Future Design Podcast #003 with Siddharth Sthalekar - Reputation Capital for the Modern World

Guest: Siddarth Sthalekar (

Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (
Creative Producer: Kash Singh (

Sound/Camera: Dylan Tan (

Music: ShowNing (


Traditional monetary capital is based on zero-sum and absolute standards. However, this does not capture all the human value creation because we do so much more than what can be captured by simple monetary terms. How do we integrate this into quantifiable value? A graduate of IIM Ahmedabad, Siddharth was the head of South Asia’s largest trading floor until 2011. He then spent four years in the Gandhi Ashram where he explored new paradigms for economics.


He is based out of Singapore where he has founded Sacred Capital. Together with team-mates around the world, they are building a reputation based economy to unleash multi-dimensional wealth. Their reputation interchange enables scaling of new forms of capital: social, cultural and intellectual.


Over the past 8 years, Siddharth has spoken at hundreds of public forums - from weekly features on television channels, to academic institutions like MIT, platforms for ideas like TEDx and more. His story has also been featured in publications like Forbes Asia, GQ and more."

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