Rumi Morales's guest appearances

Rumi Morales

Better Innovation

Momenta I Digital Thread

Rita McGrath

Priya Parker

Panos Panay

Michael Anderson

Patti Fletcher

Lucy Marcil

Tim Williams

Nick Davies

Jason Shepherd

David Bray

Joe Weiss

Usman Haque

Vivek Wadhwa

Leemon Baird

Hedera Hashgraph

OwlTail

Rumi Morales has seemingly done it all . . . she has worked at traditional financial institutions, advised blockchain startups, and at one point was even a lounge singer! She knows so much about the power of reinventing oneself. Rumi has adopted this unique philosophy of reinvention throughout her career. Over the years she has played the part of a forward-thinking innovator at century-old traditional organizations, while also venture investing in artificial intelligence, deep learning, predictive analytics, and quantum computing. Institutional Investor said Rumi was one of the “most powerful dealmakers in financial technology” two years in a row, and Crain’s recognized her in their esteemed “40 Under 40” list. How did Rumi achieve this success? On this episode Jeff and Rumi talk about the power of reinvention; in financial systems, businesses, and frankly life in general. Rumi shares her thoughts on how institutions can reinvent themselves to better prepare for disruption through innovative technologies. Jeff and Rumi dive deep into some of the lessons that Rumi has learned from surviving various economic crises, and how reinvention becomes particularly necessary following a crisis, as an important step on the path to recovery.

Rumi Morales has seemingly done it all . . . she has worked at traditional financial institutions, advised blockchain startups, and at one point was even a lounge singer! She knows so much about the power of reinventing oneself. Rumi has adopted this unique philosophy of reinvention throughout her career. Over the years she has played the part of a forward-thinking innovator at century-old traditional organizations, while also venture investing in artificial intelligence, deep learning, predictive analytics, and quantum computing. Institutional Investor said Rumi was one of the “most powerful dealmakers in financial technology” two years in a row, and Crain’s recognized her in their esteemed “40 Under 40” list. How did Rumi achieve this success? On this episode Jeff and Rumi talk about the power of reinvention; in financial systems, businesses, and frankly life in general. Rumi shares her thoughts on how institutions can reinvent themselves to better prepare for disruption through innovative technologies. Jeff and Rumi dive deep into some of the lessons that Rumi has learned from surviving various economic crises, and how reinvention becomes particularly necessary following a crisis, as an important step on the path to recovery.

Season 4, Ep.2- Rumi Morales: Reinvention as a Necessity of Recovery

Rumi Morales is a Partner at Outlier Ventures, an investment firm focused on early stage companies with an investment horizon of 10-20 years driven by an investment thesis focused on convergence of AI, Blockchain and IoT.  Our conversation covers her experience surviving the Asian Financial crises, the burst of the dot.coms and the global financial crisis  - and how lessons from those experiences helped shape her views. She shares her experience managing venture investments at CME Group, navigating the digital disruption in trading and the appeal of AI and blockchain technologies in financial markets. The discussion also covered promising use cases for blockchain and IoT, the implications of “Crypto Winter” and comparisons of Blockchain and AI as the “troubled child who talks about everything” and the “quiet teenager that goes to their room and closes the door without saying anything”. Companies discussed include SmartCognition, Haja Networks, IOTA,  Sovrn, Fetch.AI, Ocean Protocol and Botanic/SEED.

Rumi Morales is a Partner at Outlier Ventures, an investment firm focused on early stage companies with an investment horizon of 10-20 years driven by an investment thesis focused on convergence of AI, Blockchain and IoT. Our conversation covers her experience surviving the Asian Financial crises, the burst of the dot.coms and the global financial crisis - and how lessons from those experiences helped shape her views. She shares her experience managing venture investments at CME Group, navigating the digital disruption in trading and the appeal of AI and blockchain technologies in financial markets. The discussion also covered promising use cases for blockchain and IoT, the implications of “Crypto Winter” and comparisons of Blockchain and AI as the “troubled child who talks about everything” and the “quiet teenager that goes to their room and closes the door without saying anything”. Companies discussed include SmartCognition, Haja Networks, IOTA, Sovrn, <a href="http://Fetch.AI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fetch.AI</a>, Ocean Protocol and Botanic/SEED.

#41 Investing in Convergence: AI, Blockchain and IoT - A Conversation with Rumi Morales