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The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

Hear the stories, learn the proven methods, and accelerate your growth and future through entrepreneurship. Welcome toThe Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan. About the show: For over a decade,The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan has been a leading entrepreneurship podcast for open-book conversationswith, by, and forfounders.Whether you"re starting, building, or dreaming about your business,The Foundr Podcastis where you can access experienced founders who"ve been in your shoes to learn their proven

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282: InVision’s Clark Valberg on Unicorn Status,...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/12/23

How Clark Valberg and InVision are bringing founders’ creative ideas to life, and leading the way for remote workplaces. Clark Valberg can tell you the exact date that his digital product design platform, InVision, launched. It was also his wedding day. In hindsight, it’s telling that Valberg was able to successfully overlap these professional and personal milestones—InVision is known for its culture of work-life integration, with a 100% remote workforce nearing 900 employees. Eight years later,

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52:23

279: How Crowberry Capital’s Founding Team is Backing...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/11/29

Investing in the Future How three women from Iceland launched Crowberry Capital, a Nordic venture capital fund seeking to support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs. To be boldly creative, you often have to strike out on your own adventure. So that’s exactly what Hekla Arnardottir, Helga Valfells, and Jenny Ruth Hrafnsdottir did. While working together at an investment capital fund, the three women noticed a pressing need for more early-stage funding in their region. The trio wondered if

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45:05

278: Konrad Bergström’s 20-Year Journey to Creating...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/11/27

Konrad Bergström and X Shore have set out to change the boating industry, one electric motor at a time. Timing is everything for Konrad Bergström. So when he first got the idea for X Shore in 1996, he trademarked the name immediately, but didn’t launch the company he had in mind just yet. It wasn’t the right time. Bergström wanted to build safer boats, but he realized that the boating world was lagging behind the automobile industry when it came to details and design. Instead of forcing his

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51:43

277: Flashstock’s Rapid Rise From Launch to...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/11/19

Content in a Flash How Grant Munro and Flashstock created an agile solution for on-brand, custom photo and video—and reaped a big windfall. For Grant Munro, nothing felt right. He had always aspired to start his own business, but never knew what to pursue. He went on to work for larger companies as a software developer and product manager, but those paths didn’t feel quite right either. Despite not having an explicitly creative background (what with coming from tech and software development),

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58:52

276: Using Content to Build a Community, With...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/11/12

Rise of the Urban Beardsman How Eric Bandholz challenged the stereotypes of bearded men and built a booming community with Beardbrand. Eric Bandholz didn’t like being put into a box. In his former life as a financial advisor at a big bank, for example, he was expected to fit the stereotypical facade of a banker—suit, tie, clean-shaven. He didn’t like it, so he quit. With his newfound freedom, Bandholz embarked on an entrepreneurial journey, all while sporting a fresh, full beard. While he loved

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57:30

275: Riot Games Co-Founder Marc Merrill Shares the...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/11/05

The dramatic tale of how Marc Merrill and Brandon Beck set out to make a better video game, and changed the industry with League of Legends. Marc Merrill and Brandon Beck were typical college roommates. They went to class. They studied. They played video games. OK, a lot of video games. But they also shared an avid interest in business, including the business of their favorite hobby. So while other gamers helplessly yelled at their screens when a glitch popped up or they felt burned by an expensive

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40:27

274: Real Estate Mogul Grant Cardone Talks Tenacity,...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/10/28

Turning Obsession Into Success Real estate mogul Grant Cardone explains his obsessive approach to business, and his 10X Rule for goal-setting. Grant Cardone, a self-made real estate mogul, sales and marketing trainer, and bestselling author, credits his success in life to persistence and an obsession with being the best. That, and his time working at a car dealership. “The first real job I had was my sixth job,” he says of the gig. “I was fired from my first five. Fired from my sixth job. I was

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47:47

273: The Making of a Fintech Unicorn, with Airwallex...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/10/22

How Jack Zhang and the Airwallex team built a billion-dollar company in just three years. By the time he was 30, Jack Zhang had already launched more than 10 businesses, with interests ranging from coffee to real estate. While many of them were successful, Zhang never got to the point where he left his full-time job. “I just tried to do different things to see if I could achieve something or feel happy about what I was doing,” he says, “but I hadn’t really found anything I was passionate about.”

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53:45

272: The Sweet Smell of Success: From Bankrupt to...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/10/16

Suzy Batiz’s journey from bankruptcy to founding Poo-Pourri, a $100 million business that’s become a household name. For many consumers, the initial reaction to Suzy Batiz’s product is laughter. I know it was for me. I remember back in 2008, my mother waving me over to the checkout register of our favorite boutique soap shop, giggling uncontrollably. I saw the tiny bottle and laughed out loud myself. Then handed one to the cashier. After all, you just can’t walk away from a product called

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68:53

269: The Rise of a Cannabis Mogul, with Reef and...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/09/25

Cannabis King How Matt Morgan, a misfit from Montana, took the booming marijuana industry by storm. A typical life was not in the cards for Matt Morgan. Fortunately, he found an atypical career. Growing up, he was fired from every traditional job he ever had, and when he tried college, he lasted just 10 days before dropping out. Next, Morgan became an electrician apprentice at the age of 19, still hoping to find a career path that he might enjoy. But like his previous ventures, this too was

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59:08

268: How Life Coach Marie Forleo Figured Out Her...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/09/16

Figuring It Out Why Marie Forleo walked away from Wall Street to help people build lives they love. Marie Forleo was on the brink of the American dream. After graduating as valedictorian from Seton Hall University, making her the first in her family to graduate from college, she’d landed her first post-grad job on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Her peers were millionaires, and she was on track to become one, too. But that dream came crashing down after a panic attack halfway through a

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44:07

266: How Warby Parker Changed the Way We Shop for...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/09/03

Why are glasses so expensive? Dave Gilboa could not stop asking himself that question. After leaving his $700 pair of eyeglasses on an airplane while returning from Southeast Asia, he could not wrap his head around why a technology that was so archaic could cost him more than his iPhone. Within his first weeks as an MBA student at the Wharton School of Business, he repeatedly brought this question up among some of his new peers. Gilboa, along with fellow students Neil Blumenthal, Andrew Hunt, and

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265: Battle-Tested Lessons on Scaling a Fast-Growing...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/08/27

Success On Demand How Printful co-founder Davis Siksnans rose to the top by helping entrepreneurs custom print and ship products with greater speed and ease. Davis Siksnans’ motto as an entrepreneur has always been, “If you can’t find it, build it.” It’s led him to some fascinating and quirky pursuits, from building a business that sells customized friendship bracelets to launching an ecommerce store that creates motivational posters for startups. Having spent much of his career working at a

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264: How Revolve’s Founders Went from Finance and...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/08/19

Where Data Meets Denim How Revolve founders Michael Mente and Mike Karanikolas, a duo with backgrounds in finance and engineering, used data to take the fashion world by storm. You would think that finance, computer engineering, and fashion have nothing in common. But Michael Mente and Mike Karanikolas, the founders of the wildly popular online clothing company Revolve, would beg to differ. It’s true that when they first met each other at a software startup, they never thought fashion was in their

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261: How Raegan Moya-Jones Built a $100M Baby Blanket...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/07/29

Against the Odds How Raegan Moya-Jones built a $100 million business from the ground up—no fancy MBA required. Raegan Moya-Jones was an Aussie in New York City, pregnant with her first daughter, and she couldn’t find the right baby blanket. Every Australian mother from time immemorial had swaddled her baby in a cotton muslin blanket, and Moya-Jones wanted to do the same. But no matter where she looked, she couldn’t find one. Rather than simply becoming frustrated by the futile search, she had an

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43:20

260: How Nimble’s Jon Ferrara Used Partnerships and...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/07/22

Back in the Game How Nimble’s Jon Ferrara returned to the startup world to revolutionize customer relationships for a second time, all while maintaining a life he loves. Jon Ferrara was frustrated. As a young computer software salesman and son of an entrepreneur, he firmly believed that one of the most vital aspects of business was relationship building. But in the 1980s, managing those relationships was a giant pain. He was stuck fumbling with paper leads, appointment calendars, spreadsheet

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50:47

259: Taking on Google, with Gabriel Weinberg, Founder...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/07/18

Taking on Google Gabriel Weinberg has made it his mission to protect internet privacy, and his scrappy Google competitor DuckDuckGo is leading the charge. Everything we do online is tracked. Searching, browsing, shopping, even navigating. Most of us have grown accustomed to this. Although we may acknowledge now and then that it makes us uncomfortable, we haven’t changed our habits. Maybe we’ve become too reliant on our preferred online services for basic day-to-day tasks. Or maybe we don’t even

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258: The Story Behind Game-Changing Travel Brand...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/07/09

Selling Luggage and a Lifestyle How Steph Korey and Jen Rubio co-founded a luggage company for the modern adventurer that is taking the world by storm. Jen Rubio called her friend Steph Korey to vent about an irritating, expensive problem that just about any frequent flyer has endured at some point. She had a busted carry-on. Rubio was suffering from suitcase-demolition blues, and Korey wasn’t sure what brands to recommend. So Rubio texted a dozen of their trendiest, travel-savvy friends—the kind

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257: How Ryan Hoover Grew Product Hunt From Humble...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/07/02

Hunting for the Next Big Thing: How Ryan Hoover established an online home for tech geeks that changed the way makers get inspired, recruit, and launch their products. When he wasn’t overseeing the gumball machines at his parents’ video game store as a kid or pushing carts at a home improvement store as a teen, Ryan Hoover was tinkering with tech. As personal technology advanced, and new programs and applications exploded, Hoover and his friends were fairly obsessed with whatever was emerging from

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44:05

256: How The Meet Group CEO Geoff Cook Built An...

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan ·

2019/06/25

A Digital Meet Cute How Geoff Cook linked up dating apps and live-streamed video to form a happy and profitable relationship. Geoff Cook has built a small empire of successful meeting and dating apps—beginning long before anyone ever swiped right on Tinder—by following a philosophy of fearlessly trying new things. “Ten years from now, what will I have regretted—losing half a million dollars or not having done the thing that I wanted?” Of course, the fact that he has a half a million dollars to

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