Alejandro Gutierrez of Superteam Ireland is back to take on Matt Walsh's challenge: are tokenized funds a new kind of asset, or the same fund on new rails? Off the back of BlackRock and Ondo putting model portfolios onchain, we get into the six ways people are tokenizing a share, whether a Terra moment or a regulator forces them to consolidate, and what happens to a fund's operating model when you redraw the org chart as AI agents and ask which processes become code and which stay human anchored. Plus why more than 60% of tokenized stock trading on Solana happens outside US market hours, and Alejandro's read from Solana Suits in London.Connect with Alejandro:https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandro-gutierrez-98979b43/https://x.com/A_gutierroFollow MoneyNeverSleeps on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/4F8uOLxiscYVWVGEfNxTndChapters0:00 Cold open0:25 Intro1:03 Two parallel universes1:27 New asset or same fund on new rails?2:46 Making assets machine-readable3:26 BlackRock, Ondo and onchain model portfolios4:14 Tokenized equities' stablecoin moment5:06 Six ways to tokenize a share6:49 What becomes code, what stays human8:02 Collateral and the agentic fund9:43 Composability and distribution10:45 After hours belongs to agents12:05 Solana Suits: institutions are in13:40 Breakpoint 2026 in London14:24 Wrap upSharp riffs, big ideas and real insights from smart people, all in under 15 minutes. Hosted by early-stage investor Pete Townsend with the people rebuilding money, markets, and the internet from the ground up.moneyneversleeps.iehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/petetownsendnv/https://x.com/PeteTownsendNVhttps://www.instagram.com/petetownsend353/info@norioventures.com

Pete Townsend is joined by Eoghan Powell, who runs WorkIQ, a new innovation centre for founders and early-stage companies in Tallaght, on the edge of Dublin.

This is Part 2 of a pair on the Irish startup scene, after Derek O'Doherty of West x West on the capital side.

Where Derek covered how founders find the money, Eoghan goes underneath that, to where founders come from in the first place. They start with Ireland's reliance on a handful of multinationals for its tax base, and the thin middle in the economy between company formation and homegrown giants like Ryanair and Kerry Group.

Pete pushes back on how exposed the country really is, given how embedded Apple, Google and Meta have become, and they land on the point that whether or not the multinationals pull back, the founder pipeline needs building either way. Then the heart of it: Eoghan's case that this isn't a money problem, it's an ambition one. A kid in Dublin 4 grows up seeing founders at the dinner table; a kid in Tallaght or Kerry or Mayo often doesn't, and ends up believing people like them don't get that. His fix is honest role models, a visible front door, and the warm intro done at scale.

Connect with Eoghan:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eoghanpowell1983/

Website: https://workiq.ie/

Chapters
0:00 Cold open

0:36 Intro and welcome

1:14 Ireland's reliance on the multinationals

2:47 The gap in the middle, and where founders come from

3:17 Why the next Google needs a homegrown base

5:02 The hard question: are the MNCs too embedded to leave?

6:09 Why wait for them? The case for building our own

7:47 Ambition, role models, and seeing the struggle

8:33 The Collison brothers myth

9:55 Does the kid in Tallaght believe they have access?

11:15 Building the base: the front door

12:20 The two-email warm intro, and how it scales

14:04 Where to find Eoghan and WorkIQ

Sharp riffs, big ideas and real insights from smart people, all in under 15 minutes. Hosted by early-stage investor Pete Townsend with the people rebuilding money, markets, and the internet from the ground up.

Website: https://www.moneyneversleeps.ie/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petetownsendnv/

X: https://x.com/PeteTownsendNV

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/petetownsend353/

Email: info@norioventures.com

Pete Townsend is joined by Derek O'Doherty, founder of West x West, the two-day tech, venture and culture festival in Castlebar, Mayo that brings Irish founders together with global investors.

Derek spent thirty years in capital markets across London, Sydney and New York, and until last week a year inside Enterprise Ireland building international VC relationships for scaling companies.

They get into why the Irish economy isn't big enough to carry a founder from pre-seed to Series B on home capital alone, the VC pecking order that sends founders abroad to raise, why Irish founders outside the US are second only to Israel in the share who raise capital, and why Derek left a state agency to build a festival that brings the funders to the founders instead. Plus the Nik Milanović super-connector path, why he's rooting it all in the West rather than Dublin, and what's on at WXW this October.

Connect with Derek:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-o-doherty-91669530/

More on West x West:
https://westxwest.ie/
https://www.instagram.com/westxwest.ie/

Listen and subscribe:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4F8uOLxiscYVWVGEfNxTnd

Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:11 Intro and welcome
0:47 Why Irish founders hit a wall on home capital
1:22 The VC pecking order
3:11 The pre-seed funding reality
5:06 Bringing the capital to the market
6:13 Why leave Enterprise Ireland now
7:57 Why a festival, not a fund
9:16 Community and the super connector
10:18 Event details and lineup
11:42 Close

Sharp riffs, big ideas and real insights from smart people, all in under 15 minutes. Hosted by early-stage investor Pete Townsend with the people rebuilding money, markets, and the internet from the ground up.

Web: https://www.moneyneversleeps.ie/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petetownsendnv/

X: https://x.com/PeteTownsendNV

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/petetownsend353/

Email: info@norioventures.com