Paul Dubé

Early life and background

Dubé says he is Canadian. He says he has spent most of his journey in the Americas and has spent many recent years in Latin America, where he moved about five or six years ago. He says he has moved 24 times in his life, across five different countries. He describes himself as a culture chaser. [1]

Education

Dubé says he was educated in tech and business. [1]

Career

Dubé says curiosity best describes how he came to technology, and that his path into it has never been linear. He describes himself as an entrepreneur at his core and as a builder who likes to build and invest. He says he has always been on the edge of emerging technology. [1]

Dubé says his startup business has existed for 15 years. He says his technology company has spun out several other companies, and he describes the business as something like a venture foundry. He says the company has invested in other companies, including one that is already working in municipalities. He says he learned over time to sell, acquire, merge and raise capital for companies, and that his move into venture led to Nimbus Capital. He describes Nimbus Capital as a Web3 venture company, and says he has always built things that are early to the game. [1]

Payments and banking infrastructure

Dubé says he has run a distributed company doing global payments for a long time, and that his other technology company has about 80 employees. He says he built a bank-as-a-service platform after going through the volatility of the markets and deciding he had to build infrastructure. He says his goal was to build bank infrastructure because banks have old systems, largely in Latin America. His plan, he says, was to sell that infrastructure to financial institutions. [1]

Dubé says his company does not hold licenses and works as an integrator and payment orchestrator of licensed entities. He says it offers virtual bank accounts and custodial wallet accounts, and that it built a cards-as-a-service platform that lets companies issue their own cards. He says some clients run about $3 million in payroll. He also says the company built a compliance stack and is integrating a non-custodial solution, and that it works with people in Pakistan. He says he could name ten other companies that have been acquiring companies like his, and that he has learned a lot from years of building this infrastructure. His stated goal is to bank many people and make a difference in the world. [1]

Digital assets

Dubé says he earlier tried to build apps for non-fungible tokens and digital assets. He says his team built an NFT enterprise platform years ago, and that the platform was digitizing tradable cards. He says the team ended up with a sports contract. [1]

Views

Dubé says rug pulls in the industry left many people suffering, and that crypto has settled back into infrastructure. In his opinion, blockchain has not largely solved how money is managed globally. He says Web3 was largely building infrastructure to enable the next billion people to participate in the financial system. [1]

Dubé says the global financial stack is fragmented today. He calls cross-border corridors the new frontier and says they move billions of dollars in payments today. He says Visa and Mastercard own the off-ramping rails, and that bitcoin can be moved onto a Mastercard and spent. He adds that some people already use non-custodial, self-hosted wallets without card networks. [1]

Dubé says regulation plays a massive role in how the monetary system changes, and that technologists are ahead of regulation. He says legislation is needed because there is so much nefarious activity that retail people are getting hurt. He says people need to set up outside their country in a jurisdiction that allows business registration. [1]

Dubé says he has been excited about tokenization for years, and that it moves an unproductive asset into a productive one. He says there is an interesting plan around the Clarity Act passing that involves many stablecoins. He says he would not be surprised if the US Treasury Department ended up being a stablecoin backed by bonds. He expects more freedom to move capital around every country. [1]

Dubé says he is personally and closely involved in AI and is working on it. He says he can vouch for the technology and its utility, and that a managed AI services industry is emerging at an estimated $50 billion this year. [1]

Dubé says AI has very little governance. He says governance and compliance are needed to protect end users, and that he would like to see much more governance of AI. He says he knows people already doing agent-to-agent finance. [1]

Dubé says he does not think job losses will be the main AI issue. He is more concerned about how people think, and says the world has a crisis in thought rather than a crisis in technology. He hopes AI will automate work to the point that people no longer have to live in survival. [1]

Dubé frames wealth as either numbers on a screen or finite time. He wants intentions to become the architecture of how people live, and he expects more inequality. [1]

Personal life

Dubé says he writes every day. He says his intention is to be a good, conscious human being. [1]

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References

1. Crypto rails won. The crypto narrative didn't. . Beyond the Bubble , 2026-06-19.