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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-sub-2026q3/newsletters?i=43e432dc-bc5e-4331-be0b-c0df73c49a3d&cr=time-sub-2026q3-v1) * TIME Subscriptions: [time.com/subscribe-agent](/c/time-sub-2026q3/subscribe?i=43e432dc-bc5e-4331-be0b-c0df73c49a3d&cr=time-sub-2026q3-v1)  Photo Credit: Zagnore Photo Credit: Zagnore Some careers move in a straight line. Nikolaos Kargakos’s didn’t, and that’s more or less the whole point of it. He was born in Montreal to a Greek family, and over the past two decades he’s worked his way through industries that rarely sit at the same table: commodities, cryptocurrency, healthcare, digital security. Now he runs Business Facilitator LLC out of Dubai, a firm built on an idea that’s simple to say and much harder to pull off. The right introduction, made at the right moment, can play an important role in business. He got an early look at where money was heading, back when most people weren’t looking at all. Kargakos began mining Bitcoin and Ethereum relatively early, before blockchain became a common topic in business circles. That kind of early conviction usually goes one of two ways. It fades, or it hardens into instinct. With Kargakos, it hardened. What he was left with was an interest in identifying technologies that may warrant attention at an early stage. In 2022, he moved to Dubai, and the move appears to have been informed by both personal and strategic considerations. The city had already spent years turning itself into a meeting point for capital and ambition arriving from every direction, and Kargakos treated that fact the way a good operator treats any advantage. He put himself in the middle of it. Since then he’s built relationships in more than twenty countries, working with entrepreneurs, private investors, family offices, and companies in the thick of early growth. Taken together, the deals, partnerships, and ventures he has been involved in reflect a broad range of business activity across multiple areas. Rather than centering on any single transaction, the broader picture is the range of work and industries involved. That range is really the whole story of Business Facilitator LLC. Kargakos doesn’t work in one sector. He often works across sectors, helping to facilitate the early conversations that may precede a deal. His clients have come out of artificial intelligence, digital assets, healthcare, digital security, and energy, and no matter the industry, his job tends to look roughly the same: growth planning, building partnerships, getting companies into new markets, and doing the unglamorous work of figuring out who actually needs to be talking to whom. He’s carried the same instinct outside of technology entirely. In commodities and energy, Kargakos advises on gold and diamonds, markets where trust and timing tend to matter as much as price does. His advisory work outside of Business Facilitator follows the same thread. He advises King Stem Cell, a biotech organization working in regenerative medicine and next-generation health technologies. And he’s an Ambassador for iVOBS, a payments company building point-of-sale infrastructure for merchants who want to accept stablecoins as easily as cards, handling conversion between fiat and stablecoins, and between stablecoins themselves, at the moment of sale. The platform pairs that with a merchant wallet and marketplace, with real-world asset tokenization on the roadmap. He’s also the founder of [Fokus AI](http://fokusai.io), a forthcoming platform applying artificial intelligence to focus, productivity, and decision-making. It’s the rare project on his list where he’s building rather than connecting. Fields that have almost nothing in common on paper: commodities, security, medicine, payments, artificial intelligence. What ties them is Kargakos himself, showing up in each one doing roughly the same job, which is finding the people who ought to know each other before somebody else beats him to it. Among the areas he’s watching most closely are predictive markets. He expects the next phase to come from media, with publishers building prediction layers directly into their coverage rather than reporting outcomes after the fact. Over two decades, Nikolaos Kargakos has developed a broad network across countries and sectors, one that supports his work beyond networking in the conventional sense. Not the platforms or pipelines his clients are out there building, but the relationships underneath them, the ones that make the rest of it possible. Plenty of people in business now are betting on technology to do that connecting automatically. Kargakos has spent his career betting on the older idea. That it still comes down to people. _Investing involves risk and your investment may lose value. Past performance gives no indication of future results. 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