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Brick by Brick
by Ollie Allen Fox
Uncovering the foundations to start build your empire in your 20s. I'm on a mission to inspire people to take their dreams from zero to one. This is a library of conversations with outliers who have found success in their domains. My hope is to shine a light on the mindset of high performers who make a positive difference to the world. The podcast is based around entrepreneurship but it touches on sport, art, design, technology, psychedelics, philosophy, self development, sales, business skills & everything in between. Podcast hosted by Ollie Allen Fox ( @ollieallenfox ), founder of WEBOAF theoafproject.substack.com
Episodes
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Brom Rector, Funding Human 3.0 [BBB023]
Brom Rector is the founder of XEIA Venture Partners (formerly Empath Ventures), a venture capital firm focused on the intersection of neuroscience, mental health, and emerging technologies. In this episode we discuss: - The evolution from Empath's psychedelics focus to XEIA's broader "Human 3.0"...
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022 Hugo Lu: Building Orchestra, a Leading Data SaaS Startup In London
Ollie Allen Fox speaks to Hugo Lu, founder of Orchestra, about his journey from investment banking to revolutionizing data engineering. Hugo offers valuable insights on data stack architecture, the importance of clean and modular systems, and how Orchestra is helping data engineers streamline…
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021 Molly O'Shea: Growing the Sourcery.vc Newsletter to 6k Subscribers
Molly O’Shea is an investor & founder of Sourcery.vc. A weekly newsletter on top weekly VC deals & tech signals. After posting top quality content for 4 years, whilst working at a variety of VC firms, Molly has built an audience of 6,000 people from the industry. In this conversation we talked...
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020 Cyrus Yari: Finding your life's work, avoiding F30u30 & Lindy Ideas
Cyrus is General Partner at rational.fund. He podcasts and writes at rationalvc.com. He is currently working as a Software Engineer at Tesla. He has co-invested alongside Founders Fund, Jim O'Shaughnessy, YC, a16z, Sam Altman et al. The podcast has reached the top 25 charts on several occasions,...
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019 Alex Leiman, 23 Year Old Makes $190k / Month With AI Dating Assistant App
Alex Leiman is the Co-Founder of Plug AI. An AI dating app that got 1.5M downloads in 4.5 months thanks to a genius TikTok campaign. It's now making $190k / month and the business is for sale for $3.5M. Alex is 23. His last business (SexyCakes - a college delivery service) did $700k in revenue...
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018 Mike Annunziata: Building the best seed stage venture capital firm on the planet (Also Capital)
Mike Annunziata is the Founding Partner of Also Capital, the Co-Founder of Farther Farms & a board member of Varda Space. In this episode, Ollie & Mike talk about: Mike's fund, Also Capital Deep tech industry trends How to find great deep tech founders The founding story of Varda Space The...
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017 Yuriy Blokhin, Founding a Tech Startup With A Novel Business Model
Yuriy Blokhin is the Founder / CEO of Homecoming, a startup building tools and technologies to support the essential work of coaches and therapists. Yuriy has consulted a therapy chatbot company for acquisition by Airbnb. He is a founding member of the Heroic Hearts Project, offering educational,...
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016 Hector Mason, Top 10 Lessons From Meeting Unicorn Founders & The Future Of Data Driven Seed Investing
Hector Mason is General Partner at Episode 1 Ventures, where he invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies using data driven insights. Often sourcing deals before founders have even left their job. He supplements his work at Episode 1 as Co-Founder of Focal, a virtual demo day matching top seed...
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015 Clint Graumann, Mapping The Earth With LiDAR Satellites To Fight Climate Change With Leonardo DiCaprio
Clint Graumann is Founder & CEO of Nuview. He's building the world’s first commercial constellation of LiDAR imaging satellites. The data will help academics, scientists and companies fight climate change. Clint has raised $15m from top investors including MaC Venture Capital, Leonardo DiCaprio…
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014 Sa'ad Shah, Investing $150m To Fix The Mental Health Crisis
Sa'ad Shah is the the Managing Partner of Noetic Capital, a $150m AUM venture capital firm focused on funding companies providing solutions for the 1.2 billion people diagnosed with mental health conditions. Portfolio companies include Merlin Mind, Beckley Psytech & Apollo Neuroscience. Sa'ad has...
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#013: Anya Culling, Amateur Runner To England Athlete In 4 Years [2hr 34m Marathon PB]
Anya Culling's marathon PB is 2hr 34min. She set this personal record at Copenhagen marathon wearing an England vest. Anya started running in lockdown and fell in love with the sport taking her marathon time from 4hr 34min to 2hr 36min. This earned her an invitation to represent the England team…
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#012: Daniel Tarockoff, Breaking Into The Venture Capital Industry
Daniel Tarockoff is a Partner at Vine Ventures where he invests in companies taking a novel approach to conscious health and wellness such as Tripp, Othership & Psygen. Previously Daniel worked in strategy consulting for 5 years at Strategy&. In this episode he explains the contrast between...
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#011: Jessica Harrison-Bolton, Using Storytelling To Close $100M Enterprise Deals
Jessica Harrison-Bolton is a Creative Director at IBM. She sees over an IBM team that brings storytelling & experiential telling excellence to big deals ($10M - $100M+). The team has worked on over $1B worth of deals for IBM in the last few years. In 2022, Jess won the IBM Growth Award as…
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#010 John McGlothlin, 5 Life Lessons From The Military To Improve Your Day To Day Life
John McGlothlin is a former US military paratrooper & author of the book "How to Deal With Damn Near Anything: The Paratrooper's Guide To Life". He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland where he focuses on building ethical & legal decision-making skills in MBA candidates. In...
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#008: Dillan DiNardo, Raising $11.5M To Design New States of Consciousness With Psychedelics
Dillan DiNardo is the Co-Founder & CEO of Mindstate Design Labs. A company focused on developing the next generation of psychedelic - inspired therapeutics for mental health treatment. Mindstate Design Labs went through the S21 Y Combinator batch. They then went on to raise $11.5M from top...
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#007: Stuart Cope, Co-Founding a 30 Person Digital Studio & Working With Nike
Stuart Cope is the Co-Founder of Yellow Panther, a digital studio that builds products for some of the world's biggest brands such as Nike, eBay and the Rajasthan Royals. Stuart & his co-founder have 30+ staff & two offices, one in the UK and one in India. We talk about integrating AI into…
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#006: Mahyad G, Going Through Y Combinator & Raising $4M For SigmaOS
Mahyad Ghassemibouyaghchi is the Co-Founder & CEO of SigmaOS. A Y Combinator backed startup that is looking to change how you interact with the internet with their new Mac browser app. Seven years ago, Mahyad moved to the UK from Iran with nothing. He was rejected from interviews, fired from jobs…
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#005: Paul Deuchar, Bouncing Back From A Billion Dollar Failure
Paul Deuchar is currently the Founder & CEO of UseVerb.com. Paul is a serial entrepreneur who has been recognised in 40 Under 40, Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Young Engineer of the Year, Australian Product Innovation and the Australian Cool Company Awards. His previous companies were in the...
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#004: Brock McLean, From Scoring Winning Goals in Front of 90,000 to a Mental Health Crisis
This is a truly inspiring story. Brock McLean played 167 games at the highest level of Australian Rules Football. He's scored winning goals in front of tens of thousands of people, learnt what it takes to perform at an elite level & overcome the difficulties of life after sport. Brock struggled...
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#003: Sam Heward, Building The Worlds Greatest Ultramarathon Series Ultra X
Sam Heward is the Co-Founder of Ultra X. A global ultramarathon series hosting the best Ultra races on the planet. In locations such as Jordan, Sri Lanka, Madeira, Tanzania & Azores as well as many others. Ultra X: https://ultra-x.co/ Sam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samheward This is a public...
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#002: Jack Zerby, Saying no to a $40M Facebook Acquisition Deal
Jack Zerby was the 10th employee at Vimeo. He is now the Head of Design at Gumroad working alongside Sahil Lavingia. He is also the founder of Biddy, Design for Decks, Do HQ, Dogma & Flavors.me. He also does freelance UI/UX consulting. The aim of this podcast is to understand how the f he manages...
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#001: Brom Rector, Launching a $10M Psychedelic VC Fund
Brom Rector is the Founding General Partner of Empath Ventures. A Venture Capital firm that is investing in the future of Psychedelic Medicine. Brom used to work in Hedge Funds before starting a Pychedelic Podcast (The Brom Podcast) that led him to combine his psychedelic industry knowledge with...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Uncovering the foundations to start build your empire in your 20s. I'm on a mission to inspire people to take their dreams from zero to one. This is a library of conversations with outliers who have found success in their domains. My hope is to shine a light on the mindset of high performers who make a positive difference to the world. The podcast is based around entrepreneurship but it touches on sport, art, design, technology, psychedelics, philosophy, self development, sales, business skills & everything in between. Podcast hosted by Ollie Allen Fox ( @ollieallenfox ), founder of WEBOAF
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