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5 Feb 2021
#35: Michael Broughton - On great pitching and being backed by Jay-Z
This episode, we welcome Michael Broughton! Michael is a USC student on a leave of absence and cofounder of Perch, a free app that allows users to build their credit through recurring expenses such as rent, Netflix and Hulu. Coming from a military family of nine, Michael started the company out of some personal experience and in the early days of the company conducted thousands of user interviews to validate the need. So far, Perch has launched on the iOS App Store and is available for download here (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/perch-credit/id1516209753). They recently raised a $2.5M seed round and are backed by Village Capital, Citi, SoftBank, Concrete Rose Capital and Marcy Venture Partners.
We talk Perch's founding days, what goes into a great pitch, and what it's like being backed by Jay-Z and so many incredible others.
22 Jan 2021
#34: Shreyas Parab - 3 key lessons from a 3x student entrepreneur
Today, we have Shreyas Parab! Shreyas is a junior at Stanford and co-founder of Angle Global (https://angle.global/), an online education platform with the goal of teaching the world English. So far, Angle Global has struck a partnership with one of China’s largest spelling bees to provide technology to their 5 million students and have been working in collaboration with several education companies across Canada and the United States .
But this isn’t Shreyas’ first business. When Shreyas was a freshman in high school, he cofounded Spell for Success, another educational tool used by spellers across the country to train, and was the winner of Diamond Challenge (https://diamondchallenge.org/), the world’s top entrepreneurship competition for high school students. And before that, he founded the tie business NovelTie, making him the “Tie Guy” of the Greater Philadelphia Area. Through NovelTie, he has sold thousands of ties across the country and became a supplier to Walmart.
What are the top 3 lessons Shreyas has taken away from his biz endeavors? What does he mean by "package your ties?" How was Diamond Challenge monumental to his entrepreneurial journey?
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