The Midnight Founders Podcast

this weeks episode is a conversation with Kenny Scott who is the founder of CEO of Paramify. He talked about how he dug into the things he hated about his job and how that led him to starting paramify. Sometimes the internal drive to solve a problem is all it takes to start a successful business. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Kenny. 

This weeks episode is a conversation with Cydni Rogers Tetro who among 50 other things, is currently serving as the CEO of Brandless. She holds the record for the largest fundraise led by a women in silicon slopes, but her goal as founder and president of the Women Tech Council is to help other women crush that record. She prides herself on developing customer experience strategies, go to market p...

Romney is a startup junkie he has been a founder as well as joined founders as a CEO to help the founder focus on what they are good at. He has a very unique perspective and shared some incredible insights for founders. He fell in love with the idea of selling products and has helped build multiple consumer product companies. He loves joining companies that are taking on goliaths and disrupting in...

This week's episode is a conversation with Logan Nicholson who is the CEO of LocalEyes. Logan has learned some valuable lessons along his entrepreneurial journey and has found a lot of value from putting pressure on himself to accomplish his goals. We hope you enjoy the conversation with Logan. 

This week's episode is with John Sperry from Halosight. John exited his prior startup InMoment in 2019. He has some great advice for entrepreneurs. He looks back over his career and wishes that he would have started his entrepreneurial journey sooner. If you are thinking about starting a company, this conversation with John may be the nudge you need to make the jump. 

This week’s episode is a conversation with Chris Yadon who is the managing director of Saprea. Chris is using his experience running multiple startups to manage Saprea. He shared great lessons learned throughout his career and drew many parallels between the for profit and non profit companies he has managed. We hope you enjoy this episode! 

This week's episode is a conversation with Paul Brown who is a co-director of the Masters of Business Creation Program at the University of Utah. We talked about his experience going from a philosophy degree to become a venture capitalist. He shared amazing insights from his experience as an angel investor, venture capitalist, board member, and now a professor and the hundreds of companies he has...

In this week's episode, we had a great conversation with Jordan Erskine and Gavin Collier who are the cofounders of Dynamic Blending. They are friends that worked together early on in their careers and then came back together years later to start their business. They talked about the decision they made to double down on themselves instead of taking outside funding, they wanted to maintain the cont...

This week's episode is with John Keller who is the founder of Redlist. He shared about his journey and his desire to make money, but also make the world a better place. He talked about a time walking through Thailand and how impressive it was to him that he could be on the other side of the world but could still find an ice-cold Coca Cola on every street corner. His advice for entrepreneurs is to...

This week's episode is a conversation with Mike Hayes. He has started multiple companies and talked about the importance of not valuing the best deal over picking the right partners when starting a business. Mike had a successful career but made the decision to jump out and start his own business. Like most entrepreneurs he had people around him that doubted his ability to succeed, He talked about...

This week we had a great conversation with Justin Rae. He has been a serial entrepreneur and has started and run companies across multiple industries. He shared some great lessons about things that have worked and also about how to balance the grind of entrepreneurship and understanding when to pull the plug on an idea that isnt working.  Hope you enjoy our conversation with Justin. 

This week we had a great conversation with Derrin Hill from RevRoad. Derrin talked about his experience growing up on a farm and the impact that has had on his career. He talked about his journey and the multiple companies that he has started and run which lead him to the idea to start RevRoad. He shared great advice and lessons he has learned throughout his career. 

This week's episode is a conversation with Jordan Oborn from GYVR Hub. He is creating a business hub for small businesses that includes fractional warehouse and office space. He has spent most of his career involved in entrepreneurship in some regard. He is an entrepreneur because of the flexibility it provides. he embodies the midnight founder mentality and isn't afraid of the hard work it requir...

This week's episode was a great conversation with the founder of Pitch 59. Jeff learned early on in his career that business is all about relationships and he wanted to create a better way for people and companies to tell their story to potential customers and that is how pitch 59 was born. 

This week's episode is a great conversation with Brenda Anderson the Founder and CEO of Jipe. She is revolutionizing the job search industry for entry level jobs. She talked about how a sudden brain tumor altered the course of her life and helped her recognize her inner strength, and gave her the courage to take the steps she needed to take to start Jipe. 

This week's episode is a conversation with a husband wife duo Kason and Claire. Kason was headed to med school when Claire let him know she thought he would be an amazing entrepreneur, that was all the motivation he needed to make the jump. We all should surround ourselves with people like Claire that are willing to share candid feedback and also give us the motivation to take the next step in the...

We had a great conversation this week with Zack Oates who is the Founder and CEO of Ovation. He shared some great stories from his entrepreneurial journey. He had some great advice for founders about really focusing in on your target customer and making sure that you get really good at being the solution for that one customer. we hope you enjoy getting to know Zack and learning more about his comp...

We had a great conversation with the founders of Primo Golf Apparel.  Matty, Jason, and Jordan are cousins who all loved the game of golf and decided that they wanted to start a company around the game they love. They hit the market at a great time and had a really fun story about the explosive growth the company has seen over the past two years. We hope you enjoy our discussion with Matty, Jason,...

This week's episode is a conversation with Scott Peterson who is a serial entrepreneur and is currently serving as the Chief Academic Officer at Rev Road. He talked about the impact his background in sales had on his career as an entrepreneur. Scott talked about how important the leadership team is to an early stage company. He talked about how important Grit is to an entrepreneurial journey becau...

This week's episode is a conversation with Breanna Hale who is the director of the Entrepreneurship Institute at Utah Valley University. We talked about her entrepreneurial journey as well as the process of being an intrapreneur in her role at the university. She had a lot of great advice for entrepreneurs and a lot of fun stories of student entrepreneurs. Breanna is doing incredible things to ass...

This week's episode is a conversation with Johnny Hanna who is the CEO and Co-Founder at Homie. We talked about the entrepreneurial spirit that led him to Homie even though he knew up front the challenges he knew he would face on the journey. He had some great advice for entrepreneurs about taking care of yourself and your mental health. This was another great episode and we hope you enjoy our dis...

This week's episode is a conversation with Stephen Colvin the CEO and founder of Bobelo. Stephen has been entrepreneurial since he was a kid. He spent some time in his career working in the beverage industry and was frustrated by the global problems that exist because of all of the wasted bottles and cans. He has been dedicated to solving that problem while still providing the people with what the...

This week's episode is a conversation with Colby Bauer the Founder and CEO of Thread. He shared his entrepreneurial journey that started as a neighborhood circus act, doing backflips for the neighbors for tips. He shared about the beginning of Thread while he was in college at BYU Hawaii, he lost his wallet in the ocean while learning how to surf and decided that the world needed a better solution...

This weeks episode is a conversation with Jib Hunt the CEO of Kemper Snowboards. Jib was on the ski team In the late 80’s, when he was introduced to this new sport called snowboarding. He was hooked day one and has never looked back. We had a great conversation about his career as a professional rider and his latest adventure bringing Kemper and the 80’s snowboarding vibe back. We hope you enjoy o...