Every week, join Josh Davey and Alex Dunning, as they present you with inspiring and candid conversations from the best entrepreneurs, investors and leaders right now. This is a podcast powered by Seedrs, Europe's largest equity crowdfunding platform.
Go Fund Yourself Podcast by Seedrs
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Every week, join Josh Davey and Alex Dunning, as they present you with inspiring and candid conversations from the best entrepreneurs, investors and leaders right now. This is a podcast powered by Seedrs, Europe's largest equity crowdfunding platform.
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January 31, 2022
Ken Nguyen: Making the private markets public
<p>Ken Nguyen is the co-founder and CEO of <a href="https://republic.com/"><u>Republic</u></a>.</p> <p>Republic is a fintech firm that enables anyone to invest in private markets. In 6 years, Ken took the company from $1 million in investment deployed, to over $600 million in 2021.</p> <p>Ken and his family migrated from Vietnam to the US in his early years. He started his career as a Securities Attorney (yes, we have a thing for lawyers) before joining AngelList as their General Counsel.</p> <p>At AngelList, he discovered he wanted to do more. He wanted to make investing accessible to anyone, no matter their background.</p> <p>So he left his high-profile job without any plans set, just a vision.</p> <p><strong>In this interview with Ken, we discussed:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The initial fundraising journey for Republic</li> <li>The vicious fight to normalise equity crowdfunding in the US</li> <li>The different mindsets between the UK and US in adopting crowdfunding</li> <li>How Ken maintains excitement for the future as an entrepreneur</li> <li>The future vision of being the biggest financial household name</li> </ul> <p><u>Useful links:</u></p> <p>Connect with Ken Nguyen <a href="https://twitter.com/kendrickesq"><u>here</u></a>.</p> <p>Invest in cool startups on Seedrs <a href="https://www.seedrs.com/invest/raising-now?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=kennguyen_gofundyourself"><u>here</u></a>.</p> <p>Capital at risk.</p> <p>If you are an entrepreneur or investor, and you’re ready to dive into the world of crowdfunding, get in contact with us today <a href="https://www.seedrs.com/raise/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=kennguyen_gofundyourself"><u>here</u></a>.</p>
January 24, 2022
From homeless to multi-million Edtech company with Austen Allred
<p>Austen Allred is CEO and co-founder of Bloomtech, an online platform that educates future software engineers and scientists for free. In exchange, Bloomtech alumni give a share of their future income for two years.</p> <p>Austen also never enjoyed or appreciated academia. A native of rural Utah, it was not something he felt connected to. But one thing he knew for sure was that he wanted to live and work in Silicon Valley. Oh, and work in tech.</p> <p>But he didn’t have the money to do that. So what did he do?</p> <p>He moved anyways and slept in his two door Honda Civic whilst working a full time job.</p> <p>Problem 2: he didn’t have the money to start Bloomtech.</p> <p>He had to get creative. Austen co-founded a media platform named GrassWire and co-authored Secret Sauce, a growth-hacking textbook which quickly became a best-seller. This provided him with the personal seed money ($250,000) to create and launch Bloomtech in 2018. As well as the support and experience from being part of the 2017 Y-Combinator cohort.</p> <p>What began as a monthly cohort of 20 people, turned into 250 people a month. They have since graduated over 3000 students. The majority of those placed into high-paid jobs at companies like Apple and Google. The team includes 40 full time employees and 80 part time.</p> <p>Sharing his rewarding moments and success stories, you feel inspired by his motivation to help people financially.</p> <p><strong>“It’s not about the stats, it’s about that girl who finally has her own bedroom for the first time.”</strong></p> <p>Listen to the full story of Austen Allred and Bloomtech here.</p> <p><u>Useful links:</u></p> <p>Discover more about Austen Allred <a href="https://www.austenallred.com/"><u>here</u></a>.</p> <p>Invest in cool startups on Seedrs <a href="https://www.seedrs.com/invest/raising-now?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=austenallred_gofundyourself"><u>here</u></a>.</p> <p>Capital at risk.</p> <p>If you are an entrepreneur or investor, and you’re ready to dive into the world of crowdfunding, get in contact with us today <a href="https://www.seedrs.com/raise/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=austenallred_gofundyourself"><u>here</u></a>.</p> <p>Don’t forget to leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts with the chance to win a £50 voucher from a brand of your choice!</p>
January 17, 2022
Martha Lane Fox’s £577 million Lastminute.com empire
<p>Martha Lane Fox is the founder of Lastminute.com. A period in her life which she describes as ‘total chaos’.</p> <p>At 25 years old, with co-founder Brent Hoberman, she embarked on a very exciting journey creating one of the first European startups combining e-commerce and travel.</p> <p>However, when you’re the first to do something, there’s always a lot of naysayers. People didn’t think Lastminute.com was going to be successful. Little did they know they were just getting started. In 2005, they sold the company for £577 million.</p> <p>Martha took what she had built with Lastminute.com to create GDS (Government Digital Service). This is a section inside the Cabinet Office of the British government responsible for improving access to online public services.</p> <p>Martha's other interests are explored in this episode, including how technology and the internet can be improved for everyone in the UK, women and venture capital, and Martha's future vision for Dot Everyone, her most recent venture.</p> <p><u><strong>Useful links:</strong></u></p> <p>Discover more about Martha Lane Fox <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Lane_Fox"><u>here</u></a>.</p> <p>Invest in cool startups on Seedrs <a href="https://www.seedrs.com/invest/raising-now?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=marthalanefox_gofundyourself"><u>here</u></a>.</p> <p>Capital at risk.</p> <p>If you are an entrepreneur or investor, and you’re ready to dive into the world of crowdfunding, get in contact with us today <a href="https://www.seedrs.com/raise/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=marthalanefox_gofundyourself"><u>here</u></a>.</p> <p>Don’t forget to leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts with the chance to win a £50 voucher from a brand of your choice!</p>
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