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SmartMedia Technologies CEO Tyler Moebius: From early ad-tech partner to Web3 entrepreneur

The SmartMedia Technologies founder on tokenized loyalty, the Paris Olympics, and why he got out of stablecoins before they got big.

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SmartMedia Technologies CEO Tyler Moebius: From early ad-tech partner to Web3 entrepreneur

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In math we trust

Tyler Moebius is a Star Alliance member. His son goes to university in Switzerland, so he flies Swiss and Lufthansa now. Both are in the alliance. His United miles should upgrade him. They don't, not without a fight.

"The friction makes it almost impossible," he said on the CEO.com Podcast.

That is the entire thesis of his company, stated as a personal grievance. Moebius is the founder, Group CEO, and Chairman of SmartMedia Technologies, which is trying to put a token behind every loyalty point so the points can move between programs. Interoperability is the goal. Utility is the argument. Nobody redeems points they can't easily spend.

A second argument targets the finance department. Points are a liability. They sit on the balance sheet as one, accruing, waiting. Tokenize them, make them easier to spend, and the liability comes down while the member gets something they actually wanted. Both sides win, which is the kind of claim that is either true or the reason the company exists. His pitch is simpler: tap to pay with your phone using loyalty points.

He has been building on the internet long enough to be relaxed about it all. He joined the founding team of one of the first ad servers in 1997, went public, sold to Microsoft, and has started five companies since. He remembers being in his 20s at a cocktail party while one of his mother's friends explained that the internet was a fad.

SmartMedia Technologies was founded in 2019 with Reeve Collins, a co-founder Moebius has worked with for 20 years. In 2015, Collins co-founded Tether. They got out. "You don't want to be Americans trying to create the world's new currency reserve," Moebius said, which is a sentence worth sitting with given what Tether became.

We spoke on December 5, 2024, the day after Bitcoin first crossed $100,000, when Web3 was still recovering its reputation from FTX and every startup that had been a blockchain company in 2021 had quietly become an AI company. Moebius rode the dot-com boom and bust and doesn't think the pattern is complicated. Speculation arrives, speculation leaves, the protocol keeps working. Stablecoins and DeFi are where the technology found its footing.

His explanation of what sits underneath it is better than most:

A public ledger is a spreadsheet everyone can see. On top of it is a consensus framework, which lets value move from one party to another using math. "It used to be in God we trust, and then it was in gold we trust, and then it was in the US greenback promissory note, the GDP of America I trust, and now it's in math I trust." You and I can swap dollar bills without either of us losing anything. If mine is signed by Tom Brady, we are not swapping. That is a smart contract. Everything else was people betting an ape would be worth more tomorrow, which has also happened with stocks, sports cards, and land in Florida.

The company's most visible deployment was Paris 2024. Working with the IOC, SmartMedia launched My Olympic Rewards, which paid fans points for everyday fandom, and let Olympic partners connect their own programs to it. Samsung gave points for finishing health challenges in its app. Visa gave points for qualified card transactions. Intel let fans generate a one-of-one loyalty badge from their own prompts, which Moebius described as "a one-of-a-kind degenerative piece of art," a slip I am keeping because everyone who has ever pitched generative AI on a podcast has made it.

The AI is not decoration. He spent 15 years building systems to decide which ad to show which person on which device at which moment, so a recommendation engine for which offer you'll redeem your points against is the same problem wearing different clothes.

His days start at 4:45 or 5:00 with the Waking Up app, which he found at what he calls a pivotal point in his life. Meditation, dog, espresso. At 7:00, four children get up and, in his words, the circus wakes up. Then the office, where most of his time goes to the scale-up: go-to-market, roadmap, what gets built first.

He is back in the office because he made himself go back. The company had a strong in-office culture before COVID, and he is not sure it survived. He calls not looking harder at that sooner a mistake of his, and he does not pretend to have fixed it. Once you have hired remote people, you cannot easily reverse it without doing something drastic, and he has watched other companies do the drastic thing.

On mental health, he is not careful. He has been through it, the company has been through it, and his conclusion is that treating it as taboo makes it worse. Talk about it. Make sure people know who to call. He also thinks the country is nowhere near equipped for the scale of it and says so bluntly.

Ask him what leadership is, and you get passion first, resilience second. He has been in the fetal position over hard decisions more than once. The line he hates is "it's not personal, it's business." It's absolutely personal. We are all humans. Make the call with empathy and confidence at the same time, and when the front door is locked, find the open window. That last one is his mother's.

Asked about the economy in 2025, he said, "I have no idea," which Clint correctly identified as a great answer. He was cautiously optimistic and expected the tariffs to produce secondary effects nobody had modeled. He also said Elon Musk was now in charge of the DOJ, meaning DOGE, the cost-cutting effort Musk had been named to lead a few weeks earlier. The underlying point, that the incoming administration had turned crypto from a headwind into a tailwind, held up.

It has held up commercially too. In June 2026 the company announced it was scaling its SmartPoints protocol into a global payments network, with investment and advisors including Janus Henderson Investors and Brian Kelly of The Points Guy, who joined as both. The framing has shifted from Web3 marketing to loyalty and payments infrastructure, and the current pitch is that banks and Fortune 500 brands can use SMT to issue their own branded stablecoins. The technology already runs inside Visa's Web3 Loyalty Engagement Solution and Huntington Bank, and has been activated at the Olympics and across the NBA, NFL, MLB, and FIFA.

That is a long way from where the company started. When SMT came out of stealth in January 2021, it called itself a MadTech platform running a self-serve audience activation and real-time programmatic buying stack, off more than $80 million in 2020 sales. The blockchain piece was in there, buried at the bottom as something called a SmartMedia Object. Five years later, that is the whole company, and it sells to card issuers.

At CEO.com, we believe the chances one gives are as important as the chances one takes. Moebius names his brother-in-law, who hired him out of college as the fifth employee at a dot-com and thereby started everything. And the chairman at the company he founded in his 20s, where he raised $89 million and, more usefully, was mentored by someone willing to sit with him while he learned what to do with it.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:20 Tyler's Path to Founding Smart Media Technologies
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00:08:13 AI's Impact on Smart Media Technologies
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00:12:27 A Day in the Life of Tyler
00:14:18 Company Culture and Hybrid Work
00:16:04 Reading Recommendations and Leadership Insights
00:19:59 Mental Health in the Tech Industry
00:22:43 Economic Outlook for 2025
00:26:09 Who Gave Tyler His Chance
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