analytics to deliver better financial products. In this conversation, Mike and Anthony Pompliano discuss how Figure works, why it is growing so quickly, where Blockchain makes sense in the traditional financial system, and why Mike thinks there is such a big opportunity for automation in finance. -----BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and receive a USD loan funded directly to your bank account. They do loans ranging from $2,000 to $10,000,000, and they're perfect for helping you reach your financial goals of all sizes. Visit BlockFi.com/Pomp to learn more about putting your crypto to work without having to sell it. -----If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe.This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to Off the Chain, simply the best podcast in crypto. Let's kick this thing off.
0:12.6	Mike Cagney is the founder of Figure, a financial technology company leveraging blockchain and analytics to deliver better financial products.
0:20.7	In this conversation, we discussed how Figure works, why it is growing so quickly, where blockchain
0:26.6	makes sense in the traditional financial system, and why Mike thinks there is such a big
0:30.4	opportunity for automation and finance. Mike's one of my favorite people we've ever brought
0:34.9	on the podcast, and I really enjoyed this conversation.
0:37.9	I hope you do as well.
0:40.3	Before we kick off this podcast, first a word from our sponsor BlockFi.
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1:10.4	I highly suggest you go check
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1:17.6	earning crypto today. Anthony Pompliano is a partner at Morgan Creek Digital. All opinions
1:23.0	expressed by Pomp or his guests on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions
1:28.2	of Morgan Creek Digital or Morgan Creek Capital Management. You should not treat any opinion
1:32.8	expressed by Pomp as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular
1:38.4	strategy, but only as an expression of his opinion. This podcast is for informational purposes
1:44.0	only.
1:45.2	All right, guys.
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