#65 Building the NFT infrastructure with Stephen Young from NFTfi.

Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore great FinTech products, businesses and leaders.I am your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona Digital is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.In today's show, I am joined by Stephen Young from NFTfi and we will be talking about his journey building a leading NFT lending platform. ______________________________________Today's episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.Working with us to accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product squads that cover development, UI and UX, product ownership and architecture, and that have been building products together for a very long time.You get the benefit of a 40 person studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to one of the principals. And, you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.As one of our clients said, “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe…because if you want to be the best, that is the sort of thing that you do”.To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to our website to book a call directly.______________________________________Today I am joined by Stephen Young who is building something very interesting, and in a space that is now gaining a lot of attention - the NFT space.Stephen spent a lot of his earlier career with Allan Gray, a massive traditional financial services company in South Africa, where he held multiple roles across technology and digital marketing.He spent some time with 22seven which was one of the first companies that I saw use banking feeds to help people manage their finances better and this was way before open banking. He helped Coindirect in their earlier days as Chief Product Officer and it is safe to say that he has been around Web3 for a decent amount of time now which has led him to his current focus as the founder and CEO of NFTfi.NFTfi is a simple marketplace for NFT collateralized loans which means that they allow you to put up your NFT assets as collateral for a loan or to offer loans to other people on their NFTs.Welcome Stephen, it is great to have you on the show.________________________________________________Thanks for listening to the show!  If you would like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you are welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.I will be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.Connect with Stephen or NFTfi.  Connect with Mike or Nona.Follow Nona Digital: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube