Working together, within an ecosystem
I sit down with Robert Wesley and Paul Oamen from My AI. They share their individual and shared founder's journey, from meeting at an incubation program to founding a company.
Robert Wesley is a serial tech entrepreneur and product strategist with 20 years of turning green-field ideas into global platforms. As Founder & CEO of My AI and co-creator of Me Protocol, he is shipping a universal rewards infrastructure that lets brands convert any loyalty point into an instantly redeemable digital asset. Earlier, he founded and led KIVU Technologies, designing a graph-analytics product adopted by national-security agencies, and co-founded Cognitive Architectures to solve government big-data challenges.
Paul Oamen is one of Web3’s rising stars, having founded the blockchain program at the Pan Atlantic University, Lagos Business School, where he still gives the occasional lecture. Paul also built the L1 Zone blockchain, which connects some of the largest banks in Africa. Paul has a BEng in Computer Engineering and a MS in Data Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence, graduating top of his class.
Recorded January 2025, published here 2026.
02:30 Meet the Robert and Paul
06:30 How they met
09:40 The idea, an opportunity in travel rewards
16:00 Rewards, loyalty and understanding the business case
21:00 Building a team and setting expectations
34:10 Working with the ecosystem, co innovation risk and adoption chain risk
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Article: Making Markets for Rewards in a Global Economy, by Paul Oamen Medium Article: ME Protocol
This episode was:
Edited by Preneil Pillay
Hosted by Prichelle Rugdeo
Cover art animation by Gamucatex
Post Production (to fix my bad lighting :) by vhvisuals
Original music by Jakob Ranum, Studio25
Produced by Prichelle Rugdeo and Preneil Pillay
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