Venture Lab with Luis
Venture Lab with Luis
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The greatest opportunities are often hidden behind closed doors. This podcast opens them up.
After seven years in a different industry, last year I developed a strange obsession with startups and venture capital. I consumed every podcast, video, and book I could find.
And while entrepreneurship does not need another podcast, it desperately needs transparency, accessibility, and conversations that go beyond funding rounds and exits.
Venture Lab tells the personal stories of Europe's most exceptional investors and most innovative founders.
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The podcast delves into venture capital intricacies, startup stories, and the personal journeys of investors, with episodes revealing insights on topics like building successful funds, the broken VC model, and the skills essential for founders, including talks with figures like Christian Nagel on top-performing funds and Ondrej Bartos discussing the future of investing
The greatest opportunities are often hidden behind closed doors. This podcast opens them up.
After seven years in a different industry, last year I developed a strange obsession with startups and venture capital. I consumed every podcast, video, and book I could find.
And while entrepreneurship does not need another podcast, it desperately needs transparency, accessibility, and conversations that go beyond funding rounds and exits.
Venture Lab tells the personal stories of Europe’s most exceptional investors and most innovative founders.
Tim Chong, founder and CEO of Yonder, reveals how he went from a Single room apartment in London during COVID lockdown to building one of Europe's fastest-growing consumer fintechs competing against billion-dollar incumbents like American Express, Visa, and Mastercard. We cover the hidden cost of the founder journey, surviving Silicon Valley Bank's collapse with £12M trapped, and why ”foodies in London” beat big TAM thinking.In this episode, Tim shares:- The real price of startup life that nobody talks about. – Silicon Valley Bank collapsed with £12M in their account right after closing Series A- The sticky tape to scaling framework: how to sequence startup problems correctly- Being Optimist AND Paranoid: the leadership paradox every founder must embrace- Finding product-market fit is like giving birth: you can't fast-track it with capital- Risk assessment: go for capped downside, uncapped upside- Founder vs CEO: why they're different jobs and how to learn bothThis is for founders building consumer products, raising pre-seed/seed, battling incumbent competitors, struggling with work-life balance, or questioning the 10-year commitment.Tim Chong | Founder & CEO, Yonder Previous: Media background, worked on M-Pesa in Kenya, management consultant Yonder: Consumer fintech credit card with city discovery, launched 2021, tens of thousands of customers
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