The Midnight Founders Podcast

John Sperry - Halosight

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. 

Chris Yadon - Saprea

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! 

Paul Brown

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 been involved with over the years. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Paul. 

Jordan Erskine and Gavin Collier - Dynamic Blending

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 control and ownership of their company and that risk has paid off big for them as their company has grown. 

John Keller

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 step up to the plate, more at-bats will improve your odds to succeed. 

Mike Hayes - Bryton Power

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 using that as fuel to drive him to work harder and make sure to prove them wrong. We hope you enjoy this week’s episode.
 

Justin Rae - Cinch

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. 

Derrin Hill - RevRoad

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. 

Jordan Oborn - GYVR Hub

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 requires to be a successful entrepreneur. he had some great words of advice for taking the next step in your entrepreneurial journey.  we hope you enjoy this weeks episode. 

Phillip Chipping