Founders For Good

Michal Nachmany has dedicated over 12 years of her life to the fighting the global Climate Crisis. She is an internationally recognised climate policy and governance expert. 

In 2021, Michal set up Climate Policy Rader. A not-for-profit, open data startup, leveraging the latest in machine learning and NLP technology to build the world’s first global database of climate policy and legislation. The best part it’s free, so every government and policymaker around the world can make better decisions when it comes to climate change.

Highlights:

5.18: Michal witnessing the lack of "good" data being used to make policy decisions

8.10: How technology could accelerate the mapping of global climate policies 

10.05: Why open-source and not-for-profit is the best way to achieve climate justice

12.20: What exactly is a Community Interest Company (CIC) and how does that affect funding?

20.10: Why partnerships and collaboration are key to growing the user base  

25.55: The difficulty in building a team that can create the concept you've created in your head

29.23: The future is “self-driving policy” 

36.18: Helping the world’s largest emitter make better climate policy decisions

39.30: What does Michal look out for in the people they hire? 

41.23: As a not-for-profit how does Climate Policy Radar attract top talent? 

Our Host: 

Craig Turner. Founder of Confido Talent, a business that helps Tech For Good startups to scale their product, design and engineering teams.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigturner7/ / www.confidotalent.com / [email protected] 

Our Guest:

Michal Nachmany, Founder and CEO of Climate Policy Radar.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michalnachmany / https://climatepolicyradar.org/ 

Our Sponsor:

Jobs For Good. The only job platform to find the best jobs in sustainability, impact and much more.
www.jobsforgood.io / https://bit.ly/3wjwJa0 

Our Producer:

Jabriel Al-Suhaimi. Jabriel is a podcast aficionada, editing and producing podcasts for many, including himself.
https://www.jabrielalsuhaimi.com/ / https://twitter.com/jabealsuhaimi 

Our Content and Marketing:

Rachel Loosley, Content and Marketing Manager at Confido Talent.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelloosley/ / [email protected] 

Tom Hooper has spent the last 12 years in Education, with the personal mission of making tutoring accessible and affordable to everyone. 

He built and sold his first EdTech startup Brighstpark in under 3 years to TES Global.

In his current venture Third Space Learning (TSL), Tom has pioneered a new tutoring model leveraging global talent to provide one-to-one tutoring to the children that need it the most. TSL work directly with schools to help disadvantaged children to catch up on their education and obtain the best grades possible, a challenge that has only been amplified by the pandemic. 

Highlights:

4.12: Tom wanting to build a social enterprise, exploring the education market, and creating a new model for affordable tutoring

6.57: Bootstrapping his first business Brightspark, selling the business in under 3 years and why Tom didn’t see it as a success 

10.58: How did Tom apply his learnings from Brightspark to Third Space Learning?  

14.05: How does Third Space Learning work and how does it ensure the biggest impact on children and their learning? 

25.40: How the team went from focusing too much on hitting sales targets and to investing in long term sustainable sales. 

32.40: The challenge of demonstrating value with a product that has multiple users. (Teachers, head teachers, tutors and children).

37.16: Why building a strong team culture and leadership team is the only support system you need as a solo Founder

40.30: Why you shouldn’t try and systemize values and culture

46.36: The challenge of transitioning from generalist startup to larger business with functional capabilities and design. 

53.22: How does Third Space Learning compete for talent?

Our Host: 

Craig Turner. Founder of Confido Talent, a business that helps Tech For Good startups to scale their product, design and engineering teams.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigturner7/ / www.confidotalent.com / [email protected] 

Our Guest:

Tom Hooper, Founder and CEO of Third Space Learning.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomhoop/  / www.thirdspacelearning.com  

Our Sponsor:

Jobs For Good. The only job platform to find the best jobs in sustainability, impact and much more.
www.jobsforgood.io / https://bit.ly/3wjwJa0 

Our Producer:

Jabriel Al-Suhaimi. Jabriel is a podcast aficionado, editing and producing podcasts for many, including himself.
https://www.jabrielalsuhaimi.com/ / https://twitter.com/jabealsuhaimi 

Our Content and Marketing:

Rachel Loosley, Content and Marketing Manager at Confido Talent.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelloosley/ / [email protected] 

From an early age Adnan had a flair for business, secretly building his first company whilst still at school until he needed his parents to sign the contract of sale as he was only 17. He went on to scale and successfully exit his second venture CarThrottle. 

Now, he’s using his hard-earned startup knowledge to build MindLabs, a mobile and video first, consumer app focused on making the world a happier place.

Adnan chats to us about his entrepreneurial mindset, scaling his first two businesses, creating a mental health product, building a world class consumer app, his founder journey and how to hire for a growing tech for good business.

Highlights:

1.10: Adnan’s journey intro entrepreneurship and early success in exiting his first two ventures

5.00: What learnings did Adnan take from his first two ventures into MindLabs

6.55: For someone with no background/education in mental health, what attracted Adnan to the space? 

8.45: What is MindLabs? How does their product help people improve their mental health?

14.35: Adnan shares his tips on building a world-class, mobile-first, consumer app.  

20.35: How can MindLabs leverage health data and bio-markers to push the boundaries of their product?  

24.30: Adnan’s tips on how you can create daily habits for a healthier mind

26.50: Adnan’s experience of being a founder and why he’d never do another startup without a co-founder 

29.01: How has Adnan gone about building a tech for good startup?

36.50: How do MindLabs differentiate themselves in a competitive hiring market? How to run a great hiring process. 

38.58: How have MindLabs grown their team to 20 people so far? What can you do to increase inbound candidate traffic in the early startup stages? 

41.30: How does Adnan assess and select recruitment partners?  

44.45: When is the right time to start thinking about building out your own internal talent function? 

Our Host: 

Craig Turner. Founder of Confido Talent, a business that helps Tech For Good startups to scale their product, design and engineering teams.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigturner7/ / www.confidotalent.com / [email protected] 

Our Guest:

Adnan Ebrahim, Founder and CEO of MindLabs. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adnanebrahim/ / www.wearemindlabs.com  

Our Sponsor:

Jobs For Good. The only job platform to find the best jobs in sustainability, impact and much more.
www.jobsforgood.io 

Our Producer:

Jabriel Al-Suhaimi. Jabriel is a podcast aficionada, editing and producing podcasts for many, including himself.
https://www.jabrielalsuhaimi.com/ / https://twitter.com/jabealsuhaimi 

Our Content and Marketing:

Rachel Loosley, Content and Marketing Manager at Confido Talent.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelloosley/ / [email protected] 

Sanjay Lobo MBE is the Founder and CEO of onHand, an all-in-one tool to engage employees in local volunteering and climate action. Sanjay’s been recognised for the national Entrepreneur For Good Award, plus onHand were named the No.1 Tech For Good Company in 2021.

Sanjay chats about his journey into entrepreneurship, how helping his dad gave him the idea for onHand, growing the business, how hard it is being a solo founder and how to grow and hire for a Tech For Good startup.

Highlights:

1.20: Sanjay’s background and career journey – getting stuck in Law, taking a job in Barcelona and catching the startup bug

8.24: The onHand story – how helping his dad with his local shopping snowballed into onHand…

14.17: How COVID and the threat to the elderly changed the onHand business model

18.30: What is onHand? Sanjay explains…

25.47: How do you grow a social impact business like onHand? What are the best channels? 

29.42: How do you keep the vulnerable and users safe?

38.10: Why Sanjay thinks onHand has the potential to be “the tool for anyone in the world to do eco or social good” in the next decade

39.22: Being a first-time Founder and why Sanjay in hindsight would have done it with a Co-Founder

43.16: Sanjay’s top 3 proudest moments 

46.50: How companies like OLIO have paved the way for how to build and grow a tech for good startup

54.06: How do onHand compete in a competitive hiring market? 

Our Host: 

Craig Turner. Founder of Confido Talent, a business that helps Tech For Good startups to scale their product, design and engineering teams.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigturner7/ / www.confidotalent.com / [email protected] 

Our Guest:

Sanjay Lobo, Founder and CEO of onHand. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjaylobo/ / www.beonhand.co.uk 

Our Sponsor:

Jobs For Good. The only job platform to find the best jobs in sustainability, impact and much more. 

www.jobsforgood.io 

Our Producer:

Jabriel Al-Suhaimi. Jabriel is a podcast aficionada, editing and producing podcasts for many, including himself. 

https://www.jabrielalsuhaimi.com/ / https://twitter.com/jabealsuhaimi

Our Content and Marketing:

Rachel Loosley, Content and Marketing Manager at Confido Talent.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelloosley/ / [email protected]