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In the latest episode of The Jump Off Point, successful investor, entrepreneur, and creator, Sahil Bloom, sits down with Jump Capital's Saaya Nath to explore the processes that can kickstart a creators’ career, including relentlessly and consistently producing high-quality content and building an engaged, active, loyal community across various channels.

I am Managing Partner of SRB Ventures, an investment firm committed to investing in and accelerating the most compelling startups in the world. Fund I is a $10 million stage and sector-agnostic vehicle writing $50-250K checks into high-growth technology companies globally. Prior to launching the firm in January 2022, I was an early stage investor in 40+ startups across the technology landscape, including multiple unicorns.

Sahil Bloom

Investor, Entrepreneur, Creator

Saaya leads Jump's focus on the creator economy and recently lead our our investment in Koji. Prior to joining Jump, Saaya worked as a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group, where she spent time in the Private Equity practice and across a variety of strategy and operations projects within FinTech, Industrials, AgTech and Consumer Goods.

Saaya attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she earned a BS in Computer Engineering.

Saaya Nath

Investor, Jump Capital

In the latest episode of The Jump Off Point, successful investor, entrepreneur, and creator, Sahil Bloom, sits down with Jump Capital's Saaya Nath to explore the processes that can kickstart a creators’ career, including relentlessly and consistently producing high-quality content and building an engaged, active, loyal community across various channels.


Creator Economy: Kickstarting Your Community with Sahil Bloom

This week on The Jump Off Point: Sahil Bloom, writer, podcaster, and angel investor: discusses the journey of building an audience and keeping them engaged as a content creator. 


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Imagine if you had unfettered access to the people, data patterns, and signals that drive venture investment decisions – as they’re happening. Powered by Jump Capital, The Jump Off Point takes a deep-dive into the trends shaping technology and venture capital investing with thoughtful and candid conversations from industry pioneers themselves. Take the leap, and learn from the people that helped chart the course that today’s most innovative companies are building on. Jump Capital is a thesis-led investment firm focused on a variety of verticals including IT & Data Infrastructure, B2B SaaS, Media, FinTech & Crypto.

The Jump Off Point

This week on the Jump Off Point: Crypto edition, we’ll be welcoming Dave Olsen, President and Chief Investment Officer of Jump Trading Group, and Kanav Kariya, President of Jump Crypto, to discuss the events surrounding the Wormhole hack last week. Dave and Kanav will take you into the room when the hack was identified, walk through the thinking behind replacing 120,000 of stolen ETH, and explain why they believe Wormhole is essential infrastructure for the crypto ecosystem.

In his role as President at Jump Crypto, Kanav is leading the crypto arm of the Jump Trading Group toward the next frontier in digital finance that is crypto infrastructure in defi. Prior to assuming his new role as President, Kanav was positioned as Director of Strategic Initiatives, Digital Assets at Jump. Under Kanav’s direction, Jump Crypto has grown to over 140 employees inclusive of builders, partners and traders from around the world. Former intern turned President, Kanav is the perfect example of success and opportunity in defi. Kanav is a graduate of the University of Illinois and is based in Chicago. 

Kanav Kariya 

President, Jump Crypto

Dave Olsen is the President and Chief Investment Officer of Jump Trading, where he is involved in all aspects of the firm’s activities with particular focus on building strategic partnerships, investing in new markets, and developing solutions to complex post-trade needs. Prior to joining Jump, Dave led J.P. Morgan’s futures, options, and OTC derivative clearing businesses. Dave also had various roles in trading fixed income and derivative instruments, investment grade debt underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, and fintech venture capital investing. Dave is a graduate of Kenyon College and is based in New York City.

Dave Olsen 

President and Chief Investment Officer, Jump Trading Group

This week on a special episode of the Jump Off Point: Crypto, we’ll be welcoming Dave Olsen, President and Chief Investment Officer of Jump Trading Group, and Kanav Kariya, President of Jump Crypto, to discuss the events surrounding the Wormhole hack last week.


Into the Wormhole

This week on the Jump Off Point: Host Jason Felger talks with Jump Capital Co-Founder Sach Chitnis and guest Porter Gale. Porter is an author, business builder, marketer and currently is on the Board of Directors for Reddit. In this episode, Porter helps us navigate the evolution of the FinTech industry, including the upcoming intergenerational wealth transfer, financial influencers and their effect on investing, and the significant change that's still to come to the industry.

A business builder, author and marketer, Porter is a Board Director and C-suite executive who has launched well-known brands (e.g. Virgin America) and been an advisor to over twenty CEOs at companies including RocketFuel (IPO), Accompany (acq. Cisco), WePay (acq. JP Morgan), Vurb (acq. SNAP), Routehappy (acq. APTCO), fitmob (acq. ClassPass), Headnote (acq. ASG LegalTech), UpLift, Michael Mina, Hint Water, Surf Air, Esri and more. She is an Independent Board Director for Reddit (valued at $10B+) and recently led the rebrand of Personal Capital prior to it being acquired by Empower Retirement for $1B. Notably, under Gale's leadership Personal Capital's aided awareness, with mass affluent investors, increased from 7% to 41% post rebrand.

Porter Gale

Experienced investor and operator who loves partnering with great entrepreneurs and companies. Excited about tech and tech-enabled companies; seeking early stage investment opportunities (Seed+ Series A); determined to find like-minded leaders to scale great businesses together.
Always interested in meeting new companies and leaders, especially ones focused on enterprise, data infrastructure, fintech, crypto infrastructure and future of commerce sectors....and definitely ones that know and have proven product-market fit.

Sach Chitnis

Co-Founder & Partner, Jump Capital

In this episode, Porter Gale helps us navigate the evolution of the FinTech industry, including the upcoming intergenerational wealth transfer, financial influencers and their effect on investing, and the significant change that's still to come to the industry.


The Evolution of Finance: Influencers, Crypto, & Investing w/ Porter Gale

This week on The Jump Off Point:&nbsp;Crypto Edition, host Peter Johnson talks with the president of&nbsp;<a href="http://ftx.us/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FTX.US</a>, Brett Harrison. FTX was started as a cryptocurrency exchange as an answer to the existing derivative exchanges in the world. We wanted to learn how&nbsp;<a href="http://ftx.us/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FTX.US</a>&nbsp;went from being a crypto exchange to the pioneer in attaining retail adoption, and Brett helps us explore what led to the broader vision. He shares the opportunities he sees in the crypto community with a discussion on securities, and also introduces us to&nbsp;<a href="http://ftx.us/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FTX.US</a>'s NFT platform and shares what the future holds for the company. Listen now!

Brett Harrison is the President of FTX US, a US-regulated cryptocurrency exchange. Prior to joining FTX US, Brett was Head of Semi-Systematic Technology at Citadel Securities, where he managed technology for the firm’s Options, ETF, OTC, and ADR trading globally. He began and spent the majority of his career at Jane Street, where he led the firm’s algorithmic trading system development. He also previously worked at Headlands Technologies as a senior software developer. Brett received his M.S. and B.A. in Computer Science from Harvard.

Brett Harrison

This week, President of FTX.US Brett Harrison discusses how FTX.US went from a trading platform to an entire conglomerate fueling retail crypto adoption in the US.


FTX.US: A Crypto Future for All ft. Brett Harrison

This week, President of FTX.US Brett Harrison discusses how FTX went from a trading platform to an entire conglomerate fueling retail crypto adoption in the US.


The DeFi Alliance was founded by Imran Khan in March of 2020 with a mission to help DeFi startups get connected with trading firms and eventually grow their network to one billion users by 2025. Imran joins our show to take us on The DeFi Alliance journey to share all we need to know, including what's in store for its future. He shares his background, how he got started in crypto, and what led him to bring the Chicago crypto community together to support startups. Eighteen months later, DeFi Alliance evolved its Accelerator Program to provide domain expertise to help startups build community. Listen now!

Imran Khan

Founder, DeFi Alliance

In the latest episode of our crypto series, Peter Johnson joins Imran Khan, founder of the DeFi Alliance.


DeFi Alliance: Finding Diamonds in the Rough ft. Imran Khan

Imran joins our show to take us on The DeFi Alliance journey to share all we need to know, including what's in store for its future.


Jump Capital's Crypto Co-Lead Saurabh Sharma sits down to talk with Dylan Macalinao, Co-Founder of Saber. One of the earliest Dapps on Solana, Saber has quickly become the largest stablecoin swap in the ecosystem. After reaching $4bn TVL at their peak in record time and an active community behind it, we're excited about what lies ahead for the company. Tune in for a riveting conversation with this multi-talented founder.

Dylan Macalinao is the Co-Founder of Saber, the leading cross-chain stablecoin DEX on Solana.

Prior to Saber, Dylan was an early employee at Pipe, the $2B trading platform for recurring revenues, and a Product Manager at Okcoin. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dylan

Co-Founder of Saber

Saurabh Sharma is a General Partner at Jump Capital and co-leads Jump's investing efforts in crypto. His prior experiences range from product management / operational roles at startups like Groupon and Benchprep to investing / trading roles at Lehman Brothers, Barclays Capital and Lightbank. Saurabh started his career as a High-Performance Computing researcher at French National Institute for Scientific Research, holds a Masters in Computer Science from Cornell University and an MBA from Chicago Booth.

Saurabh Sharma

Partner at Jump Capital & Crypto Co-Lead

Jump Capital's Crypto Co-Lead Saurabh Sharma sits down to talk with Dylan Macalinao, Co-Founder of Saber. One of the earliest Dapps on Solana, Saber has quickly become the largest stablecoin swap in the ecosystem. After reaching $4bn TVL at their peak in record time and an active community behind it, we're excited about what lies ahead for the company. Tune in for a riveting conversation with this multi-talented founder.


Saber: The Rise of DeFi on Solana ft. Dylan Macalinao

Introducing a new series within our primary podcast, designed specifically for the crypto believers, intriguers, and even the skeptics. This series will be hosted by Jump Capital's crypto co-leads, Saurabh Sharma and Peter Johnson. The content in this podcast is not investment advice.

Introducing a new series within our primary podcast, designed specifically for the crypto believers, intriguers, and even the skeptics. This series will be hosted by Jump Capital's crypto co-leads, Saurabh Sharma and Peter Johnson. 

The content in this podcast is not investment advice.


Introducing The Jump Off Point - Crypto Series

Introducing a new series within our primary podcast, designed specifically for the crypto believers, intriguers, and even the skeptics. This series will be hosted by Jump Capital's crypto co-leads, Saurabh Sharma and Peter Johnson.

The content in this podcast is not investment advice.


Las Vegas has gone digital! In a new episode of #TheJumpOffPoint, Todd Haushalter of Evolution joins Jason and Jump Capital VP Tarun Gupta to explore iGaming and the future of live, online casino services.

Todd Haushalter has been Chief Product Officer at Evolution Gaming since 2015. Todd oversees all aspects of Evolution’s games and product development, including many of the industry’s most celebrated games. Having previously worked as Vice President of Gaming at MGM Resorts and as Vice President of Business Strategy at Shuffle Master, he has a wide and varied knowledge of the casino industry.

Todd Haushalter

Chief Product Officer at Evolution Gaming

Las Vegas has gone digital! In a new episode of #TheJumpOffPoint, Todd Haushalter of Evolution joins Jason and Jump Capital VP Tarun Gupta to explore iGaming and the future of live, online casino services.


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