Founders Uncut: Real Startup Stories

By Kindred Capital

The show that interviews entrepreneurs, uncovering the moments of fear and doubt that even the most successful founders face. On Founders Uncut, you'll hear how they deal with these moments. If you're... more

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November 28, 202220. Kate Ryder of Maven Clinic - Give People a Place to Grow because Companies are Only as Good as Their People
I’m here with Kate Ryder CEO of Maven Clinic. Maven have raised over $300M and is one of the only unicorn startups in women’s healthcare. Prior to founding Maven, Kate was a successful VC and a journalist.
Hear more from her on:
Building the plane while flying
Why companies are only as good as their people
Giving people a place to grow
Founder life, as a mom of three

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38min
November 14, 202219. Aron Gelbard CEO & Co-Founder of Bloom & Wild- Be Obsessed with Customer Feedback
Every year, Bloom & Wild send 6 million deliveries of plants and flowers to several million customers across 8 countries in Europe. To date they have raised over $100M with CEO & Co-Founder Aron Gelbard at the helm.
Hear more from him on:
Merging cultures when you make acquisitions
The value of founder forums
Setting up your technology for scale from day one
The importance of obsessing over customer feedback

Want to try out Bloom & Wild? Start here: https://www.bloomandwild.com/
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38min
October 31, 202218. Wemimo Abbey of Esusu - Head for Business, Heart for the World - From 326 No’s to Unicorn & Bridging the Racial Wealth Gap
I’m here with Wemimo Abbey from Esusu. Esusu raised over $140M and the company is valued at $1BN today, as a unicorn company. Their partnerships with real estate owners and operators represent 2.5 million units across 50 different states and they are helping people improve their credit score with the rent that they pay. They are leveraging data to help bridge the racial wealth gap in the United States.
Hear more from him on:
Why You should Raise in a Position of Strength
Navigating Fundraising as a Minority Statistic Founder
Justice Capitalism - Giving People a Fighting Chance
Building Your Mansion On a Solid Foundation
Friendship Being the Antidote to All Life’s Challenges
Head for Business, Heart for the World

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35min
October 17, 202217. James Lochrie, The Language Founders Speak
With me today is James Lochrie, Co-founder of Wave, which sold to H&R Block. He now runs a venture firm called Thin Air Labs.
Hear from him on:
The Language Founders Use
Should You Lie to Yourself?
Taking Control of Your Board
An Inevitably Better Future

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41min
October 03, 202216. Hugo Renaudin, Co-founder & CEO of P00ls - Success Favours the Crazy, Raising $10M in One Hour, Manifesting Your Own Serendipity, Get Respect & Trust by Giving it, Managing People much Older than You
With me today is Hugo Renaudin, Co-founder & CEO of P00ls. This is his third business and he sold a prior business $250M. He also completed the largest ICO in France raising $20M in under 10 hours.
Hear from him on:
Building Team in a Post Pandemic World
Empowering Your Team
Why Following Your Team on Instagram is Better than Zoom Happy Hour
Getting Creative Brainstorming Done Remotely
Holistic Human Relationships
Guiding Principles
Manifesting Your Own Serendipity
When to Trust Your Gut
It’s Not About Being the Smartest
Success Favours the Crazy
Being the Right Type of Leader
Managing People Much Older than You
Get Respect & Trust by Giving It
Doing What You Love
Some Great Moments On His Journey
Selling the Company
Doing the largest ICO in France
Raising $10M in One Hour, $20M in <10 Hours
More Money, More Problems

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40min
September 21, 202215. Jamie Hale, CEO & Co-founder of Ladder - Earn the Right to Work on the Next Challenge, Tough Decisions on Your Shoulders - Layoffs and How to Handle, Being the Shock Absorber for the Company, Wisdom in what may be hard to hear and Joy from Work
With me today is Jamie Hale, CEO & Co-founder of Ladder, which has issued over $50BN in life insurance and raised over $100 million. Hear from him on:
The Founding Journey
Jamie’s Recurring Nightmare as a Founder
Feeling Alone Even if you Aren’t
Who is Your Cheerleader?
Shock Absorber for the Company
Mindset of Getting Better Everyday
The Feedback Vacuum
Choosing the Right Cofounder
Getting Your Teeth Kicked in Everyday
Key Learnings
Tough Decision on Your Shoulders - Layoffs
Wisdom in What May Be Hard to Hear
Managing Board as a Distributed Boss
How to Get Feedback & Accountability as a Founder
How the CEO Role Changes over Time
The Difference between a CEO & a Founder
Husband/Wife Co-founding Teams
Maintaining the Culture
Mark the Moment & Celebrate
Earned the Right to Work on the Next Challenge
Joy from Work - Applying Talent & Creativity to Problem Solving
The Scars from Failing and Getting it Wrong
Always Asking if You Are Right for the Job
Growing Talent Within
Board Culture

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36min
September 05, 202214. Natasha Vernier, CEO & Co-founder of Cable - Building a Company as You Build Your Family, Creating a Diverse Cap Table, The Operating System of Cable’s Culture, and Why It Pays Off to Be Kind
With me today is Natasha Vernier, CEO & Co-founder of Cable. Natasha was on the Monzo scale up journey as employee number 17 to over 2000 people, on their journey from 100 to over 4.5 million customers. She has now founded her own company - Cable.
Building a Company as You Build Your Family
Decision to Found the Company
IVF and Term Sheets
The Mental Journey of New Mom & Founder Life in COVID
How You Survive the Tough Moments
Your Partner As Your Cheerleader
The Founder Mindset
What She Learned on the Monzo Scale Up Journey
Lots of Ways to Start a Company
Harnessing Value from Early Angels & Investors
Anybody can do it! Let’s Solve Diverse Problems
Importance of the Right Cofounder Choice
Cable Culture & Operating System
Why Being Kind Matters
Translating Values and Principles into Behaviros & Actions
Delighting Consumers
What Surprised Her most about the Founder Journey
Diversity & Inclusion in Tech
Changing the Narrative to get a Diverse set of Founders
Building a Diverse Cap Table
Why the “Friends & Family” Round Shouldn’t Be a Thing
Lowering Angel Minimum Check Size for Diverse Investors
Buildign Cable's diverse cap table

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34min
August 22, 202213. Raj De Datta, CEO & Co-founder of Bloomreach - Coming Back from Near Death Company Experiences, Is the Planet You are On Inhabitable? Learning to Rely on Your Own Judgement, Things that are Worthwhile to Do are Hard
With me today is Raj De Datta, CEO & Co-founder of Bloomreach and bestselling author. Bloomreach has over $100M in ARR, powers $400BN of ecommerce sales and has raised over $400M. But these are just the headlines. Listen to the real story on Founders Uncut. In this episode, you will hear more from him on:

Near Death Experiences
When 25M ARR Just Isn’t enough
Telling Investors This Could Be a Zero
Realising what may be a False Dream
Culture is Tested In the Hard Times
Making Tough Decisions Early
Coming Back from Near Death
From $25M ARR back to $1M to over $100M in 6 years
Is the Planet you are Inhabiting Repairable or Uninhabitable
Finding another Planet while keeping Employees & Investors with You
Growing for 5 years without Raising - Revenue Based Growth
Hero to Zero and Zero to Hero overnight
The Founder Mindset
Why you have to be 100% in as the Leader
The Question you are not Allowed to Ask Yourself
Defining Himself as a Founder
Why You Don’t Want investors to have all their Eggs in your Basket
Relying on Yourself - In the End it’s Your Judgement
Building Early Investor Relationships
Probability of Value Destroyer VC versus Value Add
The Best Part of Being a Founder - There is Nothing You Can’t Do
The Process of Writing a Book
Things that are Worthwhile are Really Hard

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33min
July 25, 202212. Charlie Delingpole of Comply Advantage - Relentless Conviction, Failure is an Orphan and done in Silence, Let the Market Pull You, and Tough Decision at Silicon Roundabout
With me today is Charlie Delingpole, Founder and CEO of Comply Advantage - the world's leading data technology company transforming financial crime detection Comply Advantage has raised over 100M, has over 1.5k clients and is 440 people today. Charlie is also an active angel investor and recently a new dad.
Hear more from him on:
The early days of company building
Running a lending company in a downturn/credit crisis
When what you think is a tech business is really garden furniture
The choice to use his own equity in a tough situation
Tough decisions made at Silicon Roundabout
Lessons from a serial founder
That feeling of o something to nothing
Best and worst part of being a founder
Failure is an orphan and it’s done in silence
Survivorship bias and learnings from failure
Relentless conviction
Let the market fund the platform, not investors
Doing things right versus doing the right thing
Why take VC money
The right VC relationship
Want what you build to diffuse in society
Deliberate about choosing cofounder or capital partner
The intellectual promiscuity of angel investing
How angel investing affects him as an operator

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38min
July 11, 202211. Damian Kimmelman of Batelle & Rho - Perfect vs Clear & Consistent Decisions, Default to “I am Probably Wrong”, Lean into Subjectivity, The Best Founders Know Their Scent, Surround Yourself with Kind People
With me today is Damian Kimmelman, Co-founder of https://batelle.com/ (Batelle.com), https://www.rho.co/ (Rho.co) and Founders Pledge. Batelle trains parents how to put their children to bed in under 5 minutes and sleep through the night within 2 weeks, guaranteed...
Hear more from him on:
1) Decision Making in Startups
Driving to Consensus Versus Driving a Strategy
Perfect Decisions at the expense of Clear, Consistent Decisions
Frameworks for Decision Making
2) Information Theory - Lean into Subjectivity
The Shared Language of Decision Making
Default to “I am Probably Wrong”
What Actually Matters in a Startup
Navigating Culture across different types of hires
3) Diversity and the Value of Heterodox Opinions
What ACTUALLY matters in the startup journey
Long term Value Creation
Consistency in Leadership
Messaging to Company
4)The Founder Journey
What’s Misunderstood in the Founder Journey?
Navigating the Complexity of Dealing with people at scale
The Best Founders Know Their Scent
True Impact - Upstream Interventions
Why You Should Surround Yourself with Kind People

Book recommendations:
Decoding Reality - by Vlatko Vedral
The Science of Can and Can't - by Chiara Marletto
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27min

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The podcast currently has 21 episodes available.