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The Founders Lounge
by Matic Jesenovec
Imagine you are friends with some of the UK’s best entrepreneurs. Now imagine you can grab a drink with each of them and casually chat about business ideas, motivations, tactics, strategies and success habits. That’s what The Founders Lounge is all about. It provides real insights into the real day-to-day lives of real founders, CEOs and other business professionals every week. Hosted by Matic Jesenovec.
Episodes
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Multi-million pound exit, property investing and building an AI startup - Sam Oliver | E89
Sam Oliver started his entrepreneurial journey when he was just 22, founding Eydin Property, a property investment company. He then pivoted to tech, creating LeadPro, a successful property marketing software that he took from zero to a multi-million pound cash exit. Now, Sam is diving into the...
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My Success System: How I Sold My Agency for 7 Figures and Started an AI Startup - Jodie Cook | E88
Jodie Cook started a digital agency at age 22, fresh out of university. Over 10 years, she built her agency into a successful lifestyle business before selling it for 7 figures using her proven "success system" blueprint. Then she soon started Coachvox, and startup that helps coaches make an AI...
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Being Bipolar and Building Tech Companies - James Roycroft-Davis | E87
James Roycroft-Davis is a serial tech entrepreneur, mental health advocate, and investor. He has founded multiple companies, including his latest startup Baseline which aims to support people with bipolar disorder through an app-based platform. We talk about: - Losing a job and starting a…
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I Bought a Side-hustle and Grew It to a 7 Figure Business With Remote Employees - Noel Andrews | E86
Noel Andrews is the CEO of JobRack, a company that helps businesses hire remote employees in Eastern Europe and South Africa. He bought the business when it was very small and has grown it to a 7-figure company. Noel is also exceptionally good at building relationships, surrounding himself with...
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How I Built a $6M ARR SaaS with 80+ Employees in Just 4 Years - Roei Samuel | E85
Roei Samuel is a serial entrepreneur who started one of the world's most successful eSports platforms at just 22 years old, growing it to over 8 million monthly users before selling the business for millions. He then founded Connectd, a platform connecting startups with investors and advisors,...
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7-Figure Agency Founder: Starting and Scaling an Agency in The Age of AI - Loukas Hambi | E84
Loukas Hambi is the founder of two multi 7-figure agencies. The first one, Hambi Media, was recently sold to Soar With Us. And his second agency, For You Advertising, became the fastest-growing TikTok agency. He’s helped 150+ DTC brands scale to 7 and 8 figures and spent over £150M on creative.…
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Discussing AI Business Opportunities with a YCombinator Founder - Peter Nixey | E83
Peter Nixey is a serial entrepreneur who started working with AI way before it was cool. His first startup, Clickpass, was in one of the first 5 YCombinator cohorts (together with Dropbox and Disqus). He’s currently running Intentional, a task/time management software company. He’s also starting…
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Exited 2 Companies by 29, Now He Invests in Startups and Charters Superyachts - Richard Hadler | E82
Richard Hadler is a 2x exited founder. He sold a B2B marketing agency and a D2C ready-to-drink cocktail brand. He’s a director at Odin and a Co-Founder of Founders Capital where he’s now focused on investing in startups. We talk about: - Turning around a struggling publishing business at a young...
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How I Sold a Browser Plugin For 7 Figures in 2 Years (Dragons' Den's Best Pitch) - Jonny Plein | E81
Jonny Plein sold his first company, Pouch, for 7 figures after just 2 years. But he’s gone through all the worst entrepreneurial ups and downs throughout this journey. They got 5 out of 5 offers on Dragons’ Den, grew 10x overnight, then had to fire the whole team. Now he raised £2M for his next...
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How This $300M Founder Sold His Luxury Lifestyle Startup to a Bank - Alex Macdonald | E80
Alex Macdonald is a Co-Founder of Velocity Black, which was acquired by Capital One for a reported $297M. Now he’s a Co-Founder and CEO of Sequel - an investment platform for the world’s best athletes. He’s also an angel investor in 40+ companies. We talk about: - One of Alex’s first jobs: buying...
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Life of a Serial Entrepreneur: From Lemonade Stands to Multi-Million Tech Startups - Lex Deak | E79
Lex Deak is a serial entrepreneur, Dragon's Den winner and founder of a venture capital firm. With his latest tech startup, Basket, he raised millions in funding to revolutionize the online shopping experience. In this episode of The Founders Lounge, we talk about: - The one thing that fuels…
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How to Build a Business Empire Off the Back of a Personal Brand - Sam G. Winsbury | E78
Sam G. Winsbury is the founder of Kurogo, the UK’s leading personal branding agency. He works closely with some of the best founders in the UK to build massive audiences with millions of views. In this episode of The Founders Lounge, we talk about: - What helped Sam start a successful business...
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These 10 Questions Will Make You a Better Founder - Matthew Stafford | E77
Matthew Stafford is an angel investor with several successful exits. He is a co-founder of 9others, a monthly problem-solving dinner event for entrepreneurs, which has been attended by thousands of founders. He’s also a co-author of the book Find Your 9 Others - The Questions To Ask Yourself As…
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£220M Raised: Fundraising Secrets & Stories from the UK's Top Pitch Expert - James Church | E76
James Church is the co-founder and COO of Robot Mascot, the UKs leading pitch agency. He's a #1 Amazon best selling author with his book, “Investable Entrepreneur”, where he shares his unique methodology for creating a pitch that convinces investors. James has been featured in Entrepreneur...
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This Investment Banker "Accidentally" Built a 7-Figure Agency in 2 Years - Alexej Pikovsky | E75
Alexej Pikovsky is the CEO and founder of Alphawell Brands, a holding company under which he currently operates a 7-figure growth agency and a fast-growing wellness ecommerce brand. Early in his career he spent two years at a $3 billion private equity fund, gained board-level experience and led a...
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How I Make 7 Figures Profit Working 6 Days a Month - Olly Richards (StoryLearning) | E74
Olly Richards is an entrepreneur, investor and author of 50+ books. He runs his £10M online education business, StoryLearning, working only 6 days a month. He started his career as a jazz musician and a teacher, and then step by step started building what’s now a massive audience and an 8-figure...
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Warzones, Mindset, Exponential Growth and Relationships - End Of Year Special 2022 | E73
End of year special episode is a mix of the best moments from our podcast in 2022. I thank all of you for taking the time and watching, and I hope you are getting massive value out of it. In this episode, we talk about warrior mentality, relationships, building businesses to be sold, and scaling…
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From War Zone in Afghanistan to Starting Multiple Businesses - Paul Blair (ArcX) | E72
Paul Blair is a military veteran turned entrepreneur. Over 20 years of experience in leadership and high-pressure situations in the military served as a great and unique background to start a business. As an entrepreneur, he has launched, grown, and sold businesses in the property, financial...
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From Selling Fake IDs to Building a €10.000.000 Business - Ryan McDaid | E71
Ryan McDaid is the co-founder of Fonez, an Irish electronics store which he took from 0 to €10M in revenue. He recently took a back seat and decided to instead focus on his property business and life coaching. Brought to you by Judge.me - the ultimate e-commerce product reviews solution. If…
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Growing From 0 to 200 Staff Within 6 Weeks - Joseph Battle (Ecovibe) | E70
Joseph (Jos) Battle is a UK-based serial entrepreneur who experienced the highest heights and the lowest lows of the entrepreneurial journey. His entrepreneurial skills and mindset were obvious already in his childhood when he started making money with various “lemonade stand” types of…
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From a Drunk Night Out to a $30M+ Startup Exit - Nick Telson (DesignMyNight, Trumpet) | E69
Nick Telson is a London-based serial entrepreneur, angel investor, podcaster, startup mentor, and public speaker. He’s currently a co-founder of a new B2B sales tool, trumpet, host of the Pitch Deck podcast, and a co-founder of an angel investing venture arm, Horseplay Ventures. He previously...
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Behind the Scenes of a Multimillion Venture Studio That’s De-risking Startups - Jordan Schlipf | E68
Jordan Schlipf is a serial tech entrepreneur and early-stage investor. Today, he’s the founder & CEO of the Rainmaking Venture Studio, the world's first investment-only Corporate Venture Builder. They raised tens of millions of Pounds to de-risk the process of building new businesses by building...
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From 0 to 1.000.000 EUR in 2 Years With Digital Products - Primoz Bozic | E67
Primoz Bozic is the co-founder and CEO of WeCreateCourses - an agency producing educational digital products in collaboration with experts. In two years they took the company from 0 to 1 million EUR revenue with very healthy profits and serving tens of thousands of customers. Brought to you by...
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Building a Portfolio of Small Businesses and Going From 0 - 100k Followers at 24 - Alex Banks | E66
Alex Banks is the founder of the Through the Noise newsletter and Tribescaler SaaS business. After studying finance & accounting at one of the world's most reputable universities, he didn’t find a comfortable job like most of his classmates. Instead, he mastered social media, content writing, and...
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Raising £10M+ to Build a SaaS Business Based on Psychological Research - Nick Mason (Turtl) | E65
Nick Mason is the founder and CEO of Turtl. He always had an interest in psychology, which led him to take some of the psychology research insights and build them into a B2B SaaS business. Turtl was started in 2015 and had been successfully growing since then. They’ve recently raised a £10M…
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From £0 to Tens of £M Exit, Buying Businesses & 6-Figure Side Hustles - Charlie Carpenter | E64
Charlie is a seasoned entrepreneur, mainly focused on mobile app opportunities. He started his first business straight out of university. One of his next businesses, Kite, was acquired for 10s of millions of Pounds by Canon. Now, he’s building Joy, the most trusted parenting platform that…
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Sold His Biz At 27 For Tens Of Millions £££, Here’s What Makes Him Successful - Tim Armoo | E63
Timothy Armoo was the founding CEO of the innovative influencer marketing agency Fanbytes which he started when he was 21 and sold for tens of millions of pounds when he was 27. Timo started his first company at 14 and his second at 17 which he sold 11 months later to Horizon Media. He was named…
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The 4 Pillars of Peak Performance, Why You Need Haters & Meeting Andrew Tate - Oliver Anwar | E62
Oliver Anwar helps entrepreneurs and high performers get to the best shape of their life with his coaching programs. If you’re interested in fitness & lifestyle for peak performance, running a coaching business, personal brand, and audience building, then you’ll love this episode. In this…
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Building High Performing Teams And Avoiding Burnout - Kosta Kolev (Calliper) | E61
Kosta Kolev is the Co-Founder of Calliper, a data analytics platform making data accessible and actionable for every team. Kosta has built and launched new businesses and products across London, Hong Kong, and Berlin. He also works as an advisor helping startups and corporates overcome product,...
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Web3 Practical Use Cases, Opportunities & How To Get Involved - Conor Svensson (Web3 Labs) | E60
Conor Svensson is the founder and CEO of Web3 Labs where they work with organizations to define and execute their Web3 strategy. Their clients include Microsoft, J.P. Morgan, and Vodafone. He’s also the author of the best-selling book, the Blockchain Innovator’s Handbook, and host of the Web3...
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Raised $20M to Buy & Build the Most Desirable Ecom Brands of Tomorrow - Ben Fletcher | E59
Ben Fletcher is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the business. He’s currently the Co-Founder & CEO of The Mothership where they buy eCommerce businesses and grow them into the most desirable brands of tomorrow. After selling his eCommerce wine business in 2013, he…
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Behind the Scenes of a 2-Person VC Fund with 120+ Investments - Vedika Jain (Weekend Fund) | E58
Vedika Jain is the Chief of Staff at Weekend Fund, which she runs together with Ryan Hoover, the founder of Product Hunt. They write $100k-300k checks into early-stage startups around the world across consumer and B2B. To date they have invested in over 120 startups, they have over 350 Limited...
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£10M Ecommerce & Ferraris at 24, Now Building a Psychedelic Wellness Brand - Matt Kelly | E57
Matt Kelly is a serial eCommerce entrepreneur. At 24 he built and scaled two brands to £10M in annual revenue and was living his best life. Until everything crashed as a result of too fast scaling and a number of unfortunate events. He had to sell his Ferrari, and move out of his penthouse...
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On Starting a Podcast, Burnout & Lessons from 60+ Indie Founders Interviews - James McKinven | E56
James McKinven is an “indie hacker” trying to figure out how to make a living online, doing what he loves. He runs Podpanda, a premium, done for you, podcast production studio. He runs the Indie Bites podcast, where he speaks to indie founders about how they've started their profitable internet...
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Serial Entrepreneur, #1 Podcaster & One of UK’s Top Angel Investors - Dan Murray-Serter | E55
Dan Murray-Serter is a serial entrepreneur, #1 podcaster, angel investor community builder, and an avid mental health advocate. With over 50 investments he’s one of the UK’s top angel investors, predominantly active in health & wellness, sustainability, the sharing economy, and Web3 space. His...
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From 4-Hour Workweek to #1 Shopify App with Millions in Revenue - PJ Celis (CEO, Judge.me) | E54
Peter-Jan "PJ" Celis is the founder and CEO of Judge.me - a product reviews app for Shopify. Judge.me is the #1 app on the Shopify app store, which is impressive. But what’s even more impressive is that PJ achieved this without any external investments (many of his competitors did), with a...
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2 Exits, Now Building One of the UK’s MOST DISRUPTIVE Startups - Adam McCann (CEO, Claimer) | E53
Adam McCann is the Founder and CEO of Claimer, one of the most disruptive and innovative businesses in the UK, according to Startups 100. Adam started his first business whilst at uni - a website that published news and reviews about video games. He grew this to become one of the largest video…
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Lessons from Losing €1.000.000 on a Failed SaaS Product - Neyts Zupan | E52
Neyts (Nejc) Zupan is a cofounder of Niteo - a decade-old SaaS studio building solutions for small businesses. Niteo started as an agency, but over time they started to focus only on their own products. They tested over 150 ideas, some were successful, some not so much. In this episode, we mostly...
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Starting and Running a Profitable NFT Business - Paul Price | E51
Paul Price is is a co-founder of Top Dog Studios and Top Dog Beach Club - and NFT project that sold out 8000 items when they launched, generating a total volume of around £1M and making it one of the top 25 projects on the OpenSea NFT marketplace at the time. In this episode, we talked about...
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Commando Mindset: Business Lessons From 10 Years in the Marines - Ben Williams | E50
Ben Williams is a former Royal Marines Commando, a published author with Penguin Business and a Co-founder of Loopin - a tool to support and empower employees. In this episode, we talked about Ben’s beginnings from a dysfunctional family and drug addiction to becoming a Royal Marines Commando...
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From 0 to $1M ARR in One Year With a Highly Profitable SEO Agency - Jeremy Moser | E49
Jeremy Moser is the CEO of Userp, an SEO agency that he scaled from 0 to $1.000.000 in ARR (annual recurring revenue) in just one year. They’ve worked with brands like Freshworks, ActiveCampaign, Monday.com, Robinhood, etc. He also owns a SaaS business called Wordable and he occasionally writes…
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Top 3 Startup Mistakes, Getting Superfans and Doing Your Best Work - Ash Phillips | E48
Ash Phillips is the founder of Diffrnt, which is a startup accelerator that doesn’t take equity and connects a global community of founders. He’s also a startup advisor, a board member at Ecologi, an angel investor with Ada Ventures, and he wears a few other hats. In this episode we discussed…
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How to Start a SaaS Business (4 Steps From Idea to Launch) - Ch Daniel | E47
Daniel grew LegitCheck.app to 10M+ all-time users and over £200k in revenue with 0 marketing spend when he was just 23 years old. Currently, his main focus is building a no-code SaaS business Simple.ink. He’s also running the SaaS subreddit, hosting “The Usual SaaSpects” podcast and regularly...
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Building a £10M Bootstrapped Business in a Highly Competitive Market of Online Reviews - Callum McKeefery | E46
Callum McKeefery is the founder and CEO of Reviews.io, Fullpicture.io & Poet.so. In a highly competitive market of online reviews, he managed to bootstrap his business to £10M in revenue with over 65 employees globally. In the episode, he explains how they started the business, where he sees...
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E-commerce with a twist and daily habits of a startup founder - Moritz Braatz | E45
Moritz Braatz is the founder and CEO of Noah - a London-based e-commerce company selling starter kits. Their vision is to empower customers to start something new and help them navigate the first steps of their new endeavors. Noah has been bootstrapped and profitable from the start, however, the...
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How to buy a website for $1000 and sell it for $10k - James Camp | E44
James Camp is a serial entrepreneur, growth expert, and startup mentor. He sold his largest business, a strategy consulting firm, in 2020 for $31 million. Since then he has been focusing mostly on flipping websites. He typically buys content websites for a few thousand dollars, increases their...
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Building a business network, traits of successful founders & web3 - Matthew Stafford (9others) | E43
Matthew Stafford has been an angel investor since 2014. He is the creator of 9others, a network of 4,500+ entrepreneurs in 45+ cities that brings people together to share a meal and solve business problems. He also writes The Education of An Angel Investor newsletter. --- ➤ Please subscribe &…
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What starting a €2M+ tech business teaches you about life - Antti Virolainen (Sharetribe) | E42
Antti Virolainen describes himself as an adventurous entrepreneur. He’s the co-founder of a Helsinki-based startup Sharetribe, often described as “the Shopify for marketplace businesses”. Over the years Sharetribe became a well-known brand among entrepreneurs. What makes Shartribe especially...
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Zelia Leong: Building habit-forming products and finding high-profile startup advisors (PraisePal) - E41
Zelia Leong started her career in the controversial yet highly ambitious European “startup factory” Rocket Internet. After that, she co-founded a “surprise trips” startup Anywhr, which she was running successfully for a few years until they had to put it on hold during the Covid19 pandemic.…
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Elijah Toh: Scaling to $1M in 1 year without ads, hiring A players and growing Wolt - E40
Elijah currently works as a Regional Marketing Director at Wolt. He previously worked in senior growth and marketing roles at some of the fastest-growing startups in the world, such as Deliveroo, Uber, and WorldRemit. He also started his own craft beer distribution startup which he scaled to $1M…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Imagine you are friends with some of the UK’s best entrepreneurs. Now imagine you can grab a drink with each of them and casually chat about business ideas, motivations, tactics, strategies and success habits. That’s what The Founders Lounge is all about. It provides real insights into the real day-to-day lives of real founders, CEOs and other business professionals every week. Hosted by Matic Jesenovec.
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Imagine you are friends with some of the UK’s best entrepreneurs. Now imagine you can grab a drink with each of them and casually chat about business ideas, motivations, tactics, strategies and success habits. That’s what The Founders Lounge is all about. It provides real insights into the real...
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