Fireside with Founders & Leaders

In this weeks episode, we talk to the extraordinary Steph Hamill about how her company are looking to make sure that AI is used in the right way!

We Cover;

• Sensory A.I
• Our Education System
• Diversity
• Bias in today's society
• What does A.I actually mean?
• The Human benefits of A.I
• Using A.I for good
• Business runs the world not Politicians

All this and lots, lots more so sit back, tune in and enjoy the show. 

In this weeks episode, we talk to Brand Pinto, CEO and Founder of Insurtech start-up Insuroo.

We get to chat about;

• Starting his career in Sales
• The challenges of cold calling when starting out
• Setting up his first business selling beauty products
• Evolving the customer experience 
• The skills shortage of Financial Advisors but clients needs growing
• Starting a business and going back into the corporate world
• The challenges of bootstrapping, including hiring
• VC's reaching out to them

So for all this and lots more, grab a cold one and listen in!

This week we talk to Co-Founder at Braingineers, Max van Kaathoven about his company that uses neurology to help companies understand their customers better.

We take an in-depth look at how Max started the business and look at where they are now. He talks to us about the impact COVID had and influenced some change in the future of what they do. 

As Braingineers look to make this type of testing available and accessible to everyone we explore how they will do this. 

For all this and lots, lots more hit that play button and listen!

In this weeks episode we speak to Thomas Fairey, Co-Founder of Stakester. 

We talk about;

• Starting out in sales
• Having a winning mindset
• Leaving a great job to work for start-up
• Coming up with the idea whilst doing martial arts.
• Building a platform to make gaming more entertaining
• Getting funding and being surprised 
• Working on your pitch to get the right investors
• Data is more powerful than ego
• Feedback being a gift

So tune in for all this, some great advice and lots of laughs along the way!

This weeks episode marks the end of season 1 of Fireside with Founders and to top the series off we've got Dean Fankhauser former CEO and Co-Founder of E-commerce platform Nuji. We talk about his entire journey from the conception to the final sale to Fintech super company Klarna.

We discuss;

• Starting a business in his early 20's
• The multiple evolutions of the company
• What it's really like to go through a sale
• Challenges of funding
• What he would do differently if starting again
• The iPhone being thought of as a craze that would fade
• Focusing on unit economics
• Changing the business model for the 3rd time 5 years in
• With more funding comes greater pressure
• Celebrating the wins
• Finding an exit route

Sit back and enjoy the last of this seasons fireside talks.

This week we are joined by Kerim Derhalli - CEO & Founder of Invstr who talks to us about the product they've created to help people learn how to invest and then put this learning into practice.

We talk about;

• Creating the ultimate experience for investors
• Investing in human capital
• Fantasy Finance
• The Invstr Academy
• Financial literacy and the challenges it poses
• Kerims long history in Finance and the move to Tech
• Building multi billion dollar businesses
• His biggest learn in their 9 year history 
• The challenges around building a diverse workforce
• The $100,000 challenge
• Being a Dolphin

All of this and lots, lots more. So hit play to hear the full story!

Kaitlin Fritz, COO and Co-Founder at Musemio talks to us about their product which helps brings History and Arts to children aged 7-11 via the power of Virtual Reality

We cover off a number of topics including;

• Making art and culture more accessible
• Using apps to bring that accessibility
• Making at home learning fun!
• How you can stand out from the crowd whilst building a company
• Being a female leader in a female lead team
• Bringing change and being part of the solution to help female leaders to become entrepreneurs 
• The technical challenges and growing pains when running a Tech start up.
• Making sure you celebrate the wins!

So for all of this and more then hit play now to listen.

In this weeks episode, we speak to Jordan McRae - CEO and Founder of Mobilus Labs - The man that puts the voice inside your head!

This week we talk about;

• Coming up with an idea through a near-death experience
• Voice playing a major part in the future of tech
• Helping people look up & experience the physical world
• Wanting to become an Astronaut
• Not just being a founder but and inventor
• Starting his first company to help people communicate underwater
• Being part of Entrepreneur First and breaking the mould
• Having the patience and confidence to realise your dreams
• The pain of fundraising during a recession
• Adapting their technology to work with PPE in the medical sector

There's plenty more to hear in the episode, so make sure you check it out now!

In this weeks episode, we get to talk to one of the Sifteds recently recognised, start-up pioneers of 2020. Sam Short, CEO and Co-Founder of Moneyed.

We talk to Sam about;

• Helping people take care of their financial wellbeing as well as mental wellbeing
• Starting her business with her Co-Founder to solve a problem they had
• Going from PHD's in Particle Physics to running a Tech company
• Timing is everything (is there ever a great time to leave your job)
• Managing her own expectations
• Making sure you're solving a problem that people care about
• Having a great network around you to help share challenges.

All this and loads more, so sit back and tune in to hear her story!

This week we talk to James McAulay CEO and Co-Founder of Encore Musicians about his business and how they managed to pivot when all live events were shut down during COVID.

James talks about;

• Having their best-ever month in March 2020 then traffic simply drying up
• Helping musicians earn money during COVID whilst not being able to do event
• Raising money for the NHS
• Bookings increasing with 2021 set to be a bumper year!
• Him being an entrepreneur from a very young age
• The desire to be profitable as a start-up and not drain cash & an understanding of the people you need in your team to help you do this.

All this and lots more so sit back a listen to the journey so far!