How Not to be a Founder
How Not to be a Founder
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🎙 How Not to Be a Founder – The Darkly Funny Podcast About Startup Failure 🎙💀 Startups are hard. Failing is harder. But at least we can laugh about it. 💀The brutally honest podcast exploring the dark, funny, and painfully real side of startups.Forget the LinkedIn flexes—this is where founders share their biggest mistakes, worst decisions, and absolute dumpster fire moments. It’s raw, vulnerable, and laced with enough dark humour to make the chaos bearable.
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Examines themes of startup failure, personal sacrifice, and the challenges of entrepreneurship with episodes like the dynamic between visionary founders and integrators, highlighting the importance of operational discipline and the raw stories behind mistakes often hidden from public view.
🎙 How Not to Be a Founder – The Darkly Funny Podcast About Startup Failure 🎙
💀 Startups are hard. Failing is harder. But at least we can laugh about it. 💀
The brutally honest podcast exploring the dark, funny, and painfully real side of startups.
Forget the LinkedIn flexes—this is where founders share their biggest mistakes, worst decisions, and absolute dumpster fire moments. It’s raw, vulnerable, and laced with enough dark humour to make the chaos bearable.
£80k in week one… then the VAT bill hit.
Paddy McCubbin walked away from a cushy director role to co-launch WeDo Group with two friends.
Day-three revenues smashed £80,000, but a four-month wait for a VAT number froze the cash, and an impulse order of 40 adjustable desks soaked up the runway.
In this episode, we unpack the un-Instagrammable side of a “rocket-ship” start-up:
- The Hacker–Hippie–Hustler trio – why three very different co-founders trump going solo.
- HMRC limbo – billing clients you can’t invoice and the domino effect on cash-flow.
- Buying mistakes – the stand-up-desk fiasco & other ego-driven purchases.
- Keeping momentum – rapid-fire idea testing (and killing) inside a recruitment scale-up.
- Fractional firepower – hiring a part-time CFO and CMO before you think you can afford them.
- Authentic brand – flip-flops in a CFO pitch, paddle-board meetings and why “fake it till you make it” kills trust.
If you’ve ever wondered what happens after the champagne-spraying LinkedIn post, this is the real balance sheet.
Listen in for hard numbers, hard lessons, and a reminder that the fires you fight are often the ones you lit yourself.
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