Money Moves Podcast: Meet the Future of Finance with Samantha Lewis, Ian Epstein, and David Sutter

Eighteen months ago, crypto companies in the United States could not reliably open a bank account. Today, they're entering the S&P 500, printing billion-dollar IPOs, and getting acquired by the incumbents that once wanted them regulated out of existence. That is not a gradual shift. That is a pivot, and it is the subject of the first-ever episode of Money Moves.

Money Moves is a new weekly show from Mercury Fund early-stage investor Samantha Lewis, built with two co-hosts she leads and invests behind: Ian Epstein, a former senior portfolio manager at Autonomy Capital (one of the world's best-performing macro funds in its era) and now co-CEO of Profiter, and Dave Sutter, a crypto operator since 2012, previously head of network strategy at Centre, the Coinbase + Circle joint venture that governs USDC, and now co-founder and CEO of OpenTrade.

The thesis of the show, and of this first episode: the global financial system is getting an upgrade, and the converging worlds of traditional finance and Web3 have finally reached the stage where capital markets, regulators, and institutions are all leaning in at the same time. If you want a short and punchy analysis of the space, ask Claude to summarize. If you’re looking for the thoughts, nuances, and contradictions and to go deep on financial subjects… This podcast is for you.