May 23, 2022

050 Ignition [Remix] (feat. Guy Pearson, CEO)

54 minutes

Episode 50 | Recorded January 21, 2022

Today, we’re talking about the Artist Formerly Known as π (PI) … Guy Pearson, CEO of Ignition, about all the personal and professional goings-on in his world – marriage, funding rounds, rebranding, moving, and achieving a puppy, and what's ahead for Ignition.

Visit Ignition: https://www.ignitionapp.com/

Connect with Guy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guypearson1/?originalSubdomain=au

What's on the menu:

Haircuts – or the lack thereof

Why the rebranding?

Anatomy of a firm – Karbon is the skeleton; Ignition is the heart; the blood is Xero and Gusto; the fingers are Digits; the eyes are LivePlan...

How Ignition helps firms move toward advisory

No more “P” swag ...

Ignition – The professional-services Airbnb

The Canadian component

Integrations – Xero, Gusto, Karbon, and more

GoProposal v. Ignition = More Feature Updates?

On being an extroverted introvert, and extroverted entrepreneur

Guy’s growing pains * No Fyre Festivals here!

All about the Series C, other funding rounds, and cleaning house

Uniforms of choice – Shorts, T-shirts, and Hawaiian shirts

The real reason for Ignition – People

Round pegs, square holes, and staying true

Annihilating scope creep and sticker shock

What Guy misses about running a firm

Reading: The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations https://amzn.to/39MfsNC

Shout out to Ignition, Michael Ly, Josh Lance, Blake Oliver, Talbot Sayer, John Lennon, Eddie Vedder, Ignition’s design and marketing teams, Gusto, Thomson Reuters, Intuit, Xero, Zapier, James Ashford, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Tiger Global, EVP, LivePlan, Jirav and all who we appreciate but may have failed to mention here!

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