Why He Left America and Never Looked Back, with Marcus Nelson

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Marcus Nelson, co-founder of UserVoice, the feedback tab that sat on the side of Twitter, Facebook, and Microsoft Xbox before most people knew what customer feedback software was. He sold the company last year and moved to New Zealand as a single father with his youngest son.Marcus raised $900,000 during the GFC when only five companies in all of Silicon Valley closed a round that quarter. Three weeks after the money hit the account, UserVoice was breakeven. He wishes he had never raised a cent. That one decision, and what it cost him, shaped how he thinks about capital, ownership, and what founders actually need versus what they're told they need.After two decades in Silicon Valley, he packed up and moved to New Zealand. What he found when he got here surprised him in ways he hadn't anticipated. Not the ocean or the lifestyle, those he expected. It was the things he had been trained to fear in America that simply didn't exist here. And it was the startup ecosystem he walked into, full of clever people building great things, almost entirely invisible to the networks and capital that could change their trajectory overnight.Watch every episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast hereLearn more about Marcus here Learn more about Marcus's company here #waystowealth #siliconvalley #uservoice #startup #venturecapital #entrepreneurship #nzbusiness #saas #ai #capitalraising #branding #immigration #bootstrapped #wealthbuilding