The Founders Lounge

Charlie is a seasoned entrepreneur, mainly focused on mobile app opportunities. He started his first business straight out of university. One of his next businesses, Kite, was acquired for 10s of millions of Pounds by Canon. Now, he’s building Joy, the most trusted parenting platform that provides essential information, memories, and services for young families.   In this episode, we talk about th...

Timothy Armoo was the founding CEO of the innovative influencer marketing agency Fanbytes which he started when he was 21 and sold for tens of millions of pounds when he was 27.   Timo started his first company at 14 and his second at 17 which he sold 11 months later to Horizon Media. He was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his achievements in media and marketing. He’s been featured by BBC...

Oliver Anwar helps entrepreneurs and high performers get to the best shape of their life with his coaching programs.    If you’re interested in fitness & lifestyle for peak performance, running a coaching business, personal brand, and audience building, then you’ll love this episode.   In this episode, we talk about: Oliver’s story from a regular fitness trainer to an online coach for high perform...

Kosta Kolev is the Co-Founder of Calliper, a data analytics platform making data accessible and actionable for every team.  Kosta has built and launched new businesses and products across London, Hong Kong, and Berlin. He also works as an advisor helping startups and corporates overcome product, strategy, and growth challenges.    If you’re interested to learn about product management, building hi...

Conor Svensson is the founder and CEO of Web3 Labs where they work with organizations to define and execute their Web3 strategy. Their clients include Microsoft, J.P. Morgan, and Vodafone. He’s also the author of the best-selling book, the Blockchain Innovator’s Handbook, and host of the Web3 Innovators podcast.   If you’re interested in learning more about web3 and the opportunities that blockcha...

Ben Fletcher is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the business. He’s currently the Co-Founder & CEO of The Mothership where they buy eCommerce businesses and grow them into the most desirable brands of tomorrow. After selling his eCommerce wine business in 2013, he founded the Fast Growth Icons series of events, bringing experienced entrepreneurs together to get practical...

Vedika Jain is the Chief of Staff at Weekend Fund, which she runs together with Ryan Hoover, the founder of Product Hunt. They write $100k-300k checks into early-stage startups around the world across consumer and B2B. To date they have invested in over 120 startups, they have over 350 Limited Partners and they run the whole fund as a two-person team. Some of their notable investments include Inte...

Matt Kelly is a serial eCommerce entrepreneur. At 24 he built and scaled two brands to £10M in annual revenue and was living his best life. Until everything crashed as a result of too fast scaling and a number of unfortunate events. He had to sell his Ferrari, and move out of his penthouse apartment in central London and he was struggling with his mental well-being. But after a few months, he pick...

James McKinven is an “indie hacker” trying to figure out how to make a living online, doing what he loves. He runs Podpanda, a premium, done for you, podcast production studio. He runs the Indie Bites podcast, where he speaks to indie founders about how they've started their profitable internet businesses. And he has a few other small businesses, including an online course about podcasting and a h...

Dan Murray-Serter is a serial entrepreneur, #1 podcaster, angel investor community builder, and an avid mental health advocate. With over 50 investments he’s one of the UK’s top angel investors, predominantly active in health & wellness, sustainability, the sharing economy, and Web3 space. His focus currently is building Heights - a brain care company currently valued at £30.000.000.   In this epi...

Peter-Jan "PJ" Celis is the founder and CEO of Judge.me - a product reviews app for Shopify. Judge.me is the #1 app on the Shopify app store, which is impressive. But what’s even more impressive is that PJ achieved this without any external investments (many of his competitors did), with a relatively small team of ~50 people (many of his competitors have 100s), and without doing any marketing.   ...

Adam McCann is the Founder and CEO of Claimer, one of the most disruptive and innovative businesses in the UK, according to Startups 100. Adam started his first business whilst at uni - a website that published news and reviews about video games. He grew this to become one of the largest video game sites in the world. He then sold it and joined the acquiring company as a co-founder. Two years late...

Neyts (Nejc) Zupan is a cofounder of Niteo - a decade-old SaaS studio building solutions for small businesses. Niteo started as an agency, but over time they started to focus only on their own products. They tested over 150 ideas, some were successful, some not so much. In this episode, we mostly talked about one particular project that ultimately failed after they spent almost 1.000.000 EUR on de...

Paul Price is is a co-founder of Top Dog Studios and Top Dog Beach Club - and NFT project that sold out 8000 items when they launched, generating a total volume of around £1M and making it one of the top 25 projects on the OpenSea NFT marketplace at the time.   In this episode, we talked about  Similarities and differences between a web3/NFT business and a web2/regular business How NFT projects ra...

Ben Williams is a former Royal Marines Commando, a published author with Penguin Business and a Co-founder of Loopin - a tool to support and empower employees.    In this episode, we talked about Ben’s beginnings from a dysfunctional family and drug addiction to becoming a Royal Marines Commando Applying lessons from the army to business What is “Commando Mindset” and how anyone can develop it Wha...

Jeremy Moser is the CEO of Userp, an SEO agency that he scaled from 0 to $1.000.000 in ARR (annual recurring revenue) in just one year. They’ve worked with brands like Freshworks, ActiveCampaign, Monday.com, Robinhood, etc. He also owns a SaaS business called Wordable and he occasionally writes for Entrepreneur magazine.   In this episode, we talked about how to start an agency, how to increase an...

Ash Phillips is the founder of Diffrnt, which is a startup accelerator that doesn’t take equity and connects a global community of founders. He’s also a startup advisor, a board member at Ecologi, an angel investor with Ada Ventures, and he wears a few other hats.   In this episode we discussed Ash’s entrepreneurial journey, what are some of the most common mistakes that founders make, how to get...

Daniel grew LegitCheck.app to 10M+ all-time users and over £200k in revenue with 0 marketing spend when he was just 23 years old. Currently, his main focus is building a no-code SaaS business Simple.ink. He’s also running the SaaS subreddit, hosting “The Usual SaaSpects” podcast and regularly tweeting about the things that he’s building. --- ➤ Please subscribe & share if you liked the episode ❤ ➤...

Callum McKeefery is the founder and CEO of Reviews.io, Fullpicture.io & Poet.so. In a highly competitive market of online reviews, he managed to bootstrap his business to £10M in revenue with over 65 employees globally. In the episode, he explains how they started the business, where he sees opportunities today, and how a self-funded business can compete against giants like Trustpilot with £100M+...

Moritz Braatz is the founder and CEO of Noah - a London-based e-commerce company selling starter kits. Their vision is to empower customers to start something new and help them navigate the first steps of their new endeavors. Noah has been bootstrapped and profitable from the start, however, the two founders have big ambitions and decided to raise over £6M in VC funding to date to fuel their growt...

James Camp is a serial entrepreneur, growth expert, and startup mentor. He sold his largest business, a strategy consulting firm, in 2020 for $31 million. Since then he has been focusing mostly on flipping websites. He typically buys content websites for a few thousand dollars, increases their value, and then sells them for significantly more. In the episode we talk about his exact website flippin...

Matthew Stafford has been an angel investor since 2014. He is the creator of 9others, a network of 4,500+ entrepreneurs in 45+ cities that brings people together to share a meal and solve business problems. He also writes The Education of An Angel Investor newsletter. --- ➤ Please subscribe & share if you liked the episode ❤ ➤ Follow for business ideas & stories: https://twitter.com/MaticJ ➤ Matic...

Antti Virolainen describes himself as an adventurous entrepreneur. He’s the co-founder of a Helsinki-based startup Sharetribe, often described as “the Shopify for marketplace businesses”. Over the years Sharetribe became a well-known brand among entrepreneurs. What makes Shartribe especially interesting is that the founders are not afraid of taking unconventional approaches to funding and culture-...

Zelia Leong started her career in the controversial yet highly ambitious European “startup factory” Rocket Internet. After that, she co-founded a “surprise trips” startup Anywhr, which she was running successfully for a few years until they had to put it on hold during the Covid19 pandemic. That’s when the idea for her current startup, PraisePal, was born. PraisePal is a workplace recognition and...

Elijah currently works as a Regional Marketing Director at Wolt. He previously worked in senior growth and marketing roles at some of the fastest-growing startups in the world, such as Deliveroo, Uber, and WorldRemit. He also started his own craft beer distribution startup which he scaled to $1M in sales in just one year, without any paid advertising, and then sold it. --- ➤ Please subscribe & sha...