James Farnfield

The Everyday Founder

Business EN ↓ 32 episodes

Welcome to the everyday founder podcast with James Farnfield 👋🏽 James chats with everyday founders and ask them questions across a range of serious and lighthearted topics. It’s time that we celebrate those everyday founders doing incredible things. Celebrating their successes, learning from their journey and supporting their future. Enjoy 🚀 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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James Farnfield

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How this incredible female founder met Obama, Zuck and exited her tech business | Mai Medhat 28.03.2024 1:01:21

Guest: Mai Medhat from Ginni.ai LinkedIn: in/maimedhat/ Mai is a software engineer from Egypt and wanted to be a part of the startup ecosystem but nothing really existed. After a chance meeting with her future co-founder Nihal at an event they started Eventtus. 10 years of building this event tech platform to a global force they sold the business to Bevy a US-tech giant. Along the way Mai also had...

Serial exited founder now growing SeedLegals to global expansion | Anthony Rose 21.03.2024 53:00

Guest: Anthony Rose from SeedLegals LinkedIn: in/anrose/ Anthony moved to the UK to lead the building of the BBC iPlayer, before delving into entrepreneurship. After starting and selling 2 separate businesses he moved on to the startup legals space where over the past 8 years he has been building SeedLegals - a legaltech scaleup where 1 in 3 of all UK fundraising rounds are completed through the p...

This founder has built a recruitment empire from his podcast | Alfie Whattam 14.03.2024 55:19

Guest: Alife Whattam from Alfa LinkedIn: in/alfiegeorgewhattam/ Alfie started his career as a magician whilst travelling the world, before landing in London and starting a career as a recruiter. A year before leaving his role to start Alfa, he started a podcast. 150 episodes later and zero outbound sales calls later, he has found success. CONNECT WITH James: - LinkedIn: /in/james-farnfield/ SUBSCR...

Running a $21M ARR tech business and how his accountant stole from him | Mark McDermott 07.03.2024 35:24

Guest: Mark McDermott from ScreenCloud LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mhmcdermott/ Mark built a digital product studio for 17 years working with BBC, British Airways, Microsoft and Nestlé. Today, running ScreenCloud a digital signage product which he has built to $20m ARR and over 120 employees. CONNECT WITH James: - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-farnfield/ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAS...

£30M founder now building new tech business that is growing fast | Nick Telson 26.02.2024 40:59

Guest: Nick Telson-Sillett from Trumpet LinkedIn: /in/nick-telson/ Nick grew and then sold DesignMyNight for £30m and today is a serial investor and second time founder in a sales-tech SaaS called trumpet. CONNECT WITH James: - LinkedIn: /in/james-farnfield/ OUR SPONSORS: - Done-for-you LinkedIn media company: shakecontent dot com 00:00 - Start 01:05 - Nick introducing trumpet 02:15 - pitch deck v...

How a serial entrepreneur and investor has battled with bipolar | James Roycroft-Davis 26.02.2024 36:22

James built and exited a pet tech business called Luna, before starting his latest venture Baseline, a tech-led bipolar support app. He himself attempting to take his own life twice before being diagnosed with bipolar disease and managing his entrepreneurial life with limited care support. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Selling for £2.4m at 25, raising £8m by 30 all whilst managing ADHD | Roei Samuel 25.02.2024 45:20

James Farnfield talks with Roei Samuel from Connectd LinkedIn: /in/roei-samuel/ From selling a business at 25 for £2.4 million to raising £8m+ with Connectd and expanding into the US market. CONNECT WITH James: - LinkedIn: /in/james-farnfield/ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: - Spotify: - Apple: OUR SPONSORS: - Done-for-you LinkedIn media company: shakecontent dot com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...