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The Founders Lounge

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.

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All Episodes

01:24:18

From a Drunk Night Out to a $30M+ Startup Exit - Nick...

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2022/11/22

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 co-founded DesignMyNight and managed to grow that to 100+ employees, 15,000 SaaS customers, and 8m monthly uniques on the website before they exited for $30-40M. In this episode, we talk about: How a drunk

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01:34:36

Behind the Scenes of a Multimillion Venture Studio...

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2022/11/15

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 them in partnership with large corporations. In this episode, we talk about: Jordan’s story Jordan’s first successful business London’s startup scene through the years What is a venture studio How

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01:07:05

From 0 to 1.000.000 EUR in 2 Years With Digital...

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2022/11/08

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 Judge.me - the ultimate e-commerce product reviews solution. If you’re looking for a job in an inspiring, profitable, and fast-growing UK-based startup, check out https://careers.judge.me. --- ➤ Please

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01:07:49

Building a Portfolio of Small Businesses and Going...

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2022/11/04

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 storytelling. In only 10 months he grew his Twitter account to 100k followers and his newsletter to over 13k subscribers - with zero advertising spend! In this episode, we talk about: Why start a business

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00:58:53

Raising £10M+ to Build a SaaS Business Based on...

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2022/10/18

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 series A investment round. Their clients include Bloomberg, Cisco, Allianz, Capita, Baker McKenzie, and many others. In this episode, we talk about: Building an MVP for a technical product Getting the first

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01:11:03

From £0 to Tens of £M Exit, Buying Businesses &...

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2022/10/12

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 provides essential information, memories, and services for young families. In this episode, we talk about the following: - Charlie’s first business - jumping on the mobile internet trend - Advice for networking

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01:17:26

Sold His Biz At 27 For Tens Of Millions £££, Here’s...

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2022/10/04

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 on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his achievements in media and marketing. He’s been featured by BBC, Forbes, Adweek, Business Insider, and TEDx, and won awards, including the Huffington Post Entrepreneur

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01:05:50

The 4 Pillars of Peak Performance, Why You Need...

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2022/09/28

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 episode, we talk about: Oliver’s story from a regular fitness trainer to an online coach for high performers Why do I constantly screenshot Oliver’s tweets Growing a Twitter audience to 60k+ followers How

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01:36:37

Building High Performing Teams And Avoiding Burnout -...

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2022/09/20

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, strategy, and growth challenges. If you’re interested to learn about product management, building high-performing teams, and business frameworks then I think you’ll love this episode. --- ➤ Please

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00:59:04

Web3 Practical Use Cases, Opportunities & How To Get...

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2022/09/13

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 Innovators podcast. If you’re interested in learning more about web3 and the opportunities that blockchain technology brings, you must listen to this episode. In this episode, we talk about: How Conor

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01:20:57

Raised $20M to Buy & Build the Most Desirable Ecom...

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2022/09/06

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 founded the Fast Growth Icons series of events, bringing experienced entrepreneurs together to get practical tips to take their business to the next level. He’s been an investor in, and mentor and adviser to a

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01:11:00

Behind the Scenes of a 2-Person VC Fund with 120+...

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2022/08/30

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 Partners and they run the whole fund as a two-person team. Some of their notable investments include Intercom, Deel, Pipe, Moonpay, and many others. If you’d like to raise a VC investment, work for a VC fund

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01:29:46

£10M Ecommerce & Ferraris at 24, Now Building a...

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2022/08/23

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 apartment in central London and he was struggling with his mental well-being. But after a few months, he picked himself back up and he’s now building an eCommerce wellness brand of the future - Space Goods. In

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01:03:56

On Starting a Podcast, Burnout & Lessons from 60+...

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2022/08/16

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 businesses. And he has a few other small businesses, including an online course about podcasting and a handcrafting leather wallets ecom store. In this episode, we talk about: Managing multiple businesses

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00:53:48

Serial Entrepreneur, #1 Podcaster & One of UK’s Top...

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2022/08/09

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 focus currently is building Heights - a brain care company currently valued at £30.000.000. In this episode, we talk about: From anxiety and insomnia to starting one of the fastest growing companies in

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00:59:13

From 4-Hour Workweek to #1 Shopify App with Millions...

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2022/07/26

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 relatively small team of ~50 people (many of his competitors have 100s), and without doing any marketing. In this episode, we talk about: Building a tech product without raising funding Become the #1 app on the

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00:59:34

2 Exits, Now Building One of the UK’s MOST DISRUPTIVE...

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2022/07/19

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 game sites in the world. He then sold it and joined the acquiring company as a co-founder. Two years later he took that business to an 8-figure exit. Now, he’s focused on building Claimer, an online service

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01:14:31

Lessons from Losing €1.000.000 on a Failed SaaS...

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2022/07/06

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 talked about one particular project that ultimately failed after they spent almost 1.000.000 EUR on development and marketing. --- ➤ Please subscribe & share if you liked the episode ❤ ➤ Follow for business

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01:07:21

Starting and Running a Profitable NFT Business - Paul...

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2022/06/28

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 Similarities and differences between a web3/NFT business and a web2/regular business How NFT projects raise initial funding and how they continue generating revenue What does it take to start and run an NFT

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01:31:51

Commando Mindset: Business Lessons From 10 Years in...

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2022/06/21

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 Applying lessons from the army to business What is “Commando Mindset” and how anyone can develop it What is fear and how to cope with it Management and leadership in big companies --- ➤ Please subscribe &

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