From the Family Butchers to Blockchain | Kieran Kelly, Ubloquity | The Natural Resilience Podcast

Kieran Kelly went from the family butcher's to CEO of Ubloquity, the Belfast firmsecuring global supply chains.What does it actually take to build a technology company from an unorthodox start,and who do you need around you to do it?In this episode of The Natural Resilience Podcast, Ciarán May sits down with KieranKelly, founder and CEO of Ubloquity, to trace a route into tech that went through afamily butcher's shop and a bedroom building PCs before it arrived anywhere near aboardroom.Kieran describes Ubloquity as the trust protocol in the supply chain. It usesblockchain to let goods move across borders without friction, and to prove wheresomething came from, what it is made of and who made it. He talks through thecompany's work with Amazon Web Services, and a project with Lowden Guitars in CountyDown that gave individual instruments a verifiable record of their own provenance.The conversation turns to what scaling actually costs. Kieran is direct about thecognitive load, the pressure, the stakes and the risk of building a start-up, andabout why none of it is survivable alone. His line for it is that it takes a villageto raise a start-up. Finding a tribe of founders who understand the work gives you asupport system, and people who will show you your own blind spots.He closes on Northern Ireland's technology sector, and why the grit, thedetermination and the genuine willingness to collaborate here amount to a competitiveadvantage rather than a consolation.IN THIS CONVERSATION- From the family butchers, to building PCs, to founding a technology company- What Ubloquity does, and what a trust protocol in the supply chain means- Blockchain, frictionless borders, and proving provenance- The work with AWS and the Lowden Guitars project- Why scaling is high load, high pressure, high stakes and high risk- Finding your tribe, and the blind spots only other founders can show you- Collaboration as Northern Ireland's competitive advantageTAKE THE FOUNDER SCORECARDKieran is clear that no founder gets there alone. The Founder Scorecard is where thatstarts. It takes a few minutes and shows you where you are performing well, and whereyou need more clarity, structure or support.https://founder-first.scoreapp.comGET THE LESSONS FROM EVERY EPISODEWe pull the most useful thinking out of these conversations and send it to our mailinglist, so the ideas outlast the episode.http://eepurl.com/hhiFzrMORE FROM NATURAL RESILIENCEWebsite: https://natural-resilience.co.ukSubscribe to The Natural Resilience Podcast for more honest conversations aboutleadership, resilience, entrepreneurship and the realities of building a meaningfullife and business. New episodes twice a month, recorded in Belfast.The Natural Resilience Podcast explores how founders, leaders, elite performers andremarkable people build the capacity to perform, endure and live well.#KieranKelly #Ubloquity #SupplyChain #Blockchain #BelfastTech #NorthernIreland#TechFounder #Startup #LowdenGuitars #NaturalResiliencePodcastCHAPTERS[To follow. Auto-captions exist on the video, so these can be built from the realtranscript. First timestamp at 0:00, minimum three, each at least ten seconds.]