In this episode, Arta’s Global CEO Caesar Sengupta dives into a timely conversation with Tarun Bhatnagar, President of platform and enterprise products at FIS and former Google executive, to explore how courage, curiosity, and a willingness to take the non-linear path helped shape his life and career.

Tarun reflects on the pivotal moments that defined his journey — from starting as a software engineer, moving into product and then sales roles to leading global teams. He talks about the importance of embracing change, even when it means stepping into the unknown. Guided early by the advice that “Your first 20 years are for gaining experience,” he built his career around exploration, reinvention and lifelong learning.

Beyond that, Tarun shares personal insights on the evolving role of money, family, and purpose in his life, and how true financial wellbeing lies in freedom of time, not solely in the accumulation of wealth, making this episode both relatable and deeply human.

In this episode, Arta’s Global CEO Caesar Sengupta dives into a timely conversation with Max Branzburg on his journey to becoming Head of Consumer Products at Coinbase and his views on cryptocurrency.

Max opens up about pivotal experiences that shaped his career, including starting out as a 14-year-old entrepreneur on Ebay. His early exploration in coding and product sales eventually landed him at Google as a product manager. But Max wanted to take a professional risk. Taking a pay cut, and ignoring the advice of loved ones, he made the jump from Google to Coinbase.

Max talks about his journey and perspective - from vision changes he executed at Coinbase, to the products and apps that excite him, to how artificial intelligence will affect crypto. He shares his take on crypto adoption and where it’s headed into the future. He also shares candidly how he manages his own finances and how not having to focus on money in the short term frees him to focus on real long-term impact.

Caesar is joined by Chirag Yagnik, chief investment officer and co-founder of Arta Finance, to discuss how Arta was built and the impact of artificial intelligence on financial investing.

Chirag takes listeners back to the start of his career when he first encountered machine learning in investing, how he met Caesar at Google and his experience as a startup co-founder.

Caesar and Chirag explore how AI is transforming the relationship people have with money. At Arta, their goal is to ensure that no two investors have the same portfolio. Chirag explains key terms like large language models, quantitative strategy and tax loss harvesting, and how Arta employs each to personalize the investor experience.

Chirag digs deep into how AI will enable companies like Arta to democratize financial insights at scale. But applying machine learning in finance creates unique challenges, and Chirag unpacks how he works to overcome them.