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The Curious Learners

Serhat Aydogdu

46 episodes

4 months ago

🎧 New Podcast Episode: Infrastructure at the Heart — Why the Energy Transition Is a Delivery and Business Model Challenge We often hear that clean technologies like solar, wind, and batteries are the key to decarbonisation. But the real challenge isn’t about technological breakthroughs. It’s about delivery, getting projects permitted, financed, built, and connected to systems that weren’t designed for this kind of transformation. In this episode of The Curious Learners, I explore why infrastr...

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🎧 New Podcast Episode: Infrastructure at the Heart — Why the Energy Transition Is a Delivery and Business Model Challenge We often hear that clean technologies like solar, wind, and batteries are the key to decarbonisation. But the real challenge isn’t about technological breakthroughs. It’s about delivery, getting projects permitted, financed, built, and connected to systems that weren’t designed for this kind of transformation. In this episode of The Curious Learners, I explore why infrastr...

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Entrepreneurship

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Infrastructure at the Heart: Why the Energy Transition Is a Delivery and Business Model Challenge. Not Tech. | The Curious Learners Ep. 46

🎧 New Podcast Episode: Infrastructure at the Heart — Why the Energy Transition Is a Delivery and Business Model Challenge We often hear that clean technologies like solar, wind, and batteries are the key to decarbonisation. But the real challenge isn’t about technological breakthroughs. It’s about delivery, getting projects permitted, financed, built, and connected to systems that weren’t designed for this kind of transformation. In this episode of The Curious Learners, I explore why infrastr...

4 months ago

12 minutes

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Beyond Disruption: The Rise of the Quiet Builders | The Curious Learners Ep. 45

In this episode of The Curious Learners, we take a step back from the noise of disruption and zoom in on something more subtle - but just as transformative: the quiet reinvention of the real economy. Across manufacturing floors, supply chains, family businesses, and financial institutions, a less glamorous but more enduring form of innovation is underway. It’s not about tearing industries down; it’s about modernizing them from within. We explore how small and mid-sized - often overlooked in t...

5 months ago

11 minutes

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Resilience in the Age of AI: Transforming Heavy Industry, Energy, and Infrastructure | The Curious Learners Ep. 44

In the latest episode of The Curious Learners, my AI co-hosts and I explore a theme that’s become central to my investing journey: resilience. Not just in the narrow sense of withstanding shocks — but in a broader, more dynamic sense: how our energy systems, industrial processes, and infrastructure can become more adaptive, more efficient, and more climate-aligned in the face of growing uncertainty. And there’s one technology that’s quietly showing up everywhere: Artificial Intelligence. From...

6 months ago

20 minutes

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⚡ Distributed Energy Resources: Powering a Flexible Future | The Curious Learners Ep. 43

Today, my AI co-hosts are exploring the major shifts reshaping the energy landscape: digitalisation, decentralisation, and decarbonisation. Here is the blog post that I published on The Curious Learners. As demand grows and renewables like solar and wind rise, the aging grid faces immense pressure. The solution? A decentralised grid with local energy generation, storage, and demand management, all driven by flexibility. We'll dive into Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), the building blocks ...

7 months ago

15 minutes

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The Power of Real-Time Monitoring: Building Resilience in Critical Sectors

Welcome to another episode of The Curious Learners. I again turn to my AI co-hosts who continue to do great job talking about my posts on The Curious Learners. Today we're exploring a critical landscape where efficiency meets innovation: the world of IT and Operational Technology integration. Imagine a manufacturing plant suddenly grinding to a halt, or a power grid plunging entire cities into darkness. These aren't just hypothetical scenarios—they're real risks in our increasingly connected ...

9 months ago

23 minutes

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Bridging the Funding Chasm for Climate Companies

System companies? What does that even mean! My AI Co-hosts in this latest episode of The Curious Learners do a great job in discussing the funding environment for system companies, i.e. the integration of hardware and software companies. So, what are system companies? System companies integrate hardware (tangible components) and software (intangible solutions). One example that comes to mind is battery storage systems, where the hardware stores energy, and battery management software (BMS) o...

11 months ago

18 minutes

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Electricity Grid Needs a Massive Upgrade (Special Episode)

Join me for an extra special episode on The Curious Learners! It was created using Google's NotebookLM AI tool and my blog post on The Curious Learners (link here)! Today, we're diving into a critical but often overlooked aspect of our path to net zero: the electricity grid. We’ve all heard that electrification is key to decarbonizing industries like transportation and buildings, but what often goes unmentioned is that none of this can happen without a robust transmission network. In today’s...

1 year ago

12 minutes

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Mert Mumtaz | Building for Builders | The Curious Learners Ep. 39

Hi everyone. My guest today is Mert Mumtaz. He is the co-founder and CEO at Helius, which is a developer platform for the Blockchain ecosystem. Mert is not new to crypto. Prior to starting Helius, he spent years at Coinbase building different products across payments and others. Helius currently supports the Solana ecosystem and Mert has been a big supporter of the ecosystem since its early days. Mert and I had a fascinating discussion about the state of Blockchain, Solana vs. other networks...

2 years ago

38 minutes

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Amos Wittenberg | Assessing Risks in Climate Transition | The Curious Learners Ep. 38

Hi everyone. My guest at The Curious Learners is Amos Wittenberg. He is the co-founder of Dovetail. Amos and his co-founder Phillip Marks are building the climate risk modelling toolkit for investors. Dovetail helps to identify and quantify risks and opportunities in the era of climate transition. What Dovetail is building is critical for institutional investors' workflows, investment strategies and decision making. And it goes beyond climate-tech investors of course. Take Oil and Gas as an ...

2 years ago

30 minutes

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Yurii Kyparus | Cashback & MEV Service in Crypto | The Curious Learners Ep. 37

Hi everyone. My guest at The Curious Learners is Yurii Kyparus. He is the co-founder of Wallchain, which is a start-up that addresses the issue of MEV (miner extracted value) in crypto. MEV refers to value extracted from crypto transactions. Wallchain captures this value and returns it back to users. Here are some of the topics that we discussed on the episode: - MEV as a problem and opportunity in crypto - MEV across different chains - Wallchain versus its peers in terms of technology an...

2 years ago

30 minutes

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Sebastian Manhart | Carbon Removal: Where Technology Should Meet Policy | The Curious Learners Ep. 36

Hi everyone. My guest today is Sebastian Manhart. He is the senior policy adviser at Carbonfuture, which is a technology company building an operating system for high quality carbon removals. Sebastian has a super interesting background of over a decade of entrepreneurship and an advisory role with the German government on decentralized identity. His move into climate-tech and more specifically carbon removals is a result of his passion for this space. Sebastian and I had an eye-opening con...

2 years ago

34 minutes

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Peter Grosskopf | Building in Crypto Winter | The Curious Learners Ep. 35

Super excited to have Peter Grosskopf on the first episode of the second season. Peter is the co-founder and CTO of Ultimate Money (core product of Unstoppable Finance), which is one of the most exciting DeFi products out there. His background is unique coming into crypto from a combination of software development and fintech building / operating and incubating. Peter and I had a great conversation about what happened in crypto in 2022, future of DeFi and where Ultimate Money is positio...

2 years ago

42 minutes

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James West | Building the Future of Crypto Exchange | The Curious Learners Ep. 34

Hi everyone. My guest today is James West. He is the CEO of Globe, which is a crypto futures exchange. James and I agreed to talk about building a crypto exchange a while back and we kept rescheduling since then. Finally, by coincidence, we happened to record the episode on the day FTX filed for bankruptcy! We talked about James' take on what really happened at FTX , its impact on confidence in crypto markets and of course what he is building at Globe. Here are some highlights from the show...

2 years ago

34 minutes

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Chris Perkins | Crypto: Where are We Headed? | The Curious Learners Ep. 33

My guest today is Chris Perkins. He is the President of CoinFund, which is a crypto-native investment firm founded in 2015. Chris joined CoinFund in 2021 after spending a long time in traditional finance. He was most recently a managing director at CitiGroup. His experience in traditional finance is very relevant from the perspective of crypto's future as an industry. Chris was deeply involved at the time in the transition of the traditional finance derivatives industry from unregulated to r...

3 years ago

37 minutes

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Kevin Zhang | FX in Decentralized Finance | The Curious Learners Ep. 32

Hi everyone. My guest is Kevin Zhang. He is the co-founder of DFX Finance, a decentralized exchange protocol specifically for stablecoins. Kevin has been in crypto for a long time and his journey into building DFX Finance is not a coincidence. Following his time at Consensys, he went on to build Paytrie, which is a stablecoin exchange based in Canada. In fact, it was this experience that made him see the need for a decentralized exchange designed for stablecoins. Here are some highligh...

3 years ago

33 minutes

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Joshua Frank | Building the Data Layer for Crypto | The Curious Learners Ep. 31

My guest today is Joshua Frank. He is the co-founder and CEO of The Tie, an information services provider for digital assets. Josh and I met some time ago at a crypto conference and I was truly amazed with The Tie product demo back then. On-chain data is usually accessible, however it is never easy to parse it given the different data structures across chains. In addition, converting data to signals and market intelligence for investors' use requires a lot more processing and a deep underst...

3 years ago

41 minutes

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Lubomila Jordanova | Enabling Journey to Sustainability | The Curious Learners Ep. 30

Hi everyone. My guest for the 30th episode of The Curious Learners is Lubomila Jordanova. She is the founder of Plan A, which is a climate-tech company working with businesses and top institutions around the world to help with their sustainability journeys. Prior to starting Plan A, Lubomila had substantial experience in financial services as an investment banker and as a VC investor. She describes her path to Plan A as one with serendipity. However, after seeing her passion for what she doe...

3 years ago

31 minutes

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Evgeny Gokhberg | Building a DeFi Power User | The Curious Learners Ep. 29

My guest today is Evgeny Gokhberg. He is the founder and managing partner of Re7 Capital, which is an investment firm focused on DeFi strategies. Evgeny is not only an investor in DeFi, but also a deep thinker about the technology behind it, the future of crypto and how traditional finance and DeFi would work together to build a whole new financial world. Our conversation touched upon (of course) his entry into crypto, the current state of markets, his firm Re7 Capital and the future of DeF...

3 years ago

38 minutes

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Will Robinson | Accelerating Web3 | The Curious Learners Ep. 28

Hi everyone. My guest today is Will Robinson from Alliance DAO. He is the head of Community at Alliance, where he helps web3 founders build amazing companies. Will was in gaming until his move into crypto in 2017 with the help of a healthy! dose of push from his cousin Dan Robinson. In fact, he is the only person that I know with a PhD in game design. Will and I had an eye-opening discussion (for me of course) on his journey from gaming to Blockchain, knowledge accumulation in crypto...

3 years ago

46 minutes

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Mounir Benchemled | Facilitating Decentralized Finance | The Curious Learners Ep. 27

Hi everyone. My guest today is Mounir Benchemled. He is the founder of Paraswap, which is one of the leading DEX aggregators in crypto markets. Mounir's entry into blockchain dates back to 2013 and he had a front seat to the development of crypto markets since then, first as a user and then builder of DeFi (and this is before it was called DeFi). He is in the camp of founders, who have been frustrated with existing products and decided to build something new. Mounir and I had a deep dive di...

3 years ago

38 minutes