Faisal Khan

Category: Podcast

BBC World Service – 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

A fantastic podcast series put out by the BBC: 50 things That Made the Modern Economy as narrated by Tim Harford. Great listen.  There are two particular episodes of interest: M-PESA (Listen) The Bank (Listen) I think after NPR’s Planet Money, this is perhaps the next best thing I’ve heard. Inventions, ideas and innovations which […]

Around The Coin (Podcast): Episode 35

This week we focused on a few requests from Dustin Byington and Brian Lawe. We responded by giving a few predictions to what Yahoo may do in payments, as they have been notably silent for years. Next we give thoughts on how to grow a Bitcoin Startup, specifically answering these questions... If Bitcoin (crytpo) was [...]

Around The Coin (Podcast): Episode 34 – Apple Pay

The earth quaked the moment Apple released news of their move into the payment landscape with Apple Pay. Some business models were immediately crushed while others were accelerated. Brian and Faisal collectively have written 1000's of answers on payments give us the breakdown of how this announcement will effect us all. Our speakers in this [...]

Around The Coin (Podcast): Episode 33

I am very excited to publish this interview with our guest Nate Stewart, CEO of Zing. Nate tells the story of how ZingCheckout was born, how the company acquired early customers, and what the future of retail commerce looks like. The mission at Zing is to create the future of retail software, starting with the [...]

Around The Coin (Podcast): Episode 32

In this episode we dive deep into the technique and tools the experts use to mine crypto currency. This will part 1 of a multi part series teaching you how to make money mining cryptocurrency. We'll discuss everything you need to get started, what websites you should use to monitor and grow your business as [...]

Around The Coin (Podcast): Episode 31

This episode Cass Phillipps joins Brian, Faisal and Mike on the show. Cass was the creator of FailCon. FailCon is a conference for startup founders to study their own and others' failures and prepare for success. FailCon is produced in over a dozen cities on 6 continents around the globe by people just like you. [...]

Around The Coin (Podcast): Episode 28

On Episode 28 of Around the Coin, Mike Townsend, Brian Roemmele, and Faisal Khan discuss what the CEO of Starbucks is planning to do with the most successful mobile payments app in the world. Also, Amazon’s secret plan to combine same day delivery, payments, and the new Fire phone. Lastly, we discuss the release of the [...]

Around The Coin (Podcast): Episode 22

This week on Around the Coin we’re joined by CEO of Knox Payments, Tommy Nicholas, telling us his strategy to kill Visa and Mastercard. Also, we’ll be discussing the $2.6 billion dollar acquisition of Open Table and the stunning move by David Marcus to quit Paypal and build Facebook’s next generation payment platform.     [...]