The Founders Live Podcast

Nick Hughes is joined by Alex Stephany from London, founder of Beam. Beam is a community platform to Help a homeless Londoner for the long-term through training, education and employment opportunities. Nick and Alex talk about how Beam provides a mechanism for people to give to the people who need it, but for the money to go towards improving the areas of their life so the individual can actually...

Nick Hughes is joined by Rebecca Clyde who is from Phoenix, AZ and is the CEO of Botco.ai. They are a conversational marketing platform that enables intelligent chat between businesses and their customers. Nick and Rebecca have a wide ranging conversation on the entrepreneurial life, more detail on Botco.ai, how Rebecca got into entrepreneurship and her lessons to first time founders. This is a ca...

Nick Hughes is joined by Stephon McCoy who is from Boston and is the CEO of QuicWit, the world’s most impulsive trivia game. They ask users up to four questions randomly throughout the day and the first user(s) to answer wins a premium prize, no strings attached! Nick and Stephon cover how and why he came up with the trivia concept, how to overtake HQ Trivia, what his entrepreneurial experience ha...

Nick Hughes talks with Kim Defiori CEO of Badges United Foundation. Kim's emotional and inspiring story of going from the brink of suicide to creating a community platform for first responders is truly magic. Kim and Nick talk about how The Badges United Foundation enhances First Responders' overall wellness through exercise, nutrition, and sleep education to prevent the rising suicide r...

Nick Hughes talks with Christopher Damitio, CEO of Iwahai. Christopher is building his mapping startup from Honolulu, Hawaii. This engaging conversation covers Christopher's interesting audio mapping concept, the Ups and Downs In The Land of Paradise, what it's like living and working in the Hawaiian Islands, and Christopher's thoughts about how the Hawaiian startup ecosystem can im...

***The audio quality in this episode is at times a bit low but still a great conversation*** Nick talks with Sam Lillie, CEO of Vinder, an Austin based startup powering the resurgence of Neighbors feeding Neighbors, where people buy, sell and trade local commerce. They touch on how Sam fought to get things started in Washington and how he and his team ended up in Texas. https://www.vinder.com/

Nick Hughes talks with AK Ikwuakor of Elete Styles about startup life, his new company Elete Styles, transitioning from Athlete to Entrepreneur and under-represented founders. AK was the winner of a recent Founders Live Boston event. https://www.eletestyles.com/