
Now We Build
Hosted by Sam Marchant and Sam · Sam Marchant
5.0from 16 ratings
- 59
- Episodes
- 55
- Transcribed
- 16
- Ratings
- 2024
- First episode
About Now We Build
Practical guidance for founders, operators and anyone obsessed with startups. Hosted by entrepreneur-turned-investor Sam Marchant, Now We Build brings you candid conversations with the people who've actually done it - seasoned founders and operators sharing hard-won insights and actionable advice you need to build a successful startup. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Sam Marchant
- Category
- business · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Jul 2024
- Latest episode
- 23 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
55 of 59 episodes have a transcript.

23 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
The F1 Engineer who built a $450M Metaverse company - with Napster MENA CEO, Sam Huber

2 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
No customers, no business: The Fintech founders who validated before they built - with Metro Bank founder, Anthony Thomson & Fintech Venture Exec, Paul Staples

25 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
From HelloFresh to Head of Product: Why retention always beats acquisition - with Valentin Klein
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The F1 Engineer who built a $450M Metaverse company - with Napster MENA CEO, Sam Huber
Published 23 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So that took me here. And eventually I saw that there was more demand here. I made a decision to move from the UK to lead that expansion myself on the ground and started to... piggyback on the metaverse and the gaming vision that the government had here to start winning contracts. And again, that took some time, but eventually managed to stabilize the business and even get it back to its previous traction. So the biggest move was moving into the Middle East region, for sure, because that kind of gave us a new story and just new revenue and a new type of clients that were less... focus on the hype, but more focus on long-term innovation. […]
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- Sam Huber
- Anthony Thomson
- Paul Staples
- Valentin Klein
- Stephane Boghossian
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