The Founders Live Podcast

Nick Hughes is joined by Claudius Mbemba of Seattle, who is the CTO of Neu. Neu is the hassle-free cleaning solution for vacation rentals. Nick and his good friend Claudius have a fun conversation starting with his background as a collegiate athlete and his views on how success in athletics influences entrepreneurship. They then dive into Neu, how they came up with the business, and what challenges and new opportunities the founding team is seeing now due to Covid-19 outbreak, as well as some amazing tips and advice for early stage founders especially with fundraising. This was such an great conversation, we hope it's helpful to you too.
https://www.neucleans.com/

Nick Hughes is joined by Michael Goulden from London who is the CEO of Pinga, which is building a platform to help people get what they want in 15 mins or less. Nick and Michael have a fun chat on the state of the local delivery and logistics industry, what the implications are for future of local commerce as well as security and safety, and the solutions Pinga is bringing to the market to help! Michael also touches on some of his founder lessons and tips he has learned thus far. Check it out!
https://pinga.co.uk/

Nick Hughes is joined by Vikash Gupta of Norecibo from San Antonio, Texas, founder of NoRecibo. NoRecibo is a free receipt management designed to simplify your life. Nick and Vikash chat about how Vikash discovered issues with tracking receipts and making it simple to record them and track them for personal finances. What did he do? Well, he simply decided to learn to code and build the product himself. You will also hear his experience as an entrepreneur balancing his time with family obligations, and some of his tips and lessons he's gained along the way.
https://norecibo.com/

Nick Hughes is joined by Preeti Suri from Seattle, WA, who is the founder and CEO of AdventureTripr. AdventureTripr powers adventures for everyone, connecting you directly with local businesses to book extraordinary experiences. Nick and Preeti enjoy an engaging conversation that starts with them chatting about Seattle and her experience during the initial Covid-19 outbreak, then they talk about her vision of building a travel company and how that is shifting and possibly changing with the current affects of the crisis. This is great conversation full of nuggets of startup wisdom. Check it out.
https://adventuretripr.com/

Nick Hughes is joined by a good friend Julia Freeland who is an author, change strategist and coach from Seattle, WA. Julia is a passionate educator and change coach, who has spent most of her life working to help people break through limiting beliefs and seemingly impenetrable barriers to become better versions of themselves. Her fascination with change started as she emerged from university equipped with a mechanical engineering degree and zero desire to work as an engineer. Fast forward through 6 career reinventions, including 10 years as a full-time mom, and several monumental ass-kickings which forced her to evolve, and she can confidently say now, she is an expert at reinvention and teaching people to dance through change. Nick and Julia jump into an incredible conversation around her new book Take Your Shoes Off First: A story about a simple idea with the power to change everything. They talk about her journey into discovering patterns of change and adversity, and why she ultimately decided to write the book. They touch on why parables are so powerful and why the story of the shoes brings readers into why taking your shoes off first - remove your narrow lens of life - is so important for us to change and evolve. They end by turning the tables where Julia asked a few questions to get Nick's personal perspectives and experience reading the book. This is an incredible episode, and Julia's knowledge around change and 'removing our shoes to allow different perspectives into our lives' is going to be helpful to any entrepreneur. We hope it helps you today!
Book - Take Your Shoes Off First: A story about a simple idea with the power to change everything - https://www.amazon.com/Take-Your-Shoes-Off-First/dp/1737439026
Find it on Indibound as well
https://www.revolveyou.com/