Youssef Darwich co-founded Hapi, a business that helps parents achieve financial security for their children. Before becoming a startup founder he led the product efforts for Octopus Wealth and was the second employee at Tide - the leading SME challenger bank. 

When he’s not solving problems in the financial services, he can be found performing renditions of Moana in his living room with his daughter, Zaina.

In this episode, Amrit and Youssef discuss learning how to be patient, making decisions for the long-term and defining your startup culture.

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Dishpatch

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Simon Hay started Firefly with a school friend at age 15, beating Mark Zuckerberg in the age stakes! He designed the Firefly learning software to try and solve his own frustrations as a student. What started as revision procrastination has since grown to a global business helping students in 35 countries learn from home.

He is also dad to Angus and Aidan who are 4 and 8 months.

In this episode, Amrit and Simon discuss product market fit, how your attitude to risk changes and the perils of not being good at being bad at things.

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This week’s Startup Shout Outs:

Third Space Learning

EdPlace

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Fred Destin is the founder of Stride.VC, a London-based seed-stage tech fund that is made up of a team of dedicated venture investors backing small teams of passionate entrepreneurs. He was also the lead investor and board member for companies such as Cazoo, Zoopla, Deliveroo, Pillpack, Integral Ads, Secret Escapes and others. His portfolio has a total enterprise value of more than $20BN.

In this episode, Amrit and Fred explore using risk to help your children develop, ritual forming as a way to connect and the difference between focusing on the outcomes rather than the journey.

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This week’s Startup Shout Outs:

Landscape Ventures - www.landscape.ventures

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Matt Reynolds is a founder, strength coach and family man. In this episode, Matt explains how it all gets done...with time left over at the end of the day.

Amrit and Matt explore how methods, such as using the pomodoro technique for productivity and the 'black box' approach to output, can be applied just as successfully to homeschooling your kids and how being a CEO is about ‘working on the company not just in the company’.

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This week's Startup Shout Outs:

• The Art of Manliness
• You Need a Budget

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Pete Ward is a serial entrepreneur who has ventured from international travel social networks to health and ageing tech. His latest endeavour, Humanity, is on a mission to extend human lifespan by monitoring your rate of ageing and helping you understand the actions you can take to slow it down, or even better, reverse it. 

In this episode, Pete reflects on almost going bust 15 times, reveals how he’s developed a daily routine for optimum wellness and productivity, and explains his proactive approach to therapy and mental health development.

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This weeks Startup Shout Outs:

Mindstone

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Rob Walling is a serial entrepreneur and VC who’s founded multiple companies, runs an accelerator, and keeps coming back for more. In this episode, Amrit asks - why go through such a testing process of starting a company from scratch time and time again? Well, he’s also father to three kids, so is clearly comfortable with adapting to new challenges!

This week, Rob shares his experiences of how flexible working can have its drawbacks as well as it’s obvious benefits. He also shares how he’s trying to teach his children valuable entrepreneurial life lessons such as how pushing through the work you don’t like will reward you down the line.

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This weeks Startup Shout Outs:

Diversify Tech

Rob's Podcast: Startups for the Rest of Us

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We’re starting off season 2 with a guest that needs no introduction, Dan Murray-Serter! You may know him as host of Secret Leaders, the UK’s #1 Business Podcast, and co-founder of wellness company Heights. Alongside this he’s an angel investor, and he helps other founders succeed through his startup network Foundrs. In this episode, Dan explains how he discovered that feeding his brain with proper nutrition cured his chronic insomnia and paved the way for Heights. Amrit and Dan also explore how, not taking care of your own wellbeing, can affect your ability to be a good leader and father.

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This weeks Startup Shout Outs:

Oatsu

Nix & Kix

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Welcoming our first startup mum this week… Rachel Carrell! Rachel is the founder and CEO of Koru Kids, a childcare tech startup. It was only when Rachel had her first baby that she realised how limited childcare options were in London. The idea for Koru Kids was born out of her frustrations! In this episode, Rachel and Amrit examine the many parallels between managing a team and bringing up kids, such as making sure they both have autonomy and purpose. Rachel also gives us some insights on how Koru Kids successfully navigated the challenges of the pandemic. 

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This weeks Startup Shout Outs:

Little Village

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Ben Hay leads operations at Collective Benefits, a rapidly-growing insurtech on a mission to make independent work, work for everyone. It’s a noble path, and one that found Ben rather than the other way round! In his chat with Amrit, Ben discusses the importance of generosity, building a great network and not being afraid to reach out for help. 

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What’s stopping you from taking the leap into setting up your business? Maybe it’s just a small fraction of us destined for an entrepreneurial journey - there’s only one Mark Zuckerberg right? Author and entrepreneur Carl Reader wants everyone to know that business isn’t difficult - and that we don’t all need to found a unicorn. During this chat with Amrit, he argues that entrepreneurialism isn’t presented as a viable option to our kids - and how that needs to change - and they discuss some of the practicalities around taking the first step along the entrepreneurial journey.

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This weeks Startup Shoutouts:

Progression App - define and measure career growth

Young Enterprise - Driving Employability & Financial Education Skills in Schools.

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