Scaling a Regulated Fintech: Metaco's Adrien Treccani

Adrien Treccani — founder of Metaco (digital-asset custody) and CEO of Supervised — explains why organizations slow as they scale: information processing consumes the capacity to lead, and adding management layers redistributes the problem instead of solving it, drawing on scaling a highly regulated fintech.

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Why this matters for fintech: Metaco is a regulated digital-asset custody fintech — Treccani's lessons on scaling under compliance load, information overload, and org design are directly transferable to banks, custodians, and fintech operators.

In this episode, we cover:

• Adrien Treccani (founder, Metaco; CEO, Supervised)
• Why information processing — not intent — limits leadership
• Why management layers redistribute rather than solve the problem
• Lessons from scaling a highly regulated fintech
• Rethinking org design for compliance-heavy operations

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