The FinTech Founder Journey.: Recent Episodes
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We explore FinTech and the Founders that power it. We do this through interviewing leaders in the space and diving deep into topics that relate to building great FinTech businesses and products. As seasoned product builders, we also bring our own experience to the show and share best practices insights and experience from a building perspective.
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Mike shares how applying business principles and custom tools can enhance personal relationships, especially marriage, through structured weekly check-ins and goal tracking. He discusses practical methods to improve communication, alignment, and shared goals with his partner, using simple tech solutions.
keywords
relationship management, personal development, marriage, goal setting, productivity, AI tools, Claude, weekly check-in, communication, financial planning
key topics
Applying business measurement principles to marriage
Building a custom app with Claude for relationship check-ins
Weekly relationship check-ins and their benefits
Aligning on goals, finances, and personal growth
Using AI tools for practical relationship management
The importance of continuous improvement in marriage
Reflecting on wins and challenges weekly
Supporting each other's goals and needs
"Marriage is a strategic decision, like a business."
"What gets measured, gets improved."
"A 50K run is just a stubborn five."
Chapters
00:00 The Importance of Life Partnerships
02:40 Applying Business Principles to Relationships
05:54 The Weekly Us Meeting Ritual
11:19 Financial Alignment and Shared Goals
17:24 Continuous Improvement in Relationships
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In this episode, Mike Scott shares four simple but powerful frameworks for emerging leaders and middle managers in small to mid-sized businesses. He explores the trap of chasing certainty, the underrated skill of leading up, providing clarity to those you lead, and defining the leader you want to become.
keywords
leadership, management, clarity, certainty, leading up, leading down, leadership identity, decision-making, middle management, leadership frameworks
key topics
Clarity over certainty as a leadership unlock
Leading up and pulling clarity from your own leaders
Leading down and providing clarity to your team
Defining your leadership identity with three words
Using identity as a daily decision-making filter
"The pursuit of certainty doesn't really exist."
"Leading up means pulling clarity from your leader."
"Before you can expect accountability, you need to provide clarity."
Chapters
00:00 The Pursuit of Clarity Over Certainty
02:21 Leading Up: Pulling Clarity From Your Leaders
04:34 Leading Down: Providing Clarity to Your Team
06:55 Defining Your Leadership Identity
09:17 Putting the Frameworks Into Practice
resources
Essentialism by Greg McKeown - https://www.amazon.com/Essentialism-Disciplined-Pursuit-Less-ebook/dp/B00X4WHP5E
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In this engaging conversation, Mike Scott and Troye S Wallett explore personal finance, wealth building, and effective strategies for financial independence. They discuss practical systems, mindset, and first principles to help listeners optimize their financial future.
keywords
personal finance, wealth building, financial independence, investment strategies, automation, budgeting, personal wealth, financial planning, index funds, crypto
key topics
Personal wealth definition and emotional aspect
Automated financial systems and envelope method
Investment strategies: ETFs, crypto, and index funds
Importance of shared financial goals in partnerships
Adapting financial plans over different life stages
"Getting rich slowly is actually pretty easy."
"Finance is difficult, but it’s worth the effort."
"The hard things in life are the ones worth doing."
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Personal Finance
05:19 Defining Personal Wealth
10:16 Creating a Personal Finance Plan
17:09 Communication in Financial Partnerships
20:09 Investing Principles and Strategies
21:55 The Importance of a Financial Plan
27:05 Understanding Investment Strategies
32:21 The Evolution of Financial Mindset
36:48 Establishing Financial Bare Minimums
42:16 Final Thoughts on Personal Finance
resources
The Barefoot Investor - https://www.amazon.com.au/Barefoot-Investor-Scott-Pape/dp/0730385624
Profit First - https://www.amazon.com/Profit-First-Transform-Your-Binance/dp/0735214140
Morgan Housel - Psychology of Money - https://collabfund.com/blog/morgan-housel-the-psychology-of-money/
Scott Pape - The Barefoot Investor - https://barefootinvestor.com/
Warren Buffett Quote - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/warrenbuffett.asp
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In this engaging conversation, Mike Scott and Troye Wallett explore personal finance, wealth building, and effective strategies for financial independence. They discuss practical systems, mindset, and first principles to help listeners optimize their financial future.
keywords
personal finance, wealth building, financial independence, investment strategies, automation, budgeting, personal wealth, financial planning, index funds, crypto
key topics
Personal wealth definition and emotional aspect
Automated financial systems and envelope method
Investment strategies: ETFs, crypto, and index funds
Importance of shared financial goals in partnerships
Adapting financial plans over different life stages
"Getting rich slowly is actually pretty easy."
"Finance is difficult, but it’s worth the effort."
"The hard things in life are the ones worth doing."
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Personal Finance
05:19 Defining Personal Wealth
10:16 Creating a Personal Finance Plan
17:09 Communication in Financial Partnerships
20:09 Investing Principles and Strategies
21:55 The Importance of a Financial Plan
27:05 Understanding Investment Strategies
32:21 The Evolution of Financial Mindset
36:48 Establishing Financial Bare Minimums
42:16 Final Thoughts on Personal Finance
resources
The Barefoot Investor - https://www.amazon.com.au/Barefoot-Investor-Scott-Pape/dp/0730385624
Profit First - https://www.amazon.com/Profit-First-Transform-Your-Binance/dp/0735214140
Morgan Housel - Psychology of Money - https://collabfund.com/blog/morgan-housel-the-psychology-of-money/
Scott Pape - The Barefoot Investor - https://barefootinvestor.com/
Warren Buffett Quote - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/warrenbuffett.asp
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In this conversation, Mike and Troye delve into the concept of Zone Two training, exploring its physiological basis, benefits for both physical and mental health, and its application in business performance. They discuss how maintaining a Zone Two intensity can lead to improved cardiovascular health, better mental clarity, and a more regulated nervous system. The conversation emphasizes the importance of building capacity through consistent training and how this approach can be beneficial not only for athletes but for anyone looking to enhance their overall well-being and performance in various aspects of life.
Takeaways
Zone Two training is the intensity you can maintain for a long time.
It helps in regulating the nervous system and reducing anxiety.
Building capacity through Zone Two training is essential for performance.
You can engage in Zone Two training through various activities like walking, running, or cycling.
Nasal breathing is a key indicator of being in Zone Two.
Zone Two training can lead to better sleep and mental clarity.
It's important to avoid going too hard or too slow in training.
The benefits of Zone Two training extend beyond physical fitness.
A sound body and mind are crucial for success in any endeavor.
Consistency in Zone Two training can lead to significant improvements over time.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Zone Two Training
00:58 Understanding Zone Two Training
03:55 The Importance of Zone Two Training
06:54 Performance and Mental Health Benefits
09:55 Zone Two in Business Context
13:30 The Connection Between Physical and Mental Performance
19:03 Physiology Behind Zone Two Training
23:15 Practical Application of Zone Two Training
Zone Two Training, Triathlon, Physical Health, Mental Clarity, Exercise Benefits, Cardiovascular Health, Business Performance, Stress Management, Endurance Training, Healthy Lifestyle
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In this conversation, Mike and Troye delve into the critical topic of cash flow, exploring its significance in business success. They discuss the evolution of business metrics from revenue to cash flow, emphasizing the importance of understanding cash flow as a leadership and management tool. The conversation also covers practical techniques for managing cash flow, including forecasting and analyzing past cash movements. Finally, they outline seven key strategies for improving cash flow, providing actionable insights for business owners.
Takeaways
Revenue means nothing without margin.
Profit is important, but cash is the ultimate reality.
Cash flow is the movement of cash in and out of your bank account.
Understanding cash flow helps in making better business decisions.
You should focus on generating free cash flow for business success.
Increasing prices can be a quick way to improve cash flow.
Improving debtor days can significantly impact cash flow.
Cash flow management is a leadership tool, not just a finance tool.
Scenario planning is essential for effective cash flow management.
Building reserves gives businesses optionality and resilience.
Chapters
00:00 Understanding Cash Flow: The Foundation of Business Success
10:38 The Evolution of Business Metrics: From Revenue to Cash Flow
19:39 Measuring Cash Flow: Tools and Techniques
26:21 Seven Levers to Improve Cash Flow
35:25 Shifting Mindsets: From Operator to Capital Allocator
cash flow, business success, revenue, profit, financial management, leadership, cash flow management, business metrics, financial health, cash flow strategies
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In this episode, Mike and Troye delve into the complexities of accountability and habit tracking, exploring how these concepts relate to personal growth and behavior change. They discuss the importance of environment, identity, and motivation in facilitating change, while also challenging traditional views on accountability mechanisms. The conversation emphasizes the need for a supportive environment and a clear understanding of what is at stake in order to drive meaningful behavior change.
Takeaways
Accountability can be perceived differently by individuals.
Setting up the right environment is crucial for behavior change.
Identity plays a significant role in how we approach change.
Understanding what is at stake can motivate behavior change.
Habit tracking may not work for everyone; it's about finding the right mechanism.
Motivation can fluctuate; it's important to recognize where you are in the change process.
Behavior change often requires a gradual approach rather than a sudden shift.
The people you surround yourself with influence your behavior and values.
Exploring the reasons behind habits can lead to better understanding and change.
Creating a framework for change involves aligning identity, environment, and motivation.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Acknowledgment of Feelings
02:45 Exploring Accountability and Habits
05:15 The Role of Environment in Behavior Change
08:09 Identity and Commitment to Change
11:06 Motivation and Stages of Change
13:36 The Stakes of Behavior Change
16:28 Shifting Perspectives on Status and Behavior
19:29 Practical Strategies for Behavior Change
22:22 Conclusion and Framework for Change
Keywords
accountability, habit tracking, behavior change, motivation, environment, identity, personal development, mindfulness, meditation, self-improvement
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In this episode, Mike discusses the importance of focusing on two critical timeframes: the next hour and the next ten years. He shares personal anecdotes and insights on how these timeframes can guide decision-making and leadership development. By balancing immediate actions with long-term goals, individuals can enhance their leadership skills and achieve greater success.
Keywords
leadership, time management, personal development, long-term goals, immediate actions
Takeaways
- Focus on the next hour and the next ten years.
- Immediate actions should align with long-term goals.
- Identity statements can guide personal growth.
- Balancing short-term and long-term thinking is crucial.
- Intentional decisions enhance leadership skills.
- Energy management is key to success.
- Avoid living in reactive mode.
- Dreams require actionable steps.
- Consistency in actions leads to compounding benefits.
- Reflect on future self's perspective on current actions.
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In this conversation, Troye discusses the concept of identity in relation to achieving success, using the integrator metaphor to explore personal growth and the process of experimentation in defining one's path.
Takeaways
The integrator idea serves as a metaphor for process.
Identity plays a crucial role in achieving success.
Personal growth involves experimentation and self-discovery.
Understanding who you need to be is essential for success.
Troye is excited about his new approach and its potential outcomes.
The conversation emphasizes the importance of reflection over time.
Success is not just about outcomes but also about the journey.
Engaging in new experiments can lead to valuable insights.
The idea of identity is fluid and can evolve with experiences.
Troye encourages revisiting these concepts in the future.
Keywords
identity, success, integrator, process, personal growth, experimentation
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In this conversation, Mike and Troye discuss the concept of overwhelm, emphasising that it is not merely about having too much to do, but rather a lack of clarity in various aspects of life. They highlight the importance of clarity of mind, systems, priorities, and action in overcoming feelings of overwhelm and achieving better outcomes.
Takeaways
Overwhelm is not just about workload.
Clarity is essential for effective action.
Mind clarity helps in decision-making.
Systems can streamline our tasks.
Prioritizing tasks reduces feelings of overwhelm.
Knowing the next step is crucial.
A clear mindset enhances productivity.
Action clarity leads to better results.
Confusion arises from too many tasks.
Structure in systems aids in focus.
Keywords
overwhelm, clarity, priorities, action, systems, mindset
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In this conversation, Mike and Isaiah Nolte discuss the common challenges businesses face that prevent them from reaching their full potential. He emphasises the importance of leadership in identifying and addressing these challenges to unlock growth.
Takeaways
The results are massive when addressing business challenges.
There are 15 commonalities that cause businesses to hit a ceiling.
Identifying these commonalities is crucial for growth.
Leadership teams play a vital role in solving these issues.
Pulling the right levers can unlock business potential.
Sales leadership is key to overcoming obstacles.
Understanding the root causes of stagnation is essential.
Entrepreneurs must be proactive in addressing challenges.
Collaboration within the leadership team enhances problem-solving.
Unlocking potential leads to significant business growth.
Keywords
business growth, leadership, sales strategy, entrepreneurship, potential unlocking, common challenges
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In this episode, Mike discusses the practical application of the Bloom Growth Model in business, focusing on identifying key business metrics that truly matter. He shares insights from his experience with the ILN and emphasises the importance of setting realistic growth goals and weekly KPIs to drive business success.
Keywords
Bloom Growth Model, business metrics, ILN, growth goals, KPIs
Takeaways
- Identify business metrics that truly matter.
- Implement Bloom Growth Model for business success.
- Set realistic growth goals and KPIs.
- Focus on member referrals as a key metric.
- Balance profit and member experience.
- Use weekly KPIs to track progress.
- Create content that resonates with your audience.
- Apply the 95-5 budget principle for member experience.
- Build an ecosystem that feeds each other.
- Execution and communication are key to success.
Chapters
- 00:00:01 Introduction to Bloom Growth Model
- 00:00:28 Implementing Bloom in ILN
- 00:00:57 Identifying Key Metrics
- 00:01:53 Setting Growth Goals
- 00:02:50 Weekly KPIs and Execution
- 00:05:18 Balancing Profit and Experience
- 00:10:02 Referral Strategies
- 00:13:24 Member Experience and Budgeting
- 00:18:02 Content Creation and Ecosystem
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In this episode, Mike discusses the evolution of company culture as businesses grow. He emphasises the need to let go of early-stage cultural practices that no longer serve larger teams and introduces five key points to help businesses adapt. These include creating structure, evolving culture, ensuring clarity, modeling leadership, and bringing values to life. Mike shares practical advice and personal anecdotes to illustrate how businesses can navigate these changes effectively.
Keywords
company culture, business growth, leadership, structure, values
Takeaways
- Structure creates freedom and clarity.
- Evolving culture is necessary for growth.
- Clarity prevents chaos in growing businesses.
- Leadership is modeled, not outsourced.
- Values should be actionable, not just words.
- Dependency maps identify growth bottlenecks.
- Audit culture to align with growth goals.
- Trade speed for clarity to reduce chaos.
- Celebrate and criticize in context of values.
- Change is emotional but necessary for growth.
Chapters
- 00:00:02 Introduction to Cultural Evolution
- 00:01:32 The Importance of Structure
- 00:03:53 Evolving Culture for Growth
- 00:06:44 Clarity and Leadership
- 00:09:57 Living Your Values
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In this conversation, Mike discusses the practical implications of AI for small and medium-sized businesses. He emphasises the importance of organising data effectively, integrating AI into business processes, and maintaining originality and emotional intelligence in leadership. Scott highlights the need for businesses to adapt to technological changes while also recognising the enduring human elements that drive engagement and connection.
takeaways
- AI is not just for tech experts; it's for everyone.
- Organizing data is crucial for effective AI implementation.
- Appoint a data champion in your business.
- Design where AI fits in your processes.
- Run experiments to understand AI's impact.
- Creativity should come before AI assistance.
- Emotional intelligence is vital in the digital age.
- One-on-one meetings should focus on connection, not just performance.
- Recognize what will remain constant amidst change.
- Leaders must adapt to both technological and human needs.
Chapters
00:00
Introduction to AI in Business
05:36
The Role of Humans and AI Collaboration
11:38
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
keywordsAI, small business, data organization, emotional intelligence, originality, business processes, leadership, technology, productivity, change management
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In this episode, Mike delves into the art of sustainable change, exploring how small, manageable habits can lead to significant results. Drawing from personal experiences and coaching insights, Mike discusses the importance of systems over sheer willpower and the role of identity in achieving lasting transformation. Tune in to discover practical strategies for implementing change in both personal and business contexts.
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In this episode, Mike Scott dives into the importance of challenging assumptions in business. From personal anecdotes to practical advice, Mike explores how identifying and questioning assumptions can lead to better decision-making and a more resilient company culture. Tune in to discover how embracing this mindset can transform your business processes and foster a culture of psychological safety.
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In this conversation, Mike Scott and Simon Hareb discuss the creation of the Intentional Leaders Network, a program and community designed for business owners who have experienced success but seek to integrate intentionality into all aspects of their lives. They explore the challenges leaders face, the importance of accountability, and the process of self-discovery that the network facilitates. The conversation emphasizes the need for a supportive community and the tools that can help leaders achieve personal and professional growth.
Takeaways
- The Intentional Leaders Network aims to support business owners in integrating their personal and professional lives.
- Leaders often struggle with alignment between their values and actions, which the network seeks to address.
- Intentionality is crucial for sustainable leadership and personal growth.
- The program includes a pre-work phase to help individuals reflect on their values and goals.
- Cohorts provide a supportive environment for leaders to share experiences and hold each other accountable.
- The offsite experience is designed to facilitate deep self-reflection and clarity on personal identity.
- Participants are encouraged to confront hard truths and commit to their growth journey.
- The network is specifically for business owners who are ready to invest in their personal development.
- The process is iterative, allowing for continuous growth and adaptation to changing circumstances.
- Community and accountability are key components of the network's success.
Chapters
00:00
Introduction to Simon and Context of the Conversation
03:11
The Intentional Leaders Network: Concept and Purpose
06:06
Identifying the Target Audience and Their Needs
09:10
The Importance of Intentionality in Leadership
11:58
The Process of Self-Discovery and Growth
14:55
The Offsite Experience: Tools and Techniques
17:52
Building a Supportive Community for Leaders
20:59
The Role of Accountability in Personal Growth
23:49
Defining the Ideal Participant for the Network
27:09
Final Thoughts and Call to Action
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In this conversation, Mike discusses the critical importance of having open and honest discussions about equity distribution among co-founders when starting a business. He emphasises that while many assume a 50-50 split, this often leads to complications later on. Drawing inspiration from the book 'Slicing the Pie', he outlines a structured approach to fairly allocate equity based on contributions such as cash, time, resources, and intellectual property. By tracking these contributions and applying multipliers based on scarcity, co-founders can engage in meaningful discussions about equity that foster trust and transparency, ultimately leading to healthier business relationships.
Takeaways
- Equity discussions should happen early to avoid complications later.
- Assuming a 50-50 split can lead to resentment and conflict.
- Using a structured approach helps in fair equity distribution.
- Tracking contributions is essential for transparent discussions.
- Multipliers can reflect the scarcity of contributions.
- Difficult conversations are necessary for building trust.
- A Google sheet can simplify tracking contributions.
- Equity discussions should be based on data, not emotions.
- Building a high-trust relationship involves open communication.
- Avoiding difficult conversations can harm future partnerships.
Chapters
00:00
The Importance of Equity Discussions
02:11
Mechanisms for Fair Equity Distribution
06:46
Tracking Contributions and Future Discussions
11:03
Building Trust Through Transparency
Here is the book reference: https://slicingpie.com/book/
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In this episode, Mike Scott shares a personal experience of financial loss and explores the concept of reframing failure. He discusses the emotional journey following a significant loss and emphasizes the importance of separating one's identity from failures. By focusing on identity, environment, and habits, Mike provides insights on building resilience and navigating challenges in business and life.
Takeaways
- Reframing failure can lead to personal growth.
- Experiencing loss can provide clarity on what truly matters.
- Your identity should not be tied to your financial status.
- Emotional responses to loss can vary greatly.
- Building resilience involves intentional changes in identity and environment.
- Recognizing that loss is a common experience can alleviate feelings of isolation.
- Creating supportive environments is crucial for personal development.
- Habits should align with the identity you wish to embody.
- Failures can be viewed as events rather than defining moments.
- Gratitude can emerge even in the face of significant loss.
Chapters
00:00
Reframing Failure: A Personal Journey
07:02
The Impact of Loss on Identity
12:54
Building Resilience Through Identity and Environment
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In this podcast episode, Mike and Gaurav Devshamar discuss the practical applications of AI in business, addressing common misconceptions, data privacy concerns, and the accessibility of AI for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). They explore how AI empowers generalists, automates tasks, and aids in knowledge retention, ultimately transforming business operations. The conversation emphasizes the importance of adapting to rapid changes in technology and encourages business leaders to start integrating AI into their strategies.
takeaways
- AI is a hot topic and is rapidly evolving.
- Many businesses fear data privacy when considering AI.
- AI solutions are accessible for small and medium-sized businesses.
- AI can empower generalists to perform better in their roles.
- Automation of tedious tasks can save time and resources.
- Knowledge retention is crucial for business continuity.
- AI can help reduce key person dependency in organizations.
- Onboarding processes can be streamlined with AI tools.
- Businesses need to prepare for the rapid changes AI brings.
- Starting with AI can provide a competitive advantage.
titles
- Unlocking AI for Business Success
- Demystifying AI: Practical Insights for SMBs
- AI Misconceptions: What Every Business Owner Should Know
- Empowering Your Team with AI Solutions
Chapters
00:00
Introduction to AI in Business
03:13
Misconceptions About AI
06:10
Addressing Data Privacy Concerns
09:09
AI Accessibility for SMBs
12:14
Empowering Generalists with AI
14:57
Practical AI Applications for Businesses
18:02
Knowledge Retention and AI
20:52
Transforming Key Person Dependency
24:09
AI in Onboarding and Training
26:59
The Future of AI in Business
29:47
Conclusion and Call to Action
Get in touch with Gaurav on gaurav@warpdevelopment.com
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The conversation explores the importance of systems and processes in businesses, with a focus on the book 'Systemology' by David Jenyns. The main themes include the definition of systems and processes, the ideal businesses for systemization, the role of systems in reducing dependency on individuals, and the starting point for systemization in a business. The conversation also touches on the balance between systemization and creativity, the value of capturing tasks and processes, and the role of a systems champion in larger organizations. In this conversation, Mike Scott and David Jenyns discuss the importance of having a single point of accountability for systemization in a business. They emphasize the need for someone who has the most knowledge about a particular system to be responsible for documenting it. They also discuss the challenge of getting people to follow systems and offer strategies for overcoming resistance. David explains that Systemology is different from other process improvement methodologies because it focuses on capturing and making processes repeatable, rather than improving them. He encourages business owners to fall in love with the results that systems and processes bring to the organization.
Takeaways
- Clear and timely reporting on numbers and metrics is essential for businesses.
- Strong systems and processes can solve reporting problems and reduce dependency on individuals.
- Systemology is a valuable resource for understanding and implementing effective systems.
- The definition of systems and processes can vary, but they are interchangeable for the purposes of this discussion.
- Systemization works best in small to mid-sized businesses with involved business owners.
- Building a systems-driven culture is important for long-term success.
- Systems are the most valuable asset in a business, as they are not dependent on individuals.
- Systemization should aim to create consistent outcomes and cultivate a systems-driven culture.
- Systemization is not about over-optimization, but about capturing the most probable outcomes.
- Great talent is important, but businesses should not rely solely on individuals.
- Systemization can increase the value of a business and reduce risk.
- The starting point for systemization is to record and capture tasks and processes.
- Creating a culture of recording and documenting tasks is crucial.
- In larger organizations, a systems champion can drive the systemization process.
- The role of a systems champion is to make it easier for team members to document and capture processes. Having a single point of accountability is crucial for successful systemization in a business.
- The person with the most knowledge about a system should be responsible for documenting it.
- Resistance to following systems can be overcome by celebrating wins, showcasing successes, and recruiting team members who are receptive to the systems-driven approach.
- Systemology focuses on capturing and making processes repeatable, rather than improving them.
- Business owners should fall in love with the results that systems and processes bring to the organization.
Chapters
00:00
Introduction and Common Problems in Businesses
01:33
Introduction to Systemology and Guest Introduction
03:32
Defining Systems and Processes
09:13
Reducing Dependency on Individuals through Systemization
15:04
Building a Systems-Driven Culture
19:19
Systemization: From Survival to Sellable
23:15
Star
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In this conversation, Mike discusses the importance of gaining alignment within organizations and provides practical tools to achieve it. He emphasizes that without alignment, organizations lack clarity and become leaderless, resulting in inefficiency and poor performance. Scott introduces the concept of creating a vision, using the Jim Collins and Jerry Porras framework, to establish core values, purpose, big hairy audacious goals, and vivid descriptions of the desired reality. He also explores the idea of essential intent, where organizations focus on becoming excellent at one thing within a specific timeframe. Additionally, Scott highlights the Stockdale Paradox, which involves acknowledging brutal truths while maintaining a deep conviction that the organization will overcome challenges. He concludes by discussing the importance of constructive conflict and the concept of asking for support rather than agreement.
Takeaways
- Alignment is crucial for organizations to achieve clarity and avoid inefficiency and poor performance.
- Creating a vision, including core values, purpose, big hairy audacious goals, and vivid descriptions, helps establish alignment.
- The concept of essential intent focuses on becoming excellent at one thing within a specific timeframe.
- The Stockdale Paradox involves acknowledging brutal truths while maintaining a deep conviction that the organization will overcome challenges.
- Constructive conflict and asking for support rather than agreement are essential for effective decision-making and alignment.
Chapters
00:00
Introduction and the Need for Alignment
01:20
Creating a Vision for Alignment
04:06
The Concept of Essential Intent
07:48
Embracing the Stockdale Paradox
12:48
The Role of Constructive Conflict
20:55
Asking for Support, Not Agreement
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In this conversation, Mike interviews Chris Wheldon, an investor and entrepreneur, about the importance of understanding and analyzing numbers in small and mid-sized businesses.
Chris shares his experience in acquiring and investing in businesses and highlights the key metrics he looks at, including cash flow, profit, margin, cost structure, and return on capital. He emphasizes the need for business owners to have a strong grasp of their numbers to make informed decisions and ensure the sustainability of their businesses.
The conversation also touches on the value of data transparency and the benefits it brings during the acquisition process. Understanding and analyzing financial metrics is crucial for business owners and managers. It is important to measure the inputs that contribute to revenue and profit on a weekly basis, such as sales, marketing, and customer retention metrics. Monthly measurements should focus on understanding sales trends, cost structures, and budgeting for future expenses. Quarterly analysis should provide a full picture of financial performance, including working capital changes and cash flow generation. Annual reviews allow for a deeper understanding of the balance sheet and the true financial profile of the business.
The key takeaway is that while the numbers are important, they are a reflection of the decisions and actions taken by the business in serving its customers and stakeholders.
Takeaways.
- Understanding and analyzing numbers is crucial for small and mid-sized business owners to make informed decisions and ensure the sustainability of their businesses.
- Key metrics to consider include cash flow, profit, margin, cost structure, and return on capital.
- Having a strong grasp of numbers allows business owners to negotiate better deals and demand higher prices when selling their businesses.
- Data transparency and access to high-quality information are indicators of a well-run business and can attract potential investors.
- Focusing on both input metrics (e.g., lead generation, customer activity) and output metrics (e.g., financial performance) is important for monitoring business performance.
- Regularly reviewing and analyzing numbers on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis provides a comprehensive view of the business's health and progress. Measure the inputs that contribute to revenue and profit on a weekly basis
- Monthly measurements should focus on sales trends, cost structures, and budgeting
- Quarterly analysis provides a full picture of financial performance
- Annual reviews allow for a deeper understanding of the balance sheet and financial profile
- The numbers are a reflection of the decisions and actions taken by the business
Chapters
00:00
Introduction of Chris Weldon
03:04
Chris's Background and Current Venture
07:37
The Problem: Lack of Understanding of Numbers
13:08
The Importance of Knowing the Numbers
15:56
Key Metrics for Assessing a Business
22:21
The Owner's Understanding of Numbers
24:58
Metrics to Monitor Weekly
27:10
Metrics to Monitor Quarterly
32:20
Understanding Sales Trends and Cost Structures
36:46
Analyzing Financial Performance Quarterly
44:04
Deepening Understanding of the Balance Sheet Annually
46:08
The Numbers Reflect Business Decisions and Actions
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In this conversation, Mike shares practical tips and tools for negotiation. He emphasizes the importance of finding leverage and using it to create a win-win outcome. He discusses the power of anchoring, where starting with a higher price or set of terms can reposition the negotiation in your favor. He also suggests using the phrase 'Is there any flexibility on this?' to negotiate better terms. Lastly, he recommends using the question 'How am I supposed to do that?' to challenge unreasonable requests. These practical techniques can be applied in various negotiation scenarios.
Takeaways
- Negotiation is about finding leverage and creating a win-win outcome.
- Anchoring is a powerful technique where starting with a higher price or set of terms can reposition the negotiation in your favor.
- Asking 'Is there any flexibility on this?' can lead to better terms in a negotiation.
- Using the question 'How am I supposed to do that?' can challenge unreasonable requests and shift the negotiation in your favor.
Chapters
00:00
Introduction to Negotiation
02:33
Understanding Leverage
10:56
The Power of Anchoring
15:17
Flexibility
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In this conversation, Mike discusses the three different roles that entrepreneurs play in a small and mid-sized business: shareholder/investor, director, and employee. He emphasizes the importance of understanding and separating these roles to avoid overwhelm and maximize productivity. Scott provides a delegation framework, the 70% rule, and introduces the Eisenhower matrix as tools to prioritize tasks and focus on high-value activities. He also encourages entrepreneurs to determine the value of their time and delegate tasks that can be done at least 70% as well by someone else.
Takeaways
Entrepreneurs in small and mid-sized businesses play three different roles: shareholder/investor, director, and employee.
Understanding and separating these roles is crucial to avoid overwhelm and maximize productivity.
The 70% rule can help entrepreneurs determine which tasks to delegate by asking if someone else can do it at least 70% as well.
The Eisenhower matrix is a useful tool for prioritizing tasks based on urgency and importance.
Entrepreneurs should determine the value of their time and focus on high-value activities.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
08:08 Shareholder/Investor Role
14:15 Director Role
19:23 Determining the Value of Your Time
25:32 Delegating and Prioritizing Tasks
28:07 Conclusion
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In this episode, Mike discusses who should be on a leadership team. He emphasises the importance of a strong and disciplined meeting rhythm, including annual planning, quarterly planning, weekly leadership team meetings, and daily huddles.
He breaks down the primary functions of a business into operations, sales and marketing, and finance, and explains that the heads of these functions should be part of the leadership team. Mike also advises framing the invitation to join the leadership team as an experiment to allow for flexibility and evaluation.
Takeaways
A strong and disciplined meeting rhythm is crucial for a leadership team.
The heads of the primary functions of a business should be part of the leadership team.
Inviting team members to join the leadership team as an experiment allows for flexibility and evaluation.
Investing in developing leaders within the organization is essential for scaling and reducing reliance on the founder.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
02:05 Identifying the Primary Functions of the Business
04:03 Determining Who Should Be on the Leadership Team
05:48 Bringing Team Members into the Leadership Team
08:41 Inviting Team Members as an Experiment
09:39 Investing in Developing Leaders
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In this episode, Mike discusses the importance of creating a company scoreboard or scorecard to increase accountability, improve data quality, and drive results.
He emphasises the need for a clear artifact that defines what winning looks like and what needs to be done to achieve it. Mike explains the difference between leading indicators and lagging indicators and focuses on the former for the scorecard. He provides examples of leading indicators such as revenue, profit, LinkedIn posts, podcast episodes recorded, in-person meetings with leads, new referrals, cash runway, and employee and client satisfaction scores. Mike outlines the process of creating and using the scorecard, including assigning accountability, setting targets, and conducting weekly scorecard reviews.
Takeaways
Creating a company scoreboard or scorecard helps increase accountability and drive results.
The scorecard should focus on leading indicators, which are metrics that can be influenced and impact future results.
Examples of leading indicators include revenue, profit, LinkedIn posts, podcast episodes, in-person meetings, new referrals, cash runway, and employee and client satisfaction scores.
The scorecard should have a small set of metrics, ideally between 5 to 15, that are critical to the business.
The scorecard should be reviewed weekly in a leadership team meeting, with a focus on accountability and action plans to address any metrics that are off track.
Chapters
00:00 Creating a Company Scoreboard
06:23 Focusing on Leading Indicators
09:47 Examples of Leading Indicators
12:10 Keeping the Scorecard Simple
15:32 Reviewing the Scorecard Weekly
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In this episode, Mike discusses the importance of having a clear vision for a business and using a structured approach to make it usable. He draws inspiration from Jim Collins' work and emphasizes the need to start with vision before moving on to strategy and planning. Mike explains the three components of a vision: core values, purpose, and a big hairy audacious goal (BHAG). He highlights the significance of authenticity and relevance in defining these components. Mike also emphasizes the need to extract and communicate the vision to align the team and make informed decisions.
Takeaways
Having a clear vision is crucial for the success of a business.
A vision should consist of core values, purpose, and a big hairy audacious goal (BHAG).
Values should be action-oriented and accompanied by clear explanations of their meaning.
Purpose should be authentic and compelling, providing a reason for being.
A BHAG should be challenging and guide the long-term direction of the business.
It is important to extract and communicate the vision to align the team and make informed decisions.
Revisiting the vision periodically can help realign the business and address any deviations.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Importance of Vision
03:16 Vision, Strategy, and Planning
04:14 Components of a Vision: Core Values
05:10 Components of a Vision: Purpose
10:33 Components of a Vision: Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG)
18:09 Extracting and Communicating the Vision
20:04 Revisiting the Vision
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In this episode, Mike shares his personal journey of overcoming anxiety and discusses practical techniques that have helped him improve his mental health and productivity. He emphasizes the importance of sleep and shares his evening routine for better sleep quality. Mike also talks about his morning routine, which includes meditation, breathwork, exercise, and cold plunges. He explains the benefits of journaling and shares breathing techniques that can be used throughout the day to regulate stress. Finally, Mike discusses the importance of transitioning from work to home and the overall importance of self-care. In this conversation, Mike discusses the importance of self-care and personal biohacking habits for business success. He emphasizes the integration of personal well-being and business performance, highlighting the interconnectedness of these aspects. Mike believes that understanding business deeply and prioritizing self-care are critical for leaders to excel in their roles.
Takeaways
Prioritize sleep for better mental health and productivity.
Establish a morning routine that includes meditation, breathwork, exercise, and cold plunges.
Journaling can be a powerful tool for self-reflection and mental clarity.
Practice breathing techniques throughout the day to regulate stress.
Create a transition ritual to shift from work to home and prioritize self-care. Self-care is essential for business success as it improves overall well-being and performance.
Biohacking techniques can optimize physical and mental health, leading to increased productivity and focus.
Integrating personal well-being and business success is crucial for leaders to excel in their roles.
Understanding business deeply and prioritizing self-care are not separate but interconnected aspects.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Context
02:29 Morning Routine: Sleep and Wake-Up
07:08 Morning Routine: Meditation and Breathwork
11:22 Morning Routine: Exercise and Cold Plunge
13:49 Morning Routine: Journaling
20:40 Throughout the Day: Breathing Techniques
39:47 End of the Day: Transitioning from Work to Home
45:28 Conclusion and Importance of Self-Care
10:32 The Importance of Self-Care
20:15 Biohacking for Optimal Performance
30:50 Integrating Personal Well-being and Business Success
45:49 The Connection Between Self-Care and Business
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This episode focuses on creating an environment and experience that makes employees want to stay and brings out the best in them. It covers topics such as differentiating between leadership and management, creating predictable environments, intrinsic motivators, defining winning aspirations and goals, individual and company-wide meetings, and developing a value proposition for talent. The episode emphasizes the importance of intentionality, transparency, and building a strong culture.
Takeaways
- Leadership is about providing clarity, direction, inspiration, while management is about setting clear expectations and creating systems for accountability.
- Intrinsic motivators for employees include autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
- Creating a clear purpose and vision for the organization is crucial for attracting and retaining top talent.
- Regular one-on-one meetings and company-wide addresses promote transparency, accountability, and engagement.
- Building a strong culture requires intentional effort and a focus on creating an environment where employees can do their best work.
Chapters
00:00
Introduction and Differentiation between Leadership and Management
01:24
Creating Predictable Environments and Meeting Expectations
02:21
Intrinsic Motivators: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose
05:36
Common Mistakes in Creating Purpose
06:58
Defining Winning Aspirations and Long-Term Goals
08:14
Essential Intent and Annual Objectives
09:33
Quarterly Objectives and Weekly Leadership Team Meetings
12:27
Individual Goals and One-on-One Meetings
13:56
Competing for Talent and Developing a Value Proposition
14:56
Company-Wide Addresses and Transparency
28:00
Creating an Intentional Environment and Building Culture
29:25
CEO One-on-One Sessions
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In this episode, Mike discusses the importance of getting and keeping the best people in a business. He emphasises the need for businesses to have a deliberate and intentional process for hiring and building a strong team. Mike highlights the significance of creating an ideal organisational structure, designing job descriptions, and implementing a rigorous interview process. He also emphasises the importance of marketing to attract talent and aligning values with the hiring process. Additionally, Mike emphasises the need to set clear expectations for the first 90 days of a new hire's job.
Takeaways
- Building a strong team starts with a deliberate and intentional hiring process.
- Designing an ideal organizational structure and creating clear job descriptions are crucial for attracting and retaining the best people.
- Marketing to attract talent is as important as marketing to attract customers.
- Setting clear expectations for the first 90 days of a new hire's job is essential for their success and integration into the business.
Chapters
00:00
Keeping and Getting the Best People
02:19
Building Businesses that Thrive
04:41
Designing the Ideal Organizational Structure
06:38
Creating Job Descriptions and Interviewing Process
08:49
Internal Referral Schemes
10:13
Having a Clear Owner for the Recruitment Process
11:11
Marketing to Attract Talent
12:30
Building a Hiring Process
13:51
Fire Fast, Hire Slowly
15:43
Gut Check in the Hiring Process
20:22
Values in the Interview Process
25:08
Setting Expectations for the First 90 Days
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In this episode, I, delve into the topic of 'Practical Resilience' and its crucial role in business and leadership. I open up about my recent experiences with my new venture, SMB Mastery, and how a personal crisis tested my resilience. I highlight the significance of confronting brutal truths in our businesses, maintaining healthy habits, and utilizing tools such as journaling and meditation to bolster mental resilience. Drawing on insights from thought leaders like Eckhart Tolle and Andrew Huberman, I emphasize the integration of personal resilience into our professional lives. Join me as we explore building sustainable resilience, enhancing leadership skills, and forging resilient teams for long-term success in the business world.
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Building a business is hard.
Maintaining healthy relationships with those that you care about is hard.
Staying fit and healthy in your body, your mind and your emotions is hard.
This podcast is about finding and sharing tools, strategies and experiences that may help you to achieve and maintain moderate success in your life, whatever that means to you.
There is a ton of content created by the billionaires, the ultra successful athletes, and by people that are at a level that the vast majority of us will just never get to. And if you're anything like me, you're totally okay with that.
This is a place where we talk about how to build a great business, but not necessarily a massive one. A place to talk about how we build a life that is balanced and integrated, but not necessarily optimised to levels that are not realistic for most of us.
In short, it's a place where we explore how to be moderately successful.
The work will always remain yours, and for the most part, it's simple, but not easy.
I sincerely hope it's valuable to you.
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This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
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This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
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This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
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This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
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This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
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This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
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This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
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This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
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This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
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This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
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This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
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- Mike
This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
I hope you find some value...
Lastly, Please give us a rating - it really helps us to reach more folks like you:
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- Mike
This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
I hope you find some value...
Lastly, Please give us a rating - it really helps us to reach more folks like you:
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- Mike
This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
I hope you find some value...
Lastly, Please give us a rating - it really helps us to reach more folks like you:
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- Mike
This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
I hope you find some value...
Lastly, Please give us a rating - it really helps us to reach more folks like you:
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- Mike
This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
I hope you find some value...
Lastly, Please give us a rating - it really helps us to reach more folks like you:
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- Mike
This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
I hope you find some value...
Lastly, Please give us a rating - it really helps us to reach more folks like you:
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- Mike
This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
I hope you find some value...
- Mike
This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
I hope you find some value...
- Mike
This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
I hope you find some value.
- Mike
This is not the place where you'll hear about how to build a billion-dollar business, win an ironman event, or find spiritual enlightenment. What I can share is my experience around how to build, lead and exit a business of maybe a few million dollars, how to place in the top 10 in a mountain bike stage race or how to implement systems to continually work and improve on your mental and physical health.In short…I might be able to offer a little help on how to be moderately successful. To be really clear, nothing that I share is financial advice or advice of any kind for that matter but rather my own experience shared. It’s critical that you do your own research on anything that I share in this podcast and that you take responsibility for your own decisions.I want to challenge you to be more than just a passenger. If you hear anything in any of the episodes that resonate with you and that you want to implement in your own life, take action by teaching that thing to someone within the next 24 hours and then ask them to hold you accountable for doing the thing that you said you were going to do. Teaching is often the best way to learn and accountability is usually the thing between talk and meaningful, consistent action.
I hope you find some value...
- Mike
Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore great FinTech products, businesses and leaders.
I’m your host, Mike Scott, Co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona Digital is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.
In today's show, I’m joined by Jason Atkins from Cake and we’ll be exploring his journey and insights from building a great business that makes equity simple for startups everywhere.
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Today's episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.
Working with us to accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product squads that cover development, UI and UX, product ownership and architecture, and that have been building products together for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a 40 person studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to one of the principals. And, you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
As one of our clients said, “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe…because if you want to be the best, that's the sort of thing that you do”.
To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to our website to book a call directly.
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Jason Atkins is trained as an accountant and has got a strong background in finance across companies like Mastercard, the Awesome Group, Zupp property, and Enhanced Society.
Today his main focus is as the Co-Founder of Cake where he is leading a strong team to make equity easier to use. This is a topic that is typically complex and difficult to get right and these guys are really making a difference to founders to help them raise money the right way, give shares to their team and do it in a compliant and centralized way.
Jason is a pretty generous mentor, giving his time to River City Labs and more recently to Startmate.
Cake has got a growing team of 20, they are the market leader in Australia and they are embarking on a very aggressive growth path.
Jason is leading a business worth keeping an eye on and what's more, is he is just a really nice guy. Welcome, Jason, great to have you on the show.
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Thanks for listening to the show!
If you’d like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore great FinTech products, businesses and leaders.
I’m your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona Digital is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.
In today's show, I’m joined again by Ran Neuner from Crypto Banter and we are going to be talking about crypto and Web3 in the context of 2022.
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Today's episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.
Working with us to accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product squads that cover development, UI and UX, product ownership and architecture, and that have been building products together for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a 40 person studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to one of the principals. And, you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
As one of our clients said, “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe…because if you want to be the best, that's the sort of thing that you do”.
To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to our website to book a call directly.
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I’m joined again today by Ran Neuner, host of Crypto Banter and one of the biggest crypto YouTube channels. They have grown to just under 540k subscribers.
He is essentially becoming the Blomberg of crypto. One of the main differences with Ran, and the reason I follow his content, is that he was a massively successful entrepreneur before he even got into the crypto space. He built and sold The Creative Council which ended up being the largest deal of its time in Africa. Ran is also a CA and a very smart guy.
Today’s show is not going to be so much about a founder's journey, but more about what we might expect to see in the Web3 space for the year ahead and how it relates to Fintech.
We will try to keep the jargon to a minimum, but if you hear terms that you don't recognise, google them and you’ll likely go down a rabbit hole that will be, at a minimum pretty interesting.
Before I welcome Ran, I want to be clear that nothing on this show is financial advice. Neither myself nor Ran are financial advisors and it needs to be said that this space is very very risky.
Welcome back, Ran. Thanks for making the time.
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Thanks for listening to the show!
If you’d like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore great FinTech products, businesses and leaders.
I’m your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona Digital is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.
In today's show, I’m joined by Matt Baxby, CEO of Revolut Australia and we’ll be talking about his journey and insights in the Fintech space.
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Today's episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.
Working with us to accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product squads that cover development, UI and UX, product ownership and architecture, and that have been building products together for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a 40 person studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to one of the principals. And, you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
As one of our clients said, “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe…because if you want to be the best, that's the sort of thing that you do”.
To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to our website to book a call directly.
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My guest today is Matt Baxby who has got a massive amount of experience in the world of finance.
Matt started his career as a solicitor in Australia. After two years he moved to London to take up a role with Virgin as an Investment Manager after which he became the Investment Director.
His next role was Commercial and Strategy Director at Virgin Money which later developed into Managing Director at Virgin Money Australia.
In 2012 Matt moved over to the Bank of Queensland as their CFO. Today, Matt is the CEO of Revolut Australia.
It's unlikely that Revolut needs much of an introduction. In case you are not familiar, Revolut is one of the most successful Fintechs on the planet, building a global financial super app. They have over 15 million customers and process more than 100 million transactions per month. They aim to help their customers improve their financial health, give them more control, and connect them seamlessly across the world.
As if Matt is not doing enough, he also has four kids. Matt and I share a passion for cycling, and I have no doubt that we will have a great conversation.
Welcome to the show, Matt.
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Thanks for listening to the show!
If you’d like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore great FinTech products, businesses and leaders.
I am your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona Digital is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.
In today's show, I am joined by Stephen Young from NFTfi and we will be talking about his journey building a leading NFT lending platform.
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Today's episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.
Working with us to accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product squads that cover development, UI and UX, product ownership and architecture, and that have been building products together for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a 40 person studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to one of the principals. And, you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
As one of our clients said, “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe…because if you want to be the best, that is the sort of thing that you do”.
To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to our website to book a call directly.
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Today I am joined by Stephen Young who is building something very interesting, and in a space that is now gaining a lot of attention - the NFT space.
Stephen spent a lot of his earlier career with Allan Gray, a massive traditional financial services company in South Africa, where he held multiple roles across technology and digital marketing.
He spent some time with 22seven which was one of the first companies that I saw use banking feeds to help people manage their finances better and this was way before open banking.
He helped Coindirect in their earlier days as Chief Product Officer and it is safe to say that he has been around Web3 for a decent amount of time now which has led him to his current focus as the founder and CEO of NFTfi.
NFTfi is a simple marketplace for NFT collateralized loans which means that they allow you to put up your NFT assets as collateral for a loan or to offer loans to other people on their NFTs.
Welcome Stephen, it is great to have you on the show.
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Thanks for listening to the show!
If you would like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you are welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.
I will be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore great FinTech products, businesses and leaders.
I’m your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona Digital is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.
In today's show, I’m joined by Jay Ganatra from Infinity Ventures and we’ll be talking about early-stage Fintech venture investing.
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Today's episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.
Working with us to accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product squads that cover development, UI and UX, product ownership and architecture, and that have been building products together for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a 40 person studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to one of the principals.
And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
As one of our clients said, “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe…because if you want to be the best, that's the sort of thing that you do”.
To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to our website to book a call directly.
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Jay Ganatra is an interesting type of venture investor. After completing his studies at Duke University Jay went straight into investment banking as an analyst with Cogent Partners.
After a few more roles in the investment space, he joined Yelp where he ended up as a Senior Director of Business Operations and Strategy at Yelp Eat24 In 2020 Jay joined Paypal Ventures as Senior Director and Partner.
All of this has led up to his current focus as the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Infinity Ventures which is an early-stage venture firm focused on investing in Fintech and commerce enablement companies across the globe.
Welcome Jay it's great to have you on the show.
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Thanks for listening to the show!
If you’d like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore great FinTech products, businesses and leaders.
I’m your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona Digital is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.
In today's show I’m joined by Caleb Avery from Tilled. We’ll be talking about his Fintech journey which has actually termed a new category in Fintech - PayFac as a service. His journey is an awesome one and this episode should be great.
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Today's episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.
Working with us to accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product squads that cover development, UI and UX, product ownership and architecture, and we have been building products together for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a 40 person studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to one of the principals.
And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
As one of our clients said, “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe…because if you want to be the best, that's the sort of thing that you do”.
To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to our website to book a call directly.
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From his early days as Grand Treasurer of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity through multiple roles in the finance, payments and investment worlds for companies like UPC Merchant Processing, Phood, PayBright and UPC Capital Ventures, Caleb has built up a considerable capability and experience in the financial world which has led him to his main focus today - Founder and CEO of Tilled.
Tilled empowers internet companies to start generating revenue from accepting credit card payments. And, has created a new category in Fintech which they call PayFac as a service.
Caleb has got great energy and this business is taking on some pretty large players.
Welcome Caleb, great to have you on the show.
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Thanks for listening to the show!
If you’d like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey where we explore great FinTech products, businesses, and leaders.
I’m your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona Digital is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.
In today's show, I’m joined by David Wolfenden. We’ll be talking about how, at 21 years old, he is already on his third startup as well as the gamification of money.
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David Wolfenden is a very impressive 21-year-old dude. He has already amassed some significant life and business experience that has led him to his current focus as the Founder and CEO of Eden.
Eden is a seed-stage Fintech startup based in the US whose mission is to leverage modern-day society's consumer mindset for its own financial good. They are working on building a visual savings account where one's balance is represented by a dynamic digital world rather than just numbers.
I really enjoyed my encounter with David and while he is at a much earlier stage than most of the guests that come on the show, I think that he is someone worth keeping an eye on…
Welcome David, thanks for making the time.
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Today's episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.
Working with us to accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product squads that cover development, UI and UX, product ownership and architecture, and that have been building products together for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a 40 person studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to one of the principals.
And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
As one of our clients said, “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe…because if you want to be the best, that's the sort of thing that you do”.
To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to www.nona.digital to book a call directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show!
If you'd like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
Connect with David or Eden.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey where we explore great FinTech products, businesses, and leaders.
I’m your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona Digital is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.
In today's show, I’m joined by Nirit Rubenstein from Dovly and we’ll be discussing her journey building a credit improvement platform.
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Nirit Rubenstein's career has been diverse and vast but I'll highlight some things that stood out for me.
Way back in 1995 she was an Airforce Instructor in Israel. She spent 5 years with Salesforce across financial analyst and marketing strategy roles. As CEO of Credly between 2014 and 2018, she led the second-largest credit repair company in the US following its acquisition by Tregaron Capital.
Nirit serves on the advisory board of the Arizona Isreal Technology Alliance, she received a BA in business and economics and an MBA, graduating Cum Laude.
All of this led to her current focus which is as the CEO and co-founder of Dovly. Dovly is a fully automated credit improvement platform based on sophisticated algorithms that are proven to impact credit scores. They are around 20 people today and growing, they have raised just under $6m in seed funding to date.
Welcome Nirit, good to have you on the show.
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Today's episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.
Working with us to accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product squads that cover development, UI and UX, product ownership and architecture, and that have been building products together for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a 40 person studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to one of the principals.
And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
As one of our clients said, “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe…because if you want to be the best, that's the sort of thing that you do”.
To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to www.nona.digital to book a call directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show!
If you'd like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey where we explore FinTech products, businesses, and leaders.
I’m your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona Digital is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.
In today's show, I’m joined by Michael Young from Photon Commerce and we will be talking about his journey building an AI-powered platform for Fintechs, invoices, and payments.
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Michael's early career was as an engineer at IBM after which he took a role as a researcher at Wharton where he worked on a bunch of things that I can barely even pronounce like being the co-inventor of the optical memristor.
After that, he took a role as VP of Strategy and Marketing for a tech and education company. At around the same time, he co-founded Innova Dynamics which was eventually acquired by TPK in 2015. As this was going, he co-founded another business, IonArmour where he led the product, tech, and business development.
In 2016 he co-founded an eye care company, Smart Focus which was a spin-out of Stanford and was featured in publications like the Economist and Wired.
Michael is an advisor to CareNX which is a life-saving technology that has been recognized by Queen Elizabeth II and the Indian Prime Minister.
In 2019 he was selected as one of the 100 entrepreneurs from around the world to join the prestigious One Deck program in San Francisco where he remains a Fellow today.
All of this led him to his current focus which is the sole founder and CEO of Photon Commerce. Photon is an AI platform for fintechs that reduces payment costs by up to 33% while accelerating customer acquisition.
It is used by over 120 fintechs and has processed over $11bn to date. Photon has an engineering heavy team of 25 and is growing fast. They have raised multiple rounds of undisclosed amounts and they already have significant recurring revenues.
Michael is razor-sharp, incredibly focused, and seems to know what it takes to build a successful business - I’m looking forward to this discussion.
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Today’s episode sponsor is Nona Digital.
Working with us to create or accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product teams across design and engineering that have been building products together for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals.
And, you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
As one of our clients said, “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe. Because if you want to be the best, that's the sort of thing that you do”.
To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to www.nona.digital.
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I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey where we explore FinTech products, businesses and leaders.
I’m your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.
In today’s show I am joined by Damir Ćuća, CEO and Founder of Basiq. We're talking about open banking and his journey of moving from a services business to building a leading Fintech product business.
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Damir holds two masters degrees, one in design computing and the other in IT management.
He spent 12 years running and building a services business, where he picked up a lot of experience, insight and capability around what it takes to build great products. His current focus is as the Founder and CEO of Basiq.
Basiq is an Australian open banking platform enabling developers to build innovative financial solutions. They provide secure access to customer-consented financial data and powerful APIs that uncover valuable insights.
Basiq has got a team of over 50 people and they’re growing fast. They provide a bridge between over 100 banks and 150 FinTechs, and they have helped over 1.5million Australians to securely share their financial data on their platform.
They have raised multiple rounds of funding from the likes of Salesforce, Plaid and NAB ventures. Just this week announced another round with Visa for an undisclosed amount.
On top of all of this, Damir has got 6 kids under 10 years!!!
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Today’s episode sponsor is Nona Digital.
Working with us to create or accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product teams across design and engineering that have been building products together for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals.
And, you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
As one of our clients said “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe. Because if you want to be the best, that's the sort of thing that you do”.
To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to www.nona.digital.
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Thanks for listening to the show!
If you'd like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey where we explore FinTech products, businesses and leaders.
I’m your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.
Today I am joined by Michael Spencer, CEO and Co-Founder of SmartMoney International. We’ll be talking about the opportunity that exists in Fintech in rural Africa.
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Michael Spencer has got a good story to tell. His career has seen him move from VP of The Bank of New York, Director at Credit Suisse First Boston, Director at Goldman Sachs to the CTO of ASMALLWORLD. This experience led Michael to his focus today which is as the CEO and Co-Founder of SmartMoney International.
SmartMoney is an Africa based Fintech that is harnessing the explosive growth of mobile phone usage across Africa. The approach is unique in that it is focussing on rural market entry to gain network effect advantages in the highly contested urban markets.
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Today’s episode sponsor is Nona Digital.
Working with us to create or accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product teams across design and engineering that have been building products together for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals.
And, you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
As one of our clients said “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe. Because if you want to be the best, that's the sort of thing that you do”.
To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to www.nona.digital.
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Thanks for listening to the show!
If you'd like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore great FinTech products, businesses, and leaders.
I’m your host Mike Scott and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital, an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.
In today's show, I’m joined by Duncan Currie, country manager for the Australian (AUS) and New Zealand (NZ) regions for Marqeta and we’ll be talking about his journey in the card-issuing space both on the Marqeta side and on the customer side.
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Today my guest is Duncan Currie who has been working in Financial service and Fintech for a very long time.
Duncan has had a very deep career in this space, working at senior levels for companies like Visa, ANZ Bank, the NAB, and Crypto.com to name a few.
A massive depth of knowledge in the card space has led Duncan to his current role as Country Manager of Marqeta for the AUS and NZ regions.
For those you listening that might not know Marqeta, they are a massively successful Fintech company that focuses on the modern card issuing platforms and infrastructure to help companies build and manage payment programs.
Duncan has also got some entrepreneurial DNA in him as he has founded and run a good few businesses too, some unrelated to Fintech.
Duncan is seriously experienced in financial services and Fintech and more importantly, a really nice guy.
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Today’s episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.
Working with us to create or accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product teams across design and engineering that have been building products together for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
As one of our clients said, “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe. Because if you want to be the best, that's the sort of thing that you do”.
To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to www.nona.digital to book a call directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show. I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore great FinTech products, great FinTech businesses and great Fintech leaders.
I’m your host Mike Scott and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital, an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.
In today's show I’m joined by NSW Senator Andrew Bragg and we are going to talk about the recent report that he released which offers 12 recommendations to increase Australia's competitiveness when it comes to crypto and digital assets.
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Today’s episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.
Working with us to accelerate your FinTech or Blockchain product you get access to deeply skilled and experienced designers and developers that have been building products for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
To get in touch with one of our principals head over to www.nona.digital to book a consultation directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show. If you’d like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website - www.nona.digital
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore FinTech and the founders that power it.
I’m your host Mike Scott and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital, an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.
In today's show I’m joined by Trent Bigelow, co-founder and CEO of Abound. We’ll be talking about his journey building a startup that aims to make independent workers more financially secure.
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Trent is an impressive founder that is set on solving a real problem and one that he himself experienced.
He showed promise early on when he was an intern at HP. He proposed, organized, and led the HP Student Innovation Center - while he was still in high school.
He then went on to found his first startup which was the world's first online multi-account email client… although they started out thinking that they would be competing with Facebook and MySpace to build a better social network.
Trent then became the Business Development Director at Chiral Software. He also worked as a freelance UX researcher and then did some time as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Venrock.
This all led up to his current focus which is as the co-founder and CEO of Abound. Since 2017, Trent has led the team to help build the world that independent workers want to work in. They are doing this through a set of API’s that make it easy to embed benefits for independent workers in an easy and compliant way.
The Abound team is around 20 strong and growing. They have raised just under $7m in seed rounds, and are definitely a company to watch.
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Today’s episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.
Working with us to accelerate your FinTech or Blockchain product you get access to deeply skilled and experienced designers and developers that have been building products for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
To get in touch with one of our principals head over to www.nona.digital to book a consultation directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show. If you’d like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website - www.nona.digital
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore FinTech and the founders that power it. The Fintech Founder Journey looks at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be more successful in all that you do.
I’m your host Mike Scott and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital, an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain startups.
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In today's show I will be alone again sharing anecdotes and my experience with the difference between remote work and remote leadership.
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Today’s episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.
Working with us to accelerate your FinTech or Blockchain product you get access to deeply skilled and experienced designers and developers that have been building products for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
To get in touch with one of our principals head over to www.nona.digital to book a consultation directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show. If you’d like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website - www.nona.digital.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore FinTech and the founders that power it. I’m your host Mike Scott and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital, an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain startups.
The Fintech Founder Journey looks at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be more successful in all that you do.
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In today's show I'm joined by Elliott Donazzan, co-founder at Payble.
Elliott is building an interesting FinTech in the payments space. We’ll be talking about the billions of dollars that late payments are costing Australian businesses every year and his journey so far in trying to solve this.
Elliott started his career at PWC and has gone on to found two startups one in the travel space and the other in the media space.
He then went on to become Strategy Director for the Zoo Group and then moved on to an Investment Manager position at Glenburn Private Capital.
After that Elliott joined Identitii Ltd, an ASX listed company, where he became the Director of Innovation and that was his last role before co-founding Payble which is his full focus today.
Payble is a FinTech that offers a better way to get paid, improve cash flow collection, lower transaction costs and make failed or late payments a thing of the past.
Payable raised $1m earlier this year from CBA’s x15 ventures which is a great vote of confidence for the young startup.
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Today’s episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.
Working with us to accelerate your FinTech or Blockchain product you get access to deeply skilled and experienced designers and developers that have been building products for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
To get in touch with one of our principals head over to www.nona.digital to book a consultation directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show. If you’d like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website - www.nona.digital
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, where we explore FinTech and the founders that power it. The podcast looks at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be more successful in all that you do.
I’m your host, Mike Scott, and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona Digital is an expert firm accelerating product development for FinTech & Blockchain startups.
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In today's show I'm joined by Tauriq Keraan, CEO of TymeBank. We’ll be discussing his own journey (which is an inspirational one) as well as learning more about how TymeBank has seen such massive success and where it’s headed under his leadership.
To give you some context about TymeBank's success - TymeBank has acquired nearly 3 million customers in just over 2 years, and is adding between 3000 and 5000 customers every day.
Tauriq Keraan (TK) is a very impressive human. After completing school TK went on to complete a BSC in Chemistry and an MSC in Materials Engineering.
He worked as the Technology Transfer Manager at the Tshwane University of Technology in the early days of his career. He then went on to hold various roles across various industries including a role as the Executive Lead of Strategy & Innovation at Deloitte.
In 2013 TK joined TymeBank and has held a range of leadership roles. In 2019 he was appointed as the CEO and that remains his focus today.
Tauriq is a rare leader and someone that I find deeply inspirational and humble. I actually met Tauriq through him reaching out to me on LinkedIn off the back of a post that I shared. We got on a call and I was blown away by his humility, openness to learning from anyone and general approach to life and business.
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Today’s episode is sponsored by Nona Digital.
Working with us to accelerate your FinTech or Blockchain product you get access to deeply skilled and experienced designers and developers that have been building products for a very long time.
You get the benefit of a studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
To get in touch with one of our principals head over to www.nona.digital to book a consultation directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show. If you’d like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website - www.nona.digital
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, the podcast that explores FinTech and the founders that power it. I’m your host Mike Scott, and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
In this podcast we look at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be more successful in all that you do.
In today's show I'm joined by Dan Silver, Co-Founder & COO of Stake. Stake is a platform that lets you trade the US stock market from outside of the US with no brokerage fees. We’ll be discussing his journey and insights into building and scaling a high growth FinTech platform in the investment space.
Stake's core markets are AUS and NZ, but they are now also in the UK and Brazil and growing fast. They raised $40m in May of this year and the team is about 80 people and growing. They have got 350 000 users on the platform and have close to a billion dollars under management. This is a company worth watching for sure and I'm excited to learn more...
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nona Digital.
We are an expert firm that consults on, designs and develops FinTech software and we do it with a level of care and excellence that is rare and difficult to match.
Working with us you get access to a deeply skilled and experienced FinTech design and development team with a particularly deep experience level in blockchain.
You get the benefit of a team that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
To get in touch with one of our principals to see how we can help your FinTech project to accelerate and succeed, head over to www.nona.digital to book a consultation directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show. I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, the podcast that explores FinTech and the founders that power it. I’m your host Mike Scott, and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
In this podcast we look at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be more successful in all that you do.
In today's show I'm joined by Dion Appel, CEO of OpenPay and we’ll be talking about the Buy Now Pay Later craze as well as Dion's journey from agency life to becoming the CEO of OpenPay.
Dion Appel who is an impressive entrepreneur and operator. His career started in the agency world where he has co-founded and exited multiple businesses successfully.
In 2015 he became the managing director of the Melbourne office DDB, a full service advertising agency. In 2018, he joined OpenPay as Chief Revenue Officer and in July of this year he was appointed as CEO of Australia & New Zealand which is his current focus.
My initial impression of Dion was that he is a gun operator and also just a really open and nice guy.
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nona Digital.
We are an expert firm that consults on, designs and develops FinTech software and we do it with a level of care and excellence that is rare and difficult to match.
Working with us you get access to a deeply skilled and experienced FinTech design and development team with a particularly deep experience level in blockchain.
You get the benefit of a team that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
To get in touch with one of our principals to see how we can help your FinTech project to accelerate and succeed, head over to www.nona.digital to book a consultation directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show. I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, the podcast that explores FinTech and the founders that power it. I’m your host Mike Scott, and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
In this podcast we look at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be more successful in all that you do.
Today my guest is Andries Smit from Upside. Andries is a seasoned entrepreneurial leader that has worked across startups and large corporations in many roles and who brings with him a wealth of experience.
His current focus is as the founder and CEO of Upside, an early stage startup offering people cash back in exchange for their data and offering businesses valuable insights via reports through their APIs.
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nona Digital.
We are an expert firm that consults on, designs and develops FinTech software and we do it with a level of care and excellence that is rare and difficult to match.
Working with us you get access to a deeply skilled and experienced FinTech design and development team with a particularly deep experience level in blockchain.
You get the benefit of a team that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
To get in touch with one of our principals to see how we can help your FinTech project to accelerate and succeed, head over to www.nona.digital to book a consultation directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show. I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, the podcast that explores FinTech and the founders that power it. I’m your host Mike Scott, and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
In this podcast we look at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be more successful in all that you do.
In today's show I'm joined by Matteo Rizzi who has been deeply involved in FinTech for over 20 years as an investor, founder, innovator, author and many other things and we’ll be covering a broad range of topics about where Fintech is and where it is headed.
In his more than 20 years in the space he spent 13 years at SWIFT where, in 2008 he co-founded Innotribe. The innovation arm of SWIFT.
In 2013 Matteo become a partner at SBT Venture Capital which was one of the first dedicated FinTech funds to emerge.
In 2014 He co-founded FinTech Stage, a global community platform holding events and conferences on FinTech.
Today Matteo is a venture partner at Bamboo Capital Partners who focus mainly on impact investments in post seed ventures in the African market.
He has been nominated as one of the 40 most influential FinTech execs in Europe and is also the author of the ‘FinTech Revolution’.
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nona Digital.
We are an expert firm that consults on, designs and develops FinTech software and we do it with a level of care and excellence that is rare and difficult to match.
Working with us you get access to a deeply skilled and experienced FinTech design and development team with a particularly deep experience level in blockchain.
You get the benefit of a team that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
To get in touch with one of our principals to see how we can help your FinTech project to accelerate and succeed, head over to www.nona.digital to book a consultation directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show. I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, the podcast that explores FinTech and the founders that power it. I’m your host Mike Scott, and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
In this podcast we look at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be more successful in all that you do.
In today's show, Nona’s CTO, Dave O’Reilly joins me again and this time we’ll be talking about why it is so difficult to estimate costs and timelines for software development projects.
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nona Digital.
We are an expert firm that consults on, designs and develops FinTech software and we do it with a level of care and excellence that is rare and difficult to match.
Working with us you get access to a deeply skilled and experienced FinTech design and development team with a particularly deep experience level in blockchain.
You get the benefit of a team that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
To get in touch with one of our principals to see how we can help your FinTech project to accelerate and succeed, head over to www.nona.digital to book a consultation directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show. I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, the podcast that explores FinTech and the founders that power it. I’m your host Mike Scott, and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
In this podcast we look at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be more successful in all that you do.
In today's show we are joined by Nick Glynn from Quickapay and we’ll be talking about pivots and building FinTech products.
Nick Glynn has a strong product engineering background. Having worked in senior positions across companies like Freelancer.com, Campaign Monitor and Spaceship, he has gained invaluable experience of what it really means to build and ship products.
Nick has also contributed meaningfully to the open source community, and is an accomplished speaker and technical trainer. Today Nick’s focus is as the Co-Founder of Quickapay where he describes his portfolio as Strategy, Digital, Tech and Product. Quickapay is a B2B platform that gives one's customers more ways to pay.
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nona Digital.
We are an expert firm that consults on, designs and develops FinTech software and we do it with a level of care and excellence that is rare and difficult to match.
Working with us you get access to a deeply skilled and experienced FinTech design and development team with a particularly deep experience level in blockchain.
You get the benefit of a team that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
To get in touch with one of our principals to see how we can help your FinTech project to accelerate and succeed, head over to www.nona.digital to book a consultation directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show. I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, the podcast that explores FinTech and the founders that power it. I’m your host Mike Scott, and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
In this podcast we look at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be more successful in all that you do.
In today's show, Nona’s Co-Founder and COO, Ed O’Reilly joins me again and this time we’ll be talking about the team that you actually need to build a FinTech product.
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nona Digital.
We are an expert firm that consults on, designs and develops FinTech software and we do it with a level of care and excellence that is rare and difficult to match.
Working with us you get access to a deeply skilled and experienced FinTech design and development team with a particularly deep experience level in blockchain.
You get the benefit of a team that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
To get in touch with one of our principals to see how we can help your FinTech project to accelerate and succeed, head over to www.nona.digital to book a consultation directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show. I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, the podcast that explores FinTech and the founders that power it.
In this podcast we look at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be more successful in all that you do.
In today's show I'm joined by Naby Miriyam, Founder and CEO of Coverhero and we’ll be talking about the massive opportunity that exists in insurtech innovation and how Coverhero is disrupting the space.
Naby Miriyam who is one impressive woman. If I were to read out her full bio we would be here for a while so here are some highlights.
With an early career in the hospitality industry, Naby built up and studied through various degrees, has a strong understanding of what motivates choice in people and actually started a PhD along these same lines.
Naby has been a co-founder of multiple ventures, a lecturer in various capacities and is an acclaimed keynote speaker and thought leader.
As a G20 delegate she represented Australia in Berlin in 2017 and she has been deeply involved in the startup community both as a participant and creator of multiple programs across the US and AUS.
Today Naby’s focus is as the Founder and CEO of Coverhero whose vision is to transform and build the kind of insurance that is relevant for our generation and that is simple to understand.
Naby is also a finalist for Female FinTech Leader of the Year.
In my initial conversation with Naby, I was impressed at her passion, focus and energy. She is razor sharp and also just a really nice human.
Welcome to the podcast, Naby!
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nona Digital.
We are an expert firm that consults on, designs and develops FinTech software and we do it with a level of care and excellence that is rare and difficult to match.
Working with us you get access to a deeply skilled and experienced FinTech design and development team with a particularly deep experience level in blockchain.
You get the benefit of a team that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals.
And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
To get in touch with one of our principals to see how we can help your FinTech project to accelerate and succeed, head over to www.nona.digital to book a consultation directly.
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Thanks for listening to the show. I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.
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Connect with Mike
Follow Nona Digital: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube
Welcome to the ‘How to be Moderately Successful’ podcast. I’m your host Mike Scott, and also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
In this podcast we explore FinTech and the founders that power it. We look at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be more successful.
Before I even begin I need to stipulate that nothing in this podcast constitutes financial advice and any investment decisions that you might make are your own and you should do your own research.
A quick note: we are going to be rebranding the show soon to ‘The FinTech Founder Journey’ so just a heads up on that when you see your feed changing.
Today I’m joined by Ran Neuner or as his 263k twitter followers and 326k YouTube subscribers know him, CryptomanRan. We’ll be discussing his journey from building and selling the largest sales and marketing agency in South Africa to becoming a global crypto influencer.
Ran is a seriously impressive operator. He co-founded and built The Creative Counsel Group which was the largest sales and marketing agency in South Africa. The group was acquired by the Publicis Groupe in 2015, a deal that was at the time the largest acquisition transaction in Africa.
In 2017 he launched the Crypto Trader which was the world's first televised cryptocurrency show featured on CNBC and now runs the YouTube channel Crypto Banter which is absolutely blowing up.
He has been considered one of the 10 most influential people in blockchain and for good reason. In my mind Ran is one of the people that is doing real work to legitimise the space which is so necessary.
Ran holds a degree in Finance as well as a CFA qualification, is razor sharp and brings an energy that is seemingly limitless.
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This Podcast is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
We are an expert firm that consults on, designs and develops software for FinTech companies around the world.
Working with us you get access to a deeply skilled and experienced FinTech design and development team with a particularly deep experience level in blockchain.
You get the benefit of a team that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals.
And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
To get in touch with one of our principals to see how we can help your FinTech project to accelerate and succeed, head over to https://nona.digital/# to book a consultation directly.
Thanks for listening to the show. I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore 'The FinTech Founder Journey'.
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Welcome to the ‘How to be Moderately Successful’ podcast. I’m your host Mike Scott, Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
A quick note to share that we are soon going to be rebranding the podcast to 'The FinTech Founder Journey' so keep an eye out for that.
Today's show is something a little different, I'll be alone and diving deep into meeting rhythms and how they can improve just about everything in your business if they are done right.
From daily huddles all the way through to setting your multi-year long-range targets, I get into what we do, why we do it, and what we have learned and I share it all in this episode.
In this podcast we explore FinTech and the founders that power it. We look at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be as effective as possible.
Thanks for listening to the show and if you’d like to discuss your FinTech project with a team of experts in design and development you’re welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website which is Nona.digital.
If you are getting value from the podcast please show your support by giving us a rating and a review. We set up a link to make it really easy. Go to https://ratethispodcast.com/howtobemoderatelysuccessful. Head over there now, it’ll only take a minute.
This Podcast is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
We are an expert firm that consults on, designs and develops FinTech software and we do it with a level of care and excellence that is rare and difficult to match.
Working with us you get access to a deeply skilled and experienced FinTech design and development team with a particularly deep experience level in blockchain.
You get the benefit of a team that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals.
And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
Get in touch to book a call with one of our principals to see how we can help your FinTech project to accelerate and succeed.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore FinTech and the founders that power it.
FOLLOW NONA DIGITAL: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube
Welcome to the ‘How to be Moderately Successful’ podcast. I’m your host Mike Scott, Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
In this podcast we explore FinTech and the founders that power it. We look at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be as effective as possible.
I’m joined today by Nitin Gaur who is an early adopter, change maker and thought leader in the Blockchain space and who brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience starting right at the beginning of the crypto movement.
Nitin has been with IBM for 22 years and has founded and held a number of senior titles therein most of which have been related to Blockchain. Currently he is the Director of Financial Sciences and digital assets.
Previously Nitin founded the IBM Blockchain labs and led the effort in establishing the Blockchain practice for enterprise.
Nitin is also an advisory board member to Stanford University's future digital currency initiative.
Nitin is widely published, mostly on Blockchain related topics and holds over 100 patents.
Thanks for listening to the show and if you’d like to discuss your FinTech project with a team of experts in design and development you’re welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website which is Nona.digital.
If you are getting value from the podcast please show your support by giving us a rating and a review. We set up a link to make it really easy. Go to https://ratethispodcast.com/howtobemoderatelysuccessful. Head over there now, it’ll only take a minute.
This Podcast is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
We are an expert firm that consults on, designs and develops FinTech software and we do it with a level of care and excellence that is rare and difficult to match.
Working with us you get access to a deeply skilled and experienced FinTech design and development team with a particularly deep experience level in blockchain.
You get the benefit of a team that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals.
And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.
Get in touch to book a call with one of our principals to see how we can help your FinTech project to accelerate and succeed.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore FinTech and the founders that power it.
FOLLOW NONA DIGITAL: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube
Welcome to the ‘How to be moderately successful’ podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott, Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
In this show we explore FinTech. We look at how to build better products, better businesses and how to work on yourself to be as effective as possible in your life.
Today I’m joined by Jeff Wu, co-founder and CTO of Notional Finance, a new decentralized lending protocol. We will be talking about Defi and his journey to where he is today.
Jeff Wu has a BA in mathematics and studied at Stanford.
He’s worked as a software engineer for many years including 6 years at Atlassian where his last role was Engineering manager of the analytics and integration team
He then went on to SPlunk as a senior product manager working on blockchain focused products which led him to his current project which is the co-founder and CTO of Notional Finance.
Notional is a decentralized protocol for fixed rate lending built on Ethereum. They recently closed their series A round of $10m which included investment from Panterra Capital which is one of the leading blockchain focused VC firms.
Thanks for listening to the ‘How to be Moderately Successful’ podcast. This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products, and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a FinTech business is difficult and building the software that enables that business, that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's hyper-competitive environment, getting your software built right really matters, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next deal, and making the impact that you need to make. This is where Nona can help.
With an excellent track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.
We’re small enough so that you are always close to the principals but big enough to be able to deliver at the highest standards consistently without KPD’s. We have deep expertise in FinTech, and particularly in Blockchain application development.
So, if you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you. Head over to our website to book a call directly with one of the principals.
We are actively hiring senior developers and technical leads and are offering a very decent reward for any referrals. If you know any senior developers that might be a good fit for Nona, please get in touch and there might be a meaningful reward in it for you.
We get a lot of messages to thank us and our guests for the content that we put out which I can only assume means that you are getting value from the podcast. If you’d like to support us then please do give us a rating and review.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to help you build better businesses, better fintech products, and a better you.
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Welcome to the ‘How to be Moderately Successful’ podcast. I’m your host Mike Scott, Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
Today I’m joined by Jeff Yew, ex CEO of Binance Australia and we’ll be talking about digital asset investment.
Jeff Yew is best known for his work as Binance Australia CEO where he launched and led the team to become Australia's largest and most liquid digital asset exchange in just 3 months! In less than a year Binance Australia amassed over 250k verified users with trade volumes of over $3bn.
Jeff has now moved on and has recently founded Monochrome Asset Management where he leads a team with over 70 years of combined experience in traditional markets and funds management and digital assets trading.
The Monochrome BitCoin Fund is aimed at investors seeking a familiar investment vehicle that tracks the price of Bitcoin.
Jeff is a wealth of knowledge in the crypto space and I have no doubt that today's discussion will be super interesting and useful.
Thanks for listening to the ‘How to be Moderately Successful’ podcast. This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products, and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a FinTech business is difficult and building the software that enables that business, that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's hyper-competitive environment, getting your software built right really matters, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next deal, and making the impact that you need to make. This is where Nona can help.
With an excellent track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.
We’re small enough so that you are always close to the principals but big enough to be able to deliver at the highest standards consistently without KPD’s. We have deep expertise in FinTech, and particularly in Blockchain application development.
So, if you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you. Head over to our website to book a call directly with one of the principals.
We are actively hiring senior developers and technical leads and are offering a very decent reward for any referrals. If you know any senior developers that might be a good fit for Nona, please get in touch and there might be a meaningful reward in it for you.
We get a lot of messages to thank us and our guests for the content that we put out which I can only assume means that you are getting value from the podcast. If you’d like to support us then please do give us a rating and review.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to help you build better businesses, better fintech products, and a better you.
Welcome to the ‘How to be Moderately Successful’ podcast. I’m your host Mike Scott, Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
Today my guest is Sean Sanders from Revix.
Sean’s passion for Finance began with a degree in Finance and Economics and he then went on to do his CFA qualification.
Sean who is not even 30 years old yet started his career with a few internships, one of which was with Merrill Lynch. He then founded his first of many businesses in 2012.
Sean went through a number of finance focused positions ranging from equity trading to portfolio management and then eventually to VC analyst with Knife Capital who I happen to know very well. It was at Knife Capital that Sean had his aha moment that led him to co-founding Revix in 2018 where he is now the CEO.
Revix is a platform that provides hassle-free, diversified cryptocurrency investing.
Sean has led Revix to a team of 25, MRR of around $140k with the last few months seeing 50% month on month growth. They have raised $4.1m from a range of investors and they’re sure to be a FinTech company to keep an eye on.
Sean is super smart and in my conversations leading up to this I was impressed by his passion and commitment to FinTech and I'm sure we’ll get great value from today's conversation.
Thanks for listening to the ‘How to be Moderately Successful’ podcast. This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products, and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a FinTech business is difficult and building the software that enables that business, that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's hyper-competitive environment, getting your software built right really matters, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next deal, and making the impact that you need to make. This is where Nona can help.
With an excellent track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.
We’re small enough so that you are always close to the principals but big enough to be able to deliver at the highest standards consistently without KPD’s. We have deep expertise in FinTech, and particularly in Blockchain application development.
So, if you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you. Head over to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals.
We are actively hiring senior developers and technical leads and are offering a very decent reward for any referrals. If you know any senior developers that might be a good fit for Nona, please get in touch and there might be a meaningful reward in it for you.
We get a lot of messages to thank us and our guests for the content that we put out which I can only assume means that you are getting value from the podcast. If you’d like to support us then please do give us a rating and review.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to help you build better businesses, better fintech products, and a better you.
Welcome to the ‘How to be Moderately Successful’ podcast. I’m your host Mike Scott, co-founder & CEO of Nona Digital.
Today I’m talking to Benji Meltzer from Aerobotics who is not a typical guest in that he is not in FinTech, but I still believe that we will get value from today's discussion.
Benji studied a business science degree with first-class honours in Mechatronics engineering before attending The Imperial College of London where he studied an MSc in Biomedical Engineering with a specialization in neurotechnology and graduated with distinction.
Benji then went on to work as a business analyst building software models to evaluate strategic decisions, mainly in the mining industry before moving on to become the operations and logistics manager for Uber South Africa.
Benji is now solely focused on Aerobotics where he is the co-founder and CTO. Aerobotics is focused on developing Artificial intelligence systems for unmanned aerial vehicles specifically focussing on the agriculture industry. It has raised around $27m to date, has customers in 20 countries, and is sitting on around 120m trees analyzed. They are a rapidly growing African scale up playing on a global stage and a really impressive business.
At only 31 years old, Benji is a super impressive guy. Welcome Benji. It's great to have to you on the show.
Thanks for listening to the ‘How to be Moderately Successful’ podcast. This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products, and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a FinTech business is difficult and building the software that enables that business, that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's hyper-competitive environment, getting your software built right really matters, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next deal, and making the impact that you need to make. This is where Nona can help.
With an excellent track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.
We’re small enough so that you are always close to the principals but big enough to be able to deliver at the highest standards consistently without KPD’s. We have deep expertise in FinTech, and particularly in Blockchain application development.
So, if you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you. Head over to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals.
We are actively hiring senior developers and technical leads, and are offering a very decent reward for any referrals. If you know any senior developers that might be a good fit for Nona, please get in touch and there might be a meaningful reward in it for you.
We get a lot of messages to thank us and our guests for the content that we put out which I can only assume means that you are getting value from the podcast. If you’d like to support us then please do give us a rating and review.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to help you build better businesses, better fintech products, and a better you.
Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful’ podcast. I’m your host Mike Scott, Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products, and a better version of yourself.
We get a lot of messages to thank us and our guests for the content that we put out which I can only assume means that you are getting value from the podcast. If you’d like to support us then please do give us a rating and review.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital. Building a FinTech business is difficult and building the software that enables that business, that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's hyper-competitive environment, getting your software built right really matters, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next deal, and making the impact that you need to make. This is where Nona can help.
With an excellent track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.
We’re small enough so that you are always close to the principals but big enough to be able to deliver at the highest standards consistently without KPD’s. We have deep expertise in FinTech, and particularly in Blockchain application development.
So, if you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you. Head over to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals.
We are actively hiring senior developers and technical leads and are offering a very decent reward for any referrals. So if you know any senior developers that might be a good fit for Nona, please get in touch and there might be a meaningful reward in it for you.
And now, on to the show…
Today my guest is Jins Kadwood who brings with him a really interesting set of skills and experience around building and scaling high-performance teams which originated from an interesting source which we will get into later.
Jins has had a wide range of experience in the tech scene ranging from founder to CTO to CPO to COO and everything in between.
His current focus is as CTO at Agridigital whose focus is to make grain supply chains easy. Agridigital has already processed over $5bn worth of transactions, given out $50m worth of loans to farmers, and has 15000 active users.
Jins has a bachelor's in software engineering and a master's in computer science and won the CIO/CTO of the year award in 2018 from FinTech Australia.
Thanks for joining us Jins.
Thanks for listening to the How to be Moderately Successful podcast.
If you have a FinTech project that you would like to accelerate with a partner that will take care of your design and development to allow you to focus on your area of genius, we’d love to help you. Head over to our website www.nona.digital to book a call with one of our principles.
And, another plug that we are actively hiring senior developers and we’re offering a very tasty reward for any successful referrals.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to help you build better businesses, better fintech products, and a better you.
Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful' podcast. I’m your host Mike Scott, co-Founder, and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products, and a better version of yourself.
If you’d like to support us then please do give us a rating and review, you’ll be surprised at how much each one helps us.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital. Building a FinTech business is difficult and building the software that enables that business, that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's hyper-competitive environment, getting your software built right really matters, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next deal, and making the impact that you need to make. This is where Nona can help.
With an excellent track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.
We’re small enough so that you are always close to the principals but big enough to be able to deliver at the highest standards consistently without KPD’s. We have deep expertise in FinTech, and particularly in Blockchain application development.
So, if you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Head over to our website to book a call directly with one of the principals.
And now, on to the show…
Today I’ve got Ned Phillips joining me who is one impressive guy.
Ned has been around FinTech since before it was called Fintech. Back in the late 90’s ned was one of the first brokers at E-Trade and went on to become the managing director of the company.
He was also part of the stock exchange transformation where he developed two pan-Asian exchanges.
Ned experienced the dot-com boom with one of the original Fintech companies and consulted 8 securities when they launched the first Robo Advisor in Asia.
This all led up to Ned’s current focus which is as the Founder and CEO of Bambu.
Bambu is a global leader in the robo-advisory space working with some of the biggest names in FinTech and banking.
Launched in 2016 they are a growing team of 80 people who have raised around $15m and are about to raise another $25m.
They have also won a slew of Fintech and Startup awards including one particular award that we will speak about later in the show.
They aim to be profitable in the next 6-12 months and have their sights set on becoming the global leaders in the space.
Ned is also an impressive athlete choosing to put himself through some grueling ultra-endurance races which we’ll get into a little later.
Welcome Ned, it’s great to have you on the show and I’m looking forward to the conversation.
Thanks for listening!
If you have a FinTech project that you would like to accelerate with a partner that will take care of your design and development to allow you to focus on your area of genius, we’d love to help you.
Head over to our websiteto book a call with one of our principles. And, another plug that we are actively hiring senior developers and we’re offering a very tasty reward for any successful referrals.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to help you build better businesses, better fintech products, and a better you.
Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful' podcast. I’m your host Mike Scott, Co-Founder, and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products, and a better version of yourself.
We get a lot of messages to thank us and our guests for the content that we put out which I can only assume means that you are getting value from the podcast.
If you’d like to support us then please do give us a rating and review, you’ll be surprised at how much each one helps us.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital. Building a FinTech business is difficult and building the software that enables that business, that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's hyper-competitive environment, getting your software built right really matters, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next deal, and making the impact that you need to make. This is where Nona can help.
With an excellent track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.
We’re small enough so that you are always close to the principals but big enough to be able to deliver at the highest standards consistently without KPD’s.
We have deep expertise in FinTech, and particularly in blockchain application development.
We also have a proven track record of expanding and evaluating internal tech teams and capabilities for our partners.
So, if you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Head over to our website to book a call directly with one of the principals or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
We are actively hiring senior developers and technical leads and are offering very decent bounties for any referrals. So, if you know any senior developers that might be a good fit for Nona, please get in touch and there might be a meaningful reward in it for you.
And now, on to the show...
Today my guests are Dave who is no stranger to the show, he is one of my partners at Nona and our CTO and for his first appearance, we are welcoming James Smith today who is our Head of engineering at Nona.
Thanks for listening to the How to be Moderately Successful Podcast.
If you have a FinTech project that you would like to accelerate with a partner that will take care of your design and development to allow you to focus on your area of genius, we’d love to help you. Head over to our website.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to help you build better businesses, better fintech products, and a better you.
Welcome to the ‘How to be Moderately Successful’ podcast. I’m your host Mike Scott, Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products, and a better version of yourself. If you’d like to support us then please do give us a rating and review, you’ll be surprised at how much each one helps us.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital. Building a FinTech business is difficult. And, building the software that enables that business, that scales and that your users love is very difficult. If you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you. Head over to our website to book a call with one of our principles.
And now, on to the show...
Today my guest is Riccardo Spagni who is also and possibly even better known as Fluffy Pony.
Ric is I think most widely known through his role as the lead maintainer of Monero, a privacy-centric cryptocurrency project that aims to obfuscate the linkability of transactions across source, quantity, and destination. But his career spans a lot further than just Monero.
In 2016 he launched Globee, a multi-currency payment processor. In the same year, Ric also founded Tari, whose mission is to be the most useful decentralized platform that empowers anyone to create digitally scarce things people love.
And now, Ric’s most recent project is Yat which is a really interesting project that is censorship-resistant emoji-based online identities. This project has not yet launched but you can join the waitlist at y.at. I already have.
What struck me about Ric from the first time that I spoke to him was how open he was to meet with people. He is one of the biggest names in crypto and yet still has time for a lot of people which speaks to his character.
Welcome Ric, it’s great to have you on the show.
Thanks for listening!
We are actively hiring senior developers and technical leads and are offering very decent bounties for any referrals. So, if you know any senior developers that might be a good fit for Nona, please get in touch and there might be a meaningful reward in it for you.
I’ll be back next week with another episode to help you build better businesses, better fintech products, and a better you.
Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful podcast’, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products and a better version of yourself.
If you’d like to support us then please do give us a rating and review, you’ll be surprised at how much each one helps us.
https://ratethispodcast.com/howtobemoderatelysuccessful.
We’ll drop this in the show notes too...thanks in advance!
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a FinTech business is difficult and building the software that enables that business, that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's hyper competitive environment, getting your software built right really matters, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next deal and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where Nona can help,
With an excellent track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.
We’re small enough so that you are always close to the principals but big enough to be able to deliver at the highest standards consistently without KPD’s
We have deep expertise in FinTech, and particularly in blockchain application development.
We also have a proven track record of expanding and evaluating internal tech teams and capabilities for our partners.
So, if you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Head over to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
And now, on to the show...
Today my guest is a serial FinTech entrepreneur. Andrew Anastasiou from Legion Pay.
Andrew has been involved in and founded multiple businesses in the FinTech space.
Andrew’s current focus is as co-founder of LegionPay, a high-risk payment consultancy firm focusing on digital payments such as crypto and card acquiring solutions.
Andrew also founded WealthKingdom, and TheFintechPost, a google news portal providing updates and insights on the Fintech industry.
Andrew has been featured in a bunch of publications, including The Statesman, MarketWatch, and International Business Times.
Andrew is clearly a very capable entrepreneur with a ton of experience and at only 32 years that's really impressive.
**What struck me immediately about Andrew was how open he is and how he seems to genuinely want to build great products and help people.
Welcome Andrew, it’s great to have you on the show.**
If you have a FinTech project that you would like to accelerate with a partner that will take care of your design and development to allow you to focus on your area of genius, we’d love to help you.
Head over to our website www.nona.digital to book a call with one of our principles or follow any of the contacts in the show notes.And, another plug that we are actively hiring senior developers and we’re offering a very tasty reward for any successful referrals.I’ll be back next week with another episode to help you build better businesses, better fintech products, and a better you.
Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful podcast’, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products and a better version of yourself.
We get a lot of messages to thank us and our guests for the content that we put out which I can only assume means that you are getting value from the podcast.
If you’d like to support us then please do give us a rating and review, you’ll be surprised at how much each one helps us.
We set up a link to make it easier, just go to https://ratethispodcast.com/howtobemoderatelysuccessful.
We’ll drop this in the show notes too...thanks in advance!
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a FinTech business is difficult and building the software that powers that business, that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's competitive environment, getting your software build right really matters, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.This is where Nona can help,
With a strong track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.
We’re small enough so that you are always close to the principals but big enough to be able to deliver at the highest standards consistently without KPD’s
We have deep expertise in FinTech, and particularly in blockchain application development.
We also have a proven track record of expanding and evaluating internal tech teams and capabilities for our partners.
So, if you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Head over to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.And now, on to the show.
Today my guest is Anthony Di Iorio who is one impressive human.
In 2013 Anthony funded and Co-Founded Ethereum which is, today, a decentralised blockchain protocol that in just the last 24 hours would have successfully processed over 1.2m transactions.
The native cryptocurrency to Ethereum, Ether, now has a market cap of over $240bn.
Anthony has invested tens of millions of dollars in numerous industries including blockchain and has launched many companies himself.
His current focus and how he and I met is as the Founder and CEO of Decentral, a Toronto-based innovation hub and software development company focussed on decentralized technologies.
Decentral is the creator of the Jaxx liberty wallet and platform which has had literally millions of downloads with zero marketing spend which is just mind-blowing.
Previously Anthony was the Chief Digital Officer for the Toronto Stock Exchange and held an Adjunct Professor position at the University of Toronto.
He has stacked up a slew of awards including:
EY’s emerging entrepreneur of the year award
Fintech leader of the year award
And
Toronto’s list of the 50 most influential people in 2018.
Apart from his razor-sharp mind and ludicrously impressive career, Anthony is a truly nice guy and someone that I really enjoy talking to.
Welcome Anthony, I’m so glad you could make it.
Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful podcast’, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a FinTech business is difficult and building the software that powers that business, that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's competitive environment, you just can't afford to get your tech wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we can help,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner.
We’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.
We’re small enough so that you are always close to the principals but big enough to be able to deliver at the highest standard consistently without KMD’s
We have deep expertise in FinTech, and particularly Blockchain.
We have a proven track record of expanding and evaluating tech teams and capabilities for our partners.
If you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Lungisa Matshoba.
After completing a Business and Computer Science degree Lungi set out to build the world's first VoIP service that would work on a smartphone. They raised some investment and after two years joined the TelFree group. Keep in mind this was before the smartphone and this tech was running on Windows Mobile and Symbian OS phones so Lungi has been around for a while in the tech space.
In Feb of 2013 Lungi co-founded Yoco where he is the CTO today.
Yoco is one of the big African FinTech names. They build tools and services to help small businesses get paid, run their businesses, and grow.
To date they have over 120 000 paying customers and are on a massive growth trajectory.
Lungi is articulate, surprisingly calm for someone that's part of the leadership of a rocket ship like Yoco and also a genuinely nice guy.
Welcome Lungi, it’s really great to have you on the show.
*** *If you have a Fintech project that you would like to accelerate with a partner that will take care of your design and development to allow you to focus on your area of genius, we’d love to help you.
Head over to our website www.nona.digital to book a call with one of our principles or follow any of the contacts in the show notes.
Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful podcast’, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a FinTech business is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's competitive environment, you just can't afford to get your tech wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next round, and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we can help,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner. We’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.
If you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Nic Haralambous, who, if you living in South Africa you probably already know.
Nic is a global speaker on entrepreneurship, side hustles and curiosity.
He has authored a few books now, the most recent of which is How to Start a side hustle which I believe is a very timeous piece of content.
He has built and sold multiple startups over his career which began when he was 16 years young.
Nic recently launched the Slow Fund in South Africa which gives away R1000 every day for 365 days to help an aspiring entrepreneur to kick start their side hustle.
Nic is an original thinker, someone that is fearless in his opinions, and an all-around nice guy.
I got to know Nic properly while we were both at Consensus in NY in 2018 over probably too many beers but I really enjoy his conversation and insights and I am sure that this will be an episode filled with practical takeaways that you will be able to apply to your business and life.
Welcome Nic, great to have you on.
If you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals.
Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful podcast’, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a FinTech business is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's competitive environment, you just can't afford to get your tech wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next round, and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we can help,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner. We’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.
If you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Daniel Dubois who is one inspirational human.
His bio is kind of ridiculous so I am going to pick out just a few things that jumped out at me, keeping in mind that Daniel is just 29 years old:
A top 30 under 30 winner.
Canadian G20 Delegate
Two-time venture-backed company exits.
Co-founded a laneway housing company which led to a $50m property development.
Has traveled to over 30 countries
Turned down a professional basketball contract to follow his passion by joining the next Big Thing fellowship.
Daniel is one of 14 A360 scholars chosen by Peter Diamandis.
Daniel worked for Airbnb for 2 years where he made some interesting observations which led him to his current focus which is as the co-founder and President of Key.
Key is fundamentally changing the way real estate works for the better, for the many, making financial prosperity realistic and attainable.
They have raised over $5m in their friends and family round and over $1Bn in real estate tied up.
If you are in the property market you’ll want to watch these guys, not just in Canada but globally.
Daniel is a super impressive guy and at only 29 years old I get the feeling that he is just getting started.
Welcome Dan, it’s great to have you on the show, and thanks for making the time.
If you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals.
Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful podcast’, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products, and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a FinTech business is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's competitive environment, you just can't afford to get your tech wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next round, and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we can help,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner. We’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.
If you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Bryan Habana, who likely needs no introduction if you live anywhere in the world where you are able to watch Rugby.
But just in case you live in a place like Adelaide that doesn’t follow Rugby Union Bryan is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in Rugby history with a list of achievements and accolades that is too long to list. He is an absolute rugby legend
What some might not be aware of though is that Bryan has also got a strong entrepreneurial and business streak in him which he is now focussing on and doing very well.
Bryans's current focus is as co-founder and head of business development at the PayMeNow Group which is FinTech that provides an employee benefits platform offering early salary advances, focusing on responsible financial inclusion.
Bryan is a super nice guy and I have no doubt that you will get some value from this discussion.
Welcome Bryan, it’s great to have you on the show.
If you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals.
Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful podcast’, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a FinTech business is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's competitive environment, you just can't afford to get your tech wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next round, and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we can help,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner. We’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.
If you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest Yaniv Bernstein and I'm really excited about today's theme. We are going to be discussing what it really takes to build a tech team for your product.
Yaniv completed his PhD in Computer science in 2006 and then went to work at Google as a software engineering manager for 5 years on the youtube team.
He then did a stint at IBM for just over a year before going back to google for another 4 years this time to work on the google maps team.
In May 2018 Yaniv joined the Airtasker team as VP of engineering and then in March 2020 he became COO and that is his current focus and where it would appear he has found his area of genius.
Airtasker is an AUS based scaleup that connects experts to get the job done across almost any task that you can think of.
They have raised over $25m in funding to date and are set for an IPO in the very near future.
Their team is around 100 strong and growing.
Yaniv also has a newsletter called WTFisaCOO which delivers weekly insights into organizational leadership in tech and beyond.
Welcome, Yaniv it is great to have you on the show.
If you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals.
Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful podcast’, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better fintech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a Fintech business is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's competitive environment, you just can't afford to get your tech wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we can help.
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for Fintech companies around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner.
We’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care
We are small enough so that you are always close to the principals but big enough to be able to deliver at the highest standard consistently without key person dependencies.
We have deep expertise in Fintech, and particularly Blockchain
We have a proven track record of expanding and evaluating tech teams and capabilities for our partners.
Hiring great talent is critical to any tech businesses' success, whether it is internal or outsourced.
Oftentimes people don't know how to vet this talent to avoid making bad hires.
I certainly speak from experience when I say that making bad hires can be one of the most costly mistakes that one can make in business and especially in tech so getting this right is essential.
Today I have got my business partner and CTO at Nona Dave O'Reilly to get into this discussion with me.
Dave brings more than 20 years of experience in this field and countless interviews and hires so he is really well placed to share some insights and experience.
He is also an incredibly talented developer in his own right which of course really helps when it comes to assessing talent.
Welcome back, Dave.
If you would like to accelerate your fintech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful podcast’, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better Fintech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a Fintech business is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's competitive environment, you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we can help,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for Fintech companies around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner to take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards.
If you would like to accelerate your fintech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with me or my co-founder or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today I'm joined by Saskia Koning who is our head of production at Nona.
Sas is an absolute power house. She joined our business more than 6 years ago in a junior role and through massive amounts of blood sweat and tears she has worked her way up to head of production and has got the scars to show. She brings a consistency that is difficult to find and a get shit done mindset that is so necessary in this role.
Sas has worked on over 100 projects and above all of this she is a really nice human.
Welcome Sas.
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a Fintech project that you would like to accelerate or to apply to come onto the podcast as a guest, please do:
Mike on Linkedin
hello@nona.digital
Nona's website.
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better fintech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a fintech business is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's environment, you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we can help,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for fintech companies around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner to take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards.
If you would like to accelerate your fintech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Andrew Boryk from Lunchbox.io
Andrew started coding when he was 12 years old and hasn't stopped since.
Having been involved in various startups both his own and others as well as having worked for some global companies like Johnson and Johnson he has amassed a wealth of experience, knowledge and capability which now sees him focussed on Lunchbox.io where he is the co-founder and CTO.
Lunchbox brings a collection of enterprise solutions that redefine the digital restaurant experience.
They are absolutely flying.
They have and have got a rapidly growing team of 80 people when in just March last year at the beginning of Covid they were just 12 people.
They have just closed their series A round of $20m at a valuation of $100m and they have just passed $2m in ARR.
These guys are growing at 20% month on month and just getting started.
Andrew has got great energy and I know that today will be full of practical take ways.
Welcome Andrew, it’s great to have you on the show.
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a fintech project that you would like to accelerate or to apply to come onto the podcast as a guest, please do:
Mike on Linkedin
hello@nona.digital
Nona's website.
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better fintech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a fintech business is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's environment, you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we can help,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for fintech companies around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner to take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards.
If you would like to accelerate your fintech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Verne Harnish who doesn't really need an intro but just in case, on the off chance anyone listening doesn't know who Verne is, here is a brief introduction.
Verne is the founder of the Entrepreneurs Organisation which I have been a member of and have served on the board of and it is a truly transformational organisation.
With over 14000 members spread over 61 countries and with an average revenue per member company of US5m it really is the leading organization to help entrepreneurs to realise their potential.
Founder and CEO of Scaling Up which is a global coaching company with over 180 partners around the world.
Author of ‘Mastering the Rockefeller habits’ and 'Scaling Up' which is one of the best business books out there and which today forms the foundation of the EO Accelerator program.
Verne is world-renowned speaker and also writes for Fortune magazine as the ‘growth guy’.
Welcome Verne, it’s so great to have you on the show, thank you for making the time.
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project that you would like to accelerate or to apply to come onto the podcast as a guest, please do:
Mike on Linkedin
hello@nona.digital
Nona's website.
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better fintech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a fintech business is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's environment, you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we can help,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for fintech companies around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner to take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards.
If you would like to accelerate your fintech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Huw Edwards.
Where do I begin with an intro for Huw?
Mathematics degree from Oxford
MBA with distinction from Harvard
Goldman Sachs Investment banker
Bridgewater senior management associate - where he was introduced to meditation by none other than Ray Dalio.
Member of the forbes business council
Tech investor and advisor
Board member for EO San Antonio
Co-founder and CEO of Cyberfortress.
Ultra distance runner and 2-time finisher of the notorious Leadville 100.
Self-described with the biggest smile on his face as f#cked up and over-educated Huy is honestly one of the most interesting, and inspiring people that I have had the pleasure of speaking to.
What blew me away was that with this absolute insane bio he is one of the most open, friendly and humble people I have come across and he just makes shit look so easy.
This guy is an absolute powerhouse of a human and someone that I know I will learn a lot from.
Welcome Huw, it is so great to have you on the show!
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project that you would like to accelerate or to apply to come onto the podcast as a guest, please do:
Mike on Linkedin
hello@nona.digital
Nona's website.
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better fintech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a fintech business is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's environment, you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we can help,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for fintech companies around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner to take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards.
If you would like to accelerate your fintech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is my co-founder and head of design at Nona, Gordon Angus. Welcome back Gord.
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project that you would like to accelerate or to apply to come onto the podcast as a guest, please do:
Mike on Linkedin
hello@nona.digital
Nona's website.
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better fintech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building a fintech business is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's environment, you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we can help,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for fintech companies around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner to take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards.
If you would like to accelerate your fintech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Aisha Pandor from Sweepsouth who is just such a powerhouse of a woman.
Her accomplishments are far too long to list but I’ll pick out a few.
She has a PhD in Human genetics from the Univeristy of Cape Town where she received multiple awards and scholarships.
While she was doing her PhD she also completed a postgraduate in business administration where she was class president and was the top student in her class.
While working as a management consultant at Accenture she was ranked top 3 in her peer group in the EMEA region.
After 2 years at Accenture Aisha co-founded Sweepsouth, a tech startup which is still her focus today.
Sweepsouth provides a convenient way to book home cleaning services online from a phone, tablet or computer, connecting clients to cleaners in minutes. By bringing technology into the process, they aim to modernise the domestic cleaning services industry.
Sweepsouth reached 1 million bookings late last year so they are really making an impact.
Aisha has got a string of awards and recognitions some of which include:
- South African women in science award
- Mail and Guardian top 200 young south africans
- Forbes Africa top African millienels
- Price check female entrepreneur of the year award.
- And recently scooped up the Forbes Woman Africa technology and innovation award.
I was actually at school with Aisha so watching her journey has been extra cool for me.
Welcome Aisha, it’s great to have you on the show. ***
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project that you would like to accelerate or to apply to come onto the podcast as a guest, please do:
Mike on Linkedin
hello@nona.digital
Nona's website.
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better fintech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building fintech software is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's environment you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we can help,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for fintech companies around the world we are a great choice of tech partner.
If you would like to accelerate your fintech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
You can get in touch at hello@nona.digital or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Joana Inch from Hat Media.
Jo is a Sydney based B2B marketing specialist who has been in the space for over 15 years.
She is the co-founder and head of digital Hat Media focuses mainly on tech and SaaS businesses to scale their B2B leads and create predictable revenue.
She is the author of Go to Market, the marketing and scaling blueprint for startups and she also hosts the ‘SaaS stories’ Webinar stories.
Welcome Jo, it’s great to have you on the show.
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project that you would like to accelerate or to apply to come onto the podcast as a guest, please do:
Mike on Linkedin
hello@nona.digital
Nona's website.
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better fintech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building fintech software is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's environment, you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we can help,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for fintech companies around the world we are a great choice of tech partner.
If you would like to accelerate your fintech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
Go to www.nona.digital or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Azadeh Wiliams from marketing and media business AZK.
Azadeh has brings a wealth of experience in the media and marketing space.
With 15 years in the tech space and having interviewed global executives from top companies like Amazon, Microsoft and IBM Watson she brings with her a wealth of media and marketing knowledge.
Azadeh is also in the top B&T women in power list and is on the judging panel for the IT journalism awards.
Welcome Azadeh, it’s great to have you on the show.
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project that you would like to accelerate or to apply to come onto the podcast as a guest, please do:
Mike on Linkedin
hello@nona.digital
Nona's website.
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better fintech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building fintech software is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's environment you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we can help,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for fintech companies around the world we are a great choice of tech partner.
If you would like to accelerate your fintech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.
You can get in touch at hello@nona.digital or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Monique Baars.
Monique is one impressive women.
Throughout her initial Masters degree in Investment management, she wracked up Deans list appearances and class medals for academic performance.
She worked as a management consultant for The Boston Consulting Group which saw her working on projects across South Africa, Botswana, France, Bahrain and Kuwait.
During this time Monique had a profound experience in a helicopter which resulted in her leaving BCG which I’m sure we will get to later.
Monique then went on to do her MBA through the London Business School in London where she now lives and is building her fintech startup Fineazy.
Fineazy delivers a sustainable business solution to address the global financial illiteracy crisis so all people are educated and empowered to make excellent financial decisions.
Monique has got great energy and a razor-sharp mind and I'm excited to have her on the show.
Welcome Monique, it’s great to have you here.
If you have a fintech project that you would like to accelerate with a partner that offers excellent quality to cost ratios we’d love to hear from you.
Head over to our website www.nona.digital or follow any of the contacts in the show notes.
I’ll be back soon with another episode to help you build better businesses, better fintech products and a better you.
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better tech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building software is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's environment, you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we come in,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for clients around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner.
If you would like to accelerate your software project with a team of experts at an excellent quality to cost ratio, we’d love to hear from you.
You can get in touch at hello@nona.digital or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Dominic Pym from Up.
Dom is an impressive entrepreneur, technologist and investor that is based in Melbourne but has had a career that has taken him out of and then back into Australia.
Dom is the co-founder of numerous ventures including Ferocia, Clear interactive and Pin payments and as an expert in the internet banking space, his current focus is Up Banking which is a digital bank designed to help you organise your money and simplify your life.
Up has become the biggest digital bank in Australia with over 300 000 users.
The team is growing quickly and currently sits at around 65 dedicated people with a bunch more through their strong partnership with Bendigo bank.
Dom is clearly very passionate about building businesses and products that help people and he is one of those very rare people that has deep capability and understanding of design, development and business. The other thing about Dom is that he’s also just a really nice guy.
Welcome Dom, it’s great to have you on the show.
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project that you would like to accelerate or to apply to come onto the podcast as a guest, please do:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/hello@nona.digitalwww.nona.digitalhttps://dribbble.com/nonadigitalteam
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better tech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building software is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's environment you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make
This is where we come in.
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for clients around the world we are a great choice of tech partner.
If you would like to accelerate your software project with a team of experts at an excellent quality to cost ratio, we’d love to hear from you.
You can get in touch at hello@nona.digital or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Katryna Dow founder and CEO Meeco.
Katryna is one very impressive woman in business.
With extensive experience in both the corporate and startup spaces her main focus today is Meeco.
Meeco is a multi award-winning platform that gives people and organisations the tools to access. Control and create mutual value from personal data. And do this privately, securely and with explicit consent.
Katryna is a pioneer in the blockchain and distributed ledger space.
Katryna has grown the team to 25 people and has raised around $12.5m to date.
Welcome Katryna, it’s great to have you on the show.
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project that you would like to accelerate or to apply to come onto the podcast as a guest, please do:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/hello@nona.digital https://www.nona.digitalhttps://dribbble.com/nonadigitalteam
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better tech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building software is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's environment, you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we come in,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for clients around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner.
If you would like to accelerate your software project with a team of experts at an excellent quality to cost ratio, we’d love to hear from you.
You can get in touch at hello@nona.digital or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today I’ve got Will Green and Ed O’Reilly with me.
WIll is a seasoned entrepreneur and has been involved in a wide range of startups both his own and as an advisor and mentor.
His current focus is as program director at The Grindstone Accelerator, a structured entrepreneurship development programme that assists high-growth innovation-driven companies to get the fundamental building blocks in place to scale quickly and become sustainable and fundable. Incidentally, Nona was in th grindstone program a few years back and it was pretty great.
Will brings a massive amount of experience with him, he is a critical thinker and a really nice guy.
Ed is my co-founder and the COO of Nona.
Having worked on over 200 software projects over his career around the world he brings a massive amount of first-hand experience building products for a diverse range of businesses from bootstrapping fledgeling startups barely able to afford to eat through to startups that have raised multiple hundreds of millions of dollars.
He holds a degree in Actuarial science and is one of the smartest people I have ever met.
Welcome Will it’s great to have you on and welcome back Ed.
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project that you would like to accelerate or to apply to come onto the podcast as a guest, please do:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/hello@nona.digital https://www.nona.digitalhttps://dribbble.com/nonadigitalteam
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better tech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building software is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's environment, you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we come in,
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for clients around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner.
If you would like to accelerate your software project with a team of experts at excellent quality to cost ratio, we’d love to hear from you.
You can get in touch at hello@nona.digital or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Tarek Ayoub from Beforepay.
Tarek is a serial entrepreneur who previously worked as a management consultant generating more than $1.5bn dollars for companies through his consulting.
Tareks current focus is as the co-founder and CEO of beforepay and has recently closed a $6m funding round to accelerate their growth.
Beforepay is an app that helps its members budget better, spend smarter and get access to a portion of their pay when they need it.
It is rumoured that he is currently undergoing a $10m pre-IPO capital raise.
Just recently Beforpay won the Fintech Startup of the year award in AUS and they have attracted some very strong investors already.
He has a great energy and I can tell from the small amount of time that I have spent speaking to him that he is super passionate about what he and his team are building. And that he is absolutely a subject matter expert that saw a gap in the market and is doing really to take advantage of it.
Tarek has raised over $9m in funding already and has built a team of 25 that is quickly growing.
Great to have you on the show today Tarek.
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project that you would like to accelerate or to apply to come onto the podcast as a guest, please do:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/hello@nona.digital https://www.nona.digitalhttps://dribbble.com/nonadigitalteam
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better tech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building software is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's environment, you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we come in.
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for clients around the world we are a great choice of tech partner for your project.
If you have a project that you would like to discuss, we’d love to hear from you.
You can get in touch at hello@nona.digital or follow any of the contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Daniel Guasco who is one of South Africa's top tech entrepreneurs and someone who's name you can't escape if you are in the African tech circles.
I’ve actually known Dan since my school days at Westerford in Cape Town so it’s been pretty incredible to watch his journey.
Dan’s list of achievements in businesses is too long to mention but to pick out a few highlights:
Dan was the CO-CEO of Groupon South Africa which, at its peak was rumoured be around R500m but Dan would not confirm nor deny in revenue, employing over 200 people and ended with a very significant exit.
Dan, together with his partner from his Groupon days is also the Co-CEO of team Africa Ventures, an early-stage investment fund that has got 17 portfolio companies in Africa including Lula lend and LifeQ two great companies doing great things.
Dan holds a string of awards which include being recognised as having made the biggest impact on e-commerce in Africa.
Dan's current focus is Click2sure a SaaS platform that enables businesses offering insurance, omnichannel distribution, reduction in administration costs, and better decisions with real-time reporting and insights.
Dan holds an MBA from London Business School and this is quite amazing because has was diagnosed with ADHD but didn’t let that stop him.
Dan is an obsessive entrepreneur - he even runs his family home as an Airbnb, not because he needs to but because he just can't help himself.
Really stoked to have you on the show Dan, welcome.
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project that you would like to accelerate or to apply to come onto the podcast as a guest, please do:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/hello@nona.digital https://www.nona.digitalhttps://dribbble.com/nonadigitalteam
Welcome to the how to be moderately successful podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better tech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building software is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is even harder.
In today's environment, you just can't afford to get it wrong.
This is where we come in.
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for clients around the world at difficult to match quality to cost ratios we are a great choice of tech partner for your project.
If you have a project that you would like to discuss, we’d love to hear from you.
You can get in touch with us on hello@nona.digital or follow any of the contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Ben Smit.
He is a co-founder and CEO of Teamgage, software that enables team collaboration, wellbeing, and continuous improvement which is now serving clients across Australia, Asia Pacific and the US.
Bens team is now 18 and growing and last financial year they saw growth of over 130% on their annual recurring revenue.
Ben is also the winner of the 40 under 40 award.
Welcome Ben, it’s great to have you on the show.
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project or an episode, please do:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/hello@nona.digital https://www.nona.digitalhttps://dribbble.com/nonadigitalteam
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better tech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building software is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult.
In today's environment, you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.
This is where we come in.
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for clients around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner for your project.
If you have a project that you would like to discuss, we’d love to hear from you.
You can get in touch at hello@nona.digital or follow any of the contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Rupert Taylor Price who is someone that I have come to know quite well since moving to Australia and someone that is so impressive it’s hard to keep up.
His story is great and we’ll learn more about it but here are some highlights:
First job at 12 years old in a warehouse in the UK.
He then did an honours degree in physics before working in the recruitment world where he learned some valuable lessons for his future career.
At 23 he Started Hivetec, a SaaS platform that delivers flexible software for employment care and support services in Australia.
This business grew to around $5m in revenue with extremely impressive margins.
He then started Vault Cloud at 29 years old a secure cloud solution for governments and critical industries.
Rupert raised a staggering $350m of committed capital for Vault cloud which has got to be one of the biggest raises in Aussie history for such an early-stage startup.
When he is not totally killing it in business he is flying his plane, sailing a boat somewhere or running a marathon.
Rupert humility is quite staggering, and it blows my mind that from time to time he asks me for my opinion on something which seems nuts but I suspect this is why he is so far ahead because he is open to learning from anyone about whatever he needs to learn about.
Rupert, welcome, it’s great to have you on the show.
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project or an episode, please do:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
hello@nona.digital
https://www.nona.digital
https://dribbble.com/nonadigitalteam
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better tech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building software is hard and building software that scales and that your users love is even harder.
In today's environment, you just can't afford to get it wrong.
This is where we come in.
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for clients around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner for your project.
If you have a project that you would like to discuss, we’d love to hear from you.
You can get in touch at hello@nona.digital or follow any of the contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Nick Jones who is an impressive tech entrepreneur and investor.
Nick’s current focus is as the co-founder and CEO of Zumo.
Zumo is a wallet that makes your money and cryptocurrency work seamlessly together.
Welcome Nick, great to have you on the show.
You can get hold of Nick at nick@zumo.money
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project or an episode, please do:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
hello@nona.digital
https://www.nona.digital
https://dribbble.com/nonadigitalteam
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better tech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building software is hard and building software that scales and that your users love is even harder.
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for clients around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner.
If you have a project that you would like to discuss, please do get in touch. You can reach us at hello@nona.digital or through any of the contacts in the show notes.
Today my guest is Lindsay Rogers co-founder and MD of Chello, a 20 person brand and creative agency based in Sydney.
Chello puts out some seriously awesome work and this is evidenced by some impressive clients which include:
- Shopify
- Volkswagon
- Qudos bank
- and many more
Lindsay has been recognised by more than a few awards, not least of which include:
- Forbes 30 under 30
- Telstra women's business award
- Mumbrella
- B and T
Lindsay is also a communications expert for the APAC region of the entrepreneurs organization.
I met Lindsay a while back in Sydney and I was really impressed at her super relaxed demeanour despite clearly being an operator of note.
Lindsay is one of those people that just makes shit look easy.
Welcome Linds, it’s great to have you.
You can get hold of Lindsay here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindzrogers/
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project or an episode, please do:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
hello@nona.digital
https://www.nona.digital
https://dribbble.com/nonadigitalteam
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better tech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building software is hard and building software that scales and that your users love is even harder.
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for clients around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner for your project.
If you have a project that you would like to discuss, we’d love to hear from you.
You can get in touch at hello@nona.digital.
Today my guest is Fred Schebesta one of Australia's top entrepreneurs who is best known for co-founding one of the world's leading comparison websites, Finder.com.
Today Finder is in 83 countries and sees over 10 million visitors each month.
Fred also leads Finder's venture capital arm, Finder Ventures and is currently focused on the firm's biggest project yet which is a $5m investment into the Finder app.
Fred is on the young rich list and has amassed an impressed $193m personal net worth and I get the sense that he has not even hit his stride yet.
I’m going to stop there with his introduction because if I list all of his achievements, awards, contributions and accolades we won't have any time to talk!
He is a force of energy and inspiration, a fierce cryptocurrency advocate and what has impressed me since I first met Fred in New York in 2018 is just how accessible he is to like-minded people.
Welcome Fred, I’m psyched to have you on the show.
You can follow Fred here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredschebesta/
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project or an episode, please do:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
hello@nona.digital
https://www.nona.digital
https://dribbble.com/nonadigitalteam
Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better tech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Building software is hard and building software that scales and that your users love is even harder.
With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for clients around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner.
If you have a project that you would like to discuss, we’d love to hear from you. You can get in touch at hello@nona.digital.
Today I’ve got Dave with me again.
Dave is my partner at Nona and our CTO.
Dave has been programming since ‘91 and has worked with some of the world's leading brands on a massive range of projects across too many industries and technologies to mention.
He holds a computer science degree with honours in Semantic Computing.
Naval Ravikant is one of my favourite sources of wisdom and he speaks about how to determine who is worth listening to and who isn’t and one of his main points is to differentiate between people who are memorizing their content and essentially just repeating it and people who understand their subject matter from first principles. Dave is the best example that I know personally. Dave explains highly complex concepts from first principles and he does it in a way that is accessible and in a way that actually leaves the person that he is speaking to feeling smarter rather than overwhelmed and that's a gift.
Dave also likes cool t-shirts, BMW’s and computer games.
You can get hold of Dave here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davedavedave/
The book Dave mentioned: The DynamoDB Book by Alex Debrie
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project or an episode, please do:
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Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I'm your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.
This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better tech products and a better version of yourself.
Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.
Nona Digital helps funded businesses accelerate their software projects. With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for clients around the world we are a great choice of tech partner. You can get in touch at hello@nona.digital.
Today my guest is Paul Galatis who is a super impressive guy.
Paul was one of the original directors and now non-executive director of Yuppiechef.com which is the most awarded e-commerce business in South Africa.
Paul was part of the leadership that took this business to a team of 3 to a team of 200. After 10 years of online-only, moved into physical retail space and now have 7 stores around South Africa.
Paul’s current focus is namesandfaces.com. They make visual directories for organizations that have more people that one can comfortably remember.
Namesandfaces.com is a Y Combinator, Accel and Slack Fund backed company.
Paul was born and raised in South Africa but now lives with his family in SanFrancisco and his team is split between South Africa and San Francisco so Paul knows a thing or two about running remote teams and cultures.
Paul is a super nice guy a great storyteller and an impressive entrepreneur.
Welcome Paul, super excited to have you on the show today.
You can get hold of Paul here:
Twitter: @paulgalatis
email: paul@namesandfaces.com
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project or an episode, please do:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
hello@nona.digital
https://www.nona.digital
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Today my guest is Rob Rawson who is one impressive guy.
Rob and I explore bootstrapping to scale, insourcing vs outsourcing your tech team, the value of remote work, building products that solve real problems, and a lot more.
Rob studied and trained as a medical doctor and practiced for 3 years in Australia. While still studying and living with his parents Rob got his first taste of being an entrepreneur and there is a story about this coming later.
Rob has built many businesses some of which include a competitor to WhatsApp, a site to help people improve their lie detection skills, an advertising agency and an SEO agency.
Rob is also a real estate investor in the US market.
He has experienced many failures and much success and one of the things that struck me when I first met him was his humility and calm demeanour despite an obviously impressive track record and capability.
Robs’ main focus now and for the past while has been timedoctor.com, a SaaS business that helps with time tracking and productivity for remote teams. Rob has built this business to revenues of over $10m more than 8000 customers and with growth of over 100% in the past 12 months and he has done all of this with no outside investment. Pretty damn impressive.
Rob is a veteran tech entrepreneur and has got significant experience with building offshore global teams, across marketing, sales, and software development.
You can contact Rob at rob@timedoctor.com and be sure to check out their conference at www.runningremote.com.
If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project or an episode, please do:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
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Today we are going to be exploring the very current topic of whether to insource or outsource your tech team.
My guests today are not really guests but rather two of my business partners and they also happen to be brothers of the Irish variety.
Ed is my co-founder and COO of Nona and has worked on over 200 software projects over his career around the world.
He also holds a degree in Actuarial science and identifies strongly as a ginger.
Dave is the older brother and is the CTO of Nona.
Dave has been programming since ‘91 and has worked with some the worlds leading brands.Dave holds a computer science degree with honours in Semantic Computing.
Dave is my royal straight flush, he gives me the ability to say that I see you and raise you when it comes to tech capability. He makes me look good.
These are two of the smartest and most interesting people that I know and their combined experience is massive so I know that we will get some great value our of today's conversation.
Welcome guys and may the best brother win!
If you enjoyed this episode and want to get in touch:
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Today we will be exploring product design and whether there is a right or a wrong way to design your product from a process perspective.
My guest today is Gord our head of design at Nona and also one of my co-founders so we have been through a lot together.
Gord is an award-winning product designer and has worked on over 200 design projects in his career. He’s also got an Impressive beard and tattoo collection.
Gord recently gave a keynote that was very well received and the topic was around the pitfalls of process when it comes to design.
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